The military operation was publicly prepared, but the bombing took place without direct warning. Saturday evening (American time, early on Sunday in Iran), President Donald Trump reported on his own Truth Social website, that the United States attacked three nuclear goals in Iran. His Air Force has “dropped a full load of bombs at the most important location: Fordow. All aircraft are safely on the way home.”
The president congratulated his armed forces with a successful mission and proclaimed, in capital, “now it’s time for peace.” As if the direct military conflict between the United States and Iran has ended with this instead of.
Trump is proud that no big new wars were started during his first presidency. He promised his voters that he would not interfere with complicated international conflicts, but only to act in American interest. Now he comes to the rescue ally of Israel in a way that his predecessors have always refused. Israel does not have the ‘bunkerbuster bombs’ that can damage the underground Iranian uranium enrichment in Fordow.
It is unclear how much the Americans have done with their massive ordnance penetrator airplane bomb (six meters long and almost 14 tons heavy). According to American media, six would have been fired. Core installations in Natanz and Isfahan have also been touched, as confirmed from Iran.
‘Peace or tragedy for Iran’
In a speech of five minutes, later in the evening from the White House, Trump said: “There will be peace or tragedy for Iran.” If the country, led by Ayatollah Khamenei, does not quickly proceed to peace talks, “we attack other goals, with precision, speed and skill.” Trumps Vice President JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Foreign Minister and Interim-National Security Advisor, and Defense Minister Pete Hegseeth were nodding and frowning behind the president during the speech.
The destructive American attacks were not encouraged by recent Iranian acceleration in developing a nuclear bomb or even the suspicion thereof. Trumps own intelligence chef, Tulsi Gabbard, said he had no indications for that. The US, on the other hand, followed the wish of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been calling for thirty years that Iran can have an atomic weapon.
Opportunity seems to be the main motive. The bombing on Iran, who started Israel more than a week ago, make a moment when Irans Fazallen in the region – Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen – are on their backs. Moreover, the battle with Iran distracts from the international indignation about the genocidal retaliation war in Gaza.
Trumps acting has nothing to do with his ‘America First’ pretensions. Iran is not a direct danger to the United States. Many of Trumps supporters and minister now wring in turns to pretend that the president responds consistently instead of impulsively.
“Save us the lazy chair nagging and trust our supreme commander in the coming hours,” wrote Maga star Charlie Kirk. The Republican Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs, said: “This war is the war of Israel, not our war. (…) There will be no American troops on the spot in Iran.” The political trauma of the Iraq war still feel Republicans.
Netanyahu praises Trump
The Israeli Prime Minister is now very happy. “History will show that President Trump has acted to make the most dangerous regime in the world and the most dangerous weapons in the world harmless,” said Netanyahu.
The next Mission of the US is the evacuation of Americans from Israel and the rest of the Middle East, because it is unclear which retaliation Iran is planning. There are around 40,000 American soldiers in the Middle East who can be targeted, in addition to all kinds of American citizens.