Washington — Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine are set to carry a information convention Sunday morning to offer updates on President Trump’s choice to strike a trio of Iranian nuclear websites.
Mr. Trump introduced Saturday night time that the U.S. had introduced moves in opposition to Iranian nuclear websites at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. He stated in a nationwide cope with later Saturday evening that the websites “had been utterly and utterly obliterated.”
Flanked by way of Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance on the White Space, the president described the moves as a “impressive army good fortune” and warned of “a long way better” assaults if Iran does no longer “make peace.”
“If peace does no longer come temporarily, we can cross after the ones different objectives with precision, velocity and ability, maximum of them can also be taken out in a question of mins,” he stated. “There is no army on this planet that can have accomplished what we did this night, no longer even shut. There hasn’t ever been an army that might do what happened just a bit whilst in the past.”
Two senior Protection Division officers showed to CBS Information that 3 American B-2 bombers have been used to strike Fordo early Sunday native time, with each and every of the ones B-2s armed with 2 U.S.-produced “bunker-buster” bombs referred to as the GBU-57 Huge Ordnance Penetrators, or MOPs — bombs so heavy that they may handiest be dropped by way of a B-2. Â
Fordo, the web page of a high-grade uranium enrichment facility that world mavens imagine is essential to Iran’s nuclear program, is buried virtually 300 ft underneath a mountain and used to be believed to be safe by way of important air defenses. The MOP used to be noticed as the most productive probability at destroying the Fordo facility.Â
