President Donald Trump announced Saturday evening that U.S. military forces had carried out airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
According to CNN, the decision ends a weeklong period of deliberation over whether to join Israel’s campaign against Tehran—marking a major escalation and drawing the United States deeper into the growing Middle East conflict.
Trump made the announcement via his social media platform, Truth Social, stating that the mission had been completed successfully. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace,” he wrote.
This marks the first time since the 1979 Iranian Revolution that a sitting U.S. president has deployed air force assets to strike key nuclear sites within Iran.
The decision to target the Fordow facility—long viewed as a red line by past administrations—signals Trump’s direct involvement in a crisis he once sought to resolve through diplomacy.
As Trump weighed his options, Iran had vowed a forceful response to any act of U.S. aggression, prompting the mobilization of American military assets across the region in anticipation of possible retaliation.
