President Donald Trump says the U.S. army struck three websites in Iran, immediately becoming a member of Israel’s effort to decapitate the nation’s nuclear program in a dangerous gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s menace of reprisals that might spark a wider regional battle.
The choice to immediately contain the U.S. comes after greater than every week of strikes by Israel on Iran which have moved to systematically eradicate the nation’s air defenses and offensive missile capabilities, whereas damaging its nuclear enrichment amenities. However U.S. and Israeli officers have stated that American stealth bombers and a 30,000-lb. bunker buster bomb they alone can carry provided the very best likelihood of destroying heavily-fortified websites linked to the Iranian nuclear program buried deep underground.
Iran’s state-run IRNA information company early Sunday acknowledged an assault on the nation’s Fordo nuclear website.
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