President Donald Trump on Saturday night announced American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran, with the U.S. officially entering the war more than a week after Israel’s initial attack.
Trump disclosed the bombing on social media shortly before 8 p.m. ET, saying that a “full payload” of bombs had been dropped on Fordo, the underground facility considered critical to the country’s nuclear program, and two other sites, and that “all planes are now outside of Iran air space” and on their way home.
Trump and his administration have been considering U.S. involvement following Israel’s attack in Iran on June 12, with specific interest from Israeli officials in the American-made ‘bunker buster’ bomb, which can penetrate deep, fortified targets like Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, buried about 300 feet underground. Only U.S.-made B-2 warplanes can carry these bombs, though it is uncertain whether they were used in the attack.
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