In a dramatic announcement that has shocked the world and the Middle East, former President Donald Trump has declared that the U.S. is now directly engaged in the growing confrontation between Israel and Iran, but with bombs this time, not just words.
Trump boasted on his social media outlet Truth Social of the “very successful attack” he had launched on three of Iran’s most important nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, although he misspelled the last one. The strikes, conducted by American planes, represent the first direct military involvement by the United States in the expanding Israel-Iran conflict.
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“Everyone is coming home,” Trump wrote in his post, praising the pilots and staff involved. “A BOMB is dropped on the site, 3,2,1......Last night, the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice,” the tweets said in part...CONGRATULATIONS to our great Military, Soldiers, and all Americans,” President Trump wrote in one tweet alongside an image of the U.S. flag.
The Fordow site, deep in the mountains south of Tehran, has long been seen as nearly impregnable. To hit it, American forces would have probably employed the GBU-57 “bunker buster,” a 30,000-pound beast of a bomb that only a B-2 stealth bomber can deliver. Trump says the mission was flawless, with all planes flying out of Iran unmolested.
While Israel has been bombing Iran’s military and nuclear facilities for over a week, officials in Tel Aviv have openly acknowledged that only the U.S. has the firepower to hit hardened facilities such as Fordow. Trump’s green light seems to respond to that call — and it’s already stirring a furious reaction.
Iran, which insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, has vowed to retaliate. And the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, cautioned that American intervention would exact an “irreparable” cost on the United States. That warning may already be coming to pass, as Iranian forces in Syria have struck Israeli targets in waves of drone and missile attacks. Some have been intercepted, and others haven’t.
Trump, who once vowed to stay out of new Middle East entanglements, sounds like the hawk in the room. He has demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender” and asserted that he owns Iranian airspace, all scripted words that hardly sound statesmanlike.
No ground troops have been deployed yet. But with tensions mounting and casualties on both sides, the world waits with bated breath. One false step, one miscalculation, and this local firefight could escalate dramatically.
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