United States enter a war front
United States President Donald Trump announced this Saturday night (already dawn on Sunday in Portugal) that US military forces launched bombs in three Iranian nuclear facilities, ending a period of one week’s deliberation on adherence to the Israeli campaign against Tehorão and pushing the United States directly to a growing conflict in the Middle East.
“We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear facilities in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. All planes are now outside Iranian airspace,” Trump wrote on Truth Social social network.
Trump added that “a total load of pumps was launched on the main installation, Fordow.”
The ruler ended his message with an appeal to peace.
“There is no other army in the world who could have done it,” Trump wrote. “Now it’s time for peace!”
The president announced in a subsequent publication that would go to the nation at 10 pm (three in the morning in Lisbon).
“This is a historic moment for the United States of America, Israel and the world. Iran must now agree to end this war. Thank you!” Trump wrote in a public social network publication. He also republished a publication on social networks that said: “Fordow disappeared.
The decision to directly attack Iran significantly increases tensions and represents one of the most important choices of Trump’s second term. The debate on whether to directly attack Iran has divided Trump’s political coalition, with high concerns among some members of the Republican base that intervention could drag the US to a new prolonged conflict.
It’s the first time in several decades – since the Iranian revolution in 1979 – that an American president mobilizes Air Force resources to attack important facilities in the country.
B-2 American bombers were used in the operation to attack the three locations, according to a source familiar with the subject.
B-2 bombers are the only aircraft capable of transporting the “Massive Ordinance Penetrator”, which experts have highlighted as the only type of pump potentially capable of destroying Fordow’s underground nuclear installation in Iran. Each B-2 bomber is able to transport two of these bunker buster pumps.
The decision to specifically attack Fordow’s installation, which successive US presidents considered, but eventually rejected, will now put Trump directly in a growing crisis that he expected to be able to resolve through diplomacy.
The US warned Israel about the attacks before launching them, two sources familiar with CNN said. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also spoke on Saturday night after the attacks, said two sources of the White House.
While Trump pondered his decision, Iran promised to retaliate any US aggression, and US military resources began to focus on the region to prepare for any retaliatory action of Iran.
Trump hopes that attacks will take over the negotiations and, at the moment, do not plan additional US actions within Iran, while pressuring Iranian leaders to “agree to end this war,” according to sources familiar with the matter.
Trump came to believe in recent days that US forces were needed to destroy the highly fortified nuclear facilities of Iran and made the decision when it became clear that diplomacy was still on a standstill.
Although Trump will continue to hope that diplomacy can now continue, US forces in the region are prepared for Iranian retaliation.
Photo at the top: US President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Saturday night, June 21, 2025 (already dawn on Sunday in Lisbon), after the US army attacked three Iranian nuclear and military facilities, joining directly to Israel’s efforts to destroy the country’s nuclear program, while Vice President JD Vance of state Marco Rubio and the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listen. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)
