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The United States launched airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites: Fordow<\/a><\/span>, Natanz<\/a><\/span>, and Isfahan<\/a><\/span>, overnight between June 21 and 22, aimed at disabling Iran’s nuclear capabilities.\n<\/p>\n

The strike, designated Operation Midnight Hammer by the U.S. military, was ordered by President Donald Trump<\/a> and announced late Saturday night from Washington. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the first bombs were dropped on the Fordow site at approximately 6:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (2240 UTC) on Saturday, as part of a coordinated strike involving seven B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.\n<\/p>\n

Tomahawk missiles<\/a><\/span> were fired from a U.S. Navy submarine, and B-2 stealth bombers, after an 18-hour flight from the United States with support from fighter escorts and refueling aircraft, dropped a total of fourteen 30,000-pound GBU-57\/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)<\/a><\/span> bunker buster bombs. According to Air Force General Dan Caine<\/a><\/span>, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/a><\/span>, this marked the first operational use of the GBU-57. During a press briefing, General Caine said he agreed with President Donald Trump’s assessment that “no other military in the world could have done this,” and praised the mission as a demonstration of the United States’ “unmatched reach, coordination and capability.”\n<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. Department of Defense<\/a><\/span>, the operation included deception tactics involving decoy aircraft flying west over the Pacific Ocean to conceal the true direction and intent of the main strike package.\n<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a><\/span> stated the mission was not intended as a regime change effort, but rather a precision operation “to neutralize the threats to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program and [in support of] the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally, Israel.”\n<\/p>\n

Hours after the strikes, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi<\/a><\/span> condemned the U.S. action, saying the time for diplomacy had ended and that Iran had the right to defend itself. “The warmongering, a lawless administration in Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far reaching implications of its act of aggression,” Araghchi said during a press conference in Turkey, according to the Associated Press<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n

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