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US planes and missiles bombed three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday, returning safely with President Donald Trump calling for an immediate peace now that, presumably, the work of destroying Tehran’s nuke program is complete.
The prez had warned that he’d be deciding “within two weeks,” and as Iran made it clear Friday, there wasn’t much point in waiting as its leaders began to attempt to give world leaders the runaround again.
And that, as we noted Friday night, obliged Trump “to pay even more heed to the risks of holding off on a decisive intervention.”
He plainly decided on a fast intervention, using US bunker-busters to take out the super hardened Fordow site with two other nuclear facilities. It was an action that as we have stated gives “the best hope for the region to stabilize.”
We’ll see what comes next; Iran’s noise about the United States taking action somehow triggering “all-out war in the region” will hopefully prove to be nothing but characteristic bluster — but US forces in the Middle East will surely be on full alert for days, with bases worldwide on the watch for some sort of terror attack.
Yet most fears of escalation seem ill-founded: Iran has proved unable to do much in the face of daily pounding by Israeli warplanes — a humiliation that all by itself posed a dire threat to the regime. It can’t have been holding much back. --->READ MORE HEREInside Operation Midnight Hammer: US dropped 14 bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s nuclear sites in biggest ever B-2 raid:
The US strike on Iranian nuclear sites — dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer” — was the biggest ever attack by B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, and the longest flight the aircraft have made since 2001.
It also marked the first time that the US used the massive, 15-ton GBU-57 bunker buster bombs in combat, dropping 14 of them on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites.
The highly coordinated strike took Tehran by utter surprise Saturday night, with the terrorist state not launching any attacks at incoming American military personnel, according to Chief of the Joint Staff Gen. Dan Caine.
“We are currently unaware of any shots fired at the US strike package on the way in,” he said during a press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon Sunday. “… We are unaware of any shots fired at the package on the way out.”
“Iran’s fighters did not fly, and it appears that Iran’s surface-to-air missile systems did not see us throughout the mission. We retained the element of surprise,” he added.
Operation Midnight Hammer targeted three of Iran’s nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
The 25-minute operation inside Iran began at 6:40 p.m. ET, with a lead American B-2 bomber dropping two GBU-57 “bunker buster” munitions on the “first of several aim points at Fordow,” Caine said.“The remaining bombers then hit their targets, as well, with a total of 14 MOPs (Massive Ordnance Penetrators) dropped against two nuclear target areas,” he said. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++ Trump and Netanyahu defied the diplomats — and saved the free world+++++
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