The United States completed a “very successful attack” on Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, President Trump announced late Saturday.
“A payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,” Trump said on Truth Social. “All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors.”
“There is not another military in the World that could have done this,” Trump added.
The announcement comes after a fraught two weeks of missile exchanges between Israel and Iran, after Israel first launched an air strike against Iran’s nuclear program earlier in June. Although Trump exhausted diplomatic solutions with Iran, including demanding that Iran dismantle its uranium enrichment capabilities at sites like Fordow, Trump was clear that if Iran refused his terms of zero enrichment, the U.S. would aid Israel in its air strikes.
Intelligence suggests that if U.S. and Israeli forces hadn’t acted to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program, the Iranian regime could produce a nuclear weapon within weeks.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2025
Classic Trump. “Within two weeks.” BOOM.
I’m guessing it was a B-2 strike on Fordow, but information is scanty right now.
President Trump to address the nation at 9 PM CDT.
Developing…
Update: “According to FOX News, six bunker-buster bombs were used during the strike on Fordow, with 30 tomahawk missiles being used on the additional nuclear sites.” That adds up to 180,000 pounds of nuclear proliferation deterrence. That should do the trick….
Update 2: Trump’s speech:
Update 3: Via Instapundit:
FA Fordow Out. pic.twitter.com/GdPctaJBv9
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 22, 2025
Caveat that video posts on recent events can’t necessarily be verified.
Update 4: Jerusalem Post:
Preliminary imagery suggests the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) collapsed large portions of Fordow’s mountain chambers, while cruise missiles shredded key halls at Natanz and Isfahan. The Pentagon believes Iran’s only line capable of enriching uranium to 60 percent is out of action “for years, perhaps permanently.”
Tehran claims “limited damage” and no casualties. Yet, within hours, it launched a token missile volley at Israel, largely intercepted by Arrow and Iron Dome, underscoring how few levers remain when your most prized assets lie in smoking ruin.
For Washington, the operation restores deterrence eroded since Kabul. It tells every would-be proliferator, from North Korea to any rogue in Beirut, that the red line on fissile material is written in concrete-crushing ordnance and carried by allies acting in lockstep.
It also buries an unhealthy strain of isolationism that has crept into the Republican mainstream. Foreign adventurism should never be casual, but equating limited, high-impact strikes with Iraq-style quagmires is a false analogy. In 1981, Menachem Begin destroyed Saddam’s Osirak reactor; in 2007, Ehud Olmert erased Syria’s secret core. Neither mission led to occupation. Both prevented nuclear blackmail. Trump’s decision belongs in that lineage.
Update 5: OK, time to break out this Iranian Hostage Crisis era ditty:
Update 6: More good news: “IRGC Palestinian division chief, an architect of Oct. 7, killed in overnight strike in Iran. An Israeli airstrike in Iran killed Saeed Izadi, the head of the Palestine Corps in the IRGC Quds Force, who funded and armed Hamas ahead of the terror group’s October 7 onslaught as part of a multi-front plan to destroy Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday.”
Update 6: I wasn’t seeing any updates to the Iran Liveuamap site for a couple of hours after the attack, but now they’re catching up. Two tidbits: “Israeli Army Radio reports that the US did not attack the enrichment facility in Isfahan that Israel had attacked, but rather another site that was carved into the mountain where enriched material was hidden.” Also: “CNN, citing a US official: Six B-2 bombers were used to drop 12 bunker-buster bombs on the Fordow site in Iran.” This contradicts Trump, who said that six MOPs were used.
Update 7: Suchomimus has his first video about the strike up. So far he only has footage of the Isfahan strike.
Update 8: Also via Instapundit:
As I’ve long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS.
Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities.
I’m grateful for and salute the finest military in the world. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/YZ0pIaunff
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) June 22, 2025
Update 9: More good news:
The Israeli Air Force successfully struck Iran’s “Cyber Police” headquarters in Tehran, destroying the building.
The organization, known as FATA, is responsible for surveilling Iranian’s online activity and hunting down dissenters. pic.twitter.com/t3RdOxOaZ5
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 21, 2025
Tags: Air Force, B-2, Donald Trump, Fordow, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Isfahan, Israel, Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP), Military, Natanz, nuclear weapons, Operation Midnight Hammer, Saeed Izadi, Suchomimus, video
So far, so good. Two immediate questions:
1) Did we destroy the Iranian inventory of HEU? Was is in the form of metal or gas? (Metallic HEU might be retrievable if it was subject to bombing, hexafluoride gas less so.)
2) Will the Teheran Research Reactor (TRR) be destroyed? It is Iran’s source of Polonium-210. Po-210 enables the construction of reliable, implosion fission devices from small amounts of HEU. This would facilitate construction of a fission device from limited remaining stocks of HEU.
And a question for the future:
A) Did the IRGC seed Teherangles with sleeper cells during Drooling Joe’s open borders carnival?
Two immediate questions:
Will Allah’s viceroy ignore this affront? Can Islam’s theocratic warlord be defeated by The Great Satan’s diabolical machinations? Has the world’s foremost mathematician added one plus one plus one to arrive at the sum of three?
“Has the world’s foremost mathematician added one plus one plus one to arrive at the sum of three?”
So you are not acquainted with the concept of subsidiary questions?
From Newsweek:
“Satellite imagery captured ahead of U.S. strikes on three major Iranian nuclear sites showed “unusual” movement around the entrance to Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility.
Pictures taken on Thursday and Friday showed “unusual truck and vehicular activity” close to the entrance of the underground Fordow complex south of Tehran, satellite imagery firm Maxar said late on Saturday.”
The unstated primary question [1)] was “Do the Iranians still have access to their previously refined HEU? Assumed this was so obvious that it need not be stated. My apologies, I clearly overestimated your intellect.
[…] retaliation for the U.S. obliterating its nuclear weapons program, Iran has launched a missile attack on the Al Udeid Air Base in […]
[…] still more fallout (metaphorical, not literal) from Operation Midnight Hammer, so let’s do a […]
[…] program as non-negotiable, as its been claiming in talks, then regime change is inevitable. As Operation Midnight Hammer showed, both President Trump and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu regard Iran’s nuclear […]