The Israel-Iran war has taken a new twist as President Donald Trump of the United States (US) announced that US has successfully bombed three nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan.
In a series of messages on his social media handle, Truth Social, the US President on Saturday night, said that the objective of the strikes was to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity and neutralise its nuclear threat.
“A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime Fordow Natanz and Esfahan,” Trump said.
“Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” he added.
The US leader, who had made several overtures to Iran to make a “deal” about its nuclear programme, described the strikes as a huge military success.
“Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
”Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier,” the US President also noted.
He warned that “there will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days”.
He stressed that there were many targets left, adding, “tonight’s was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal.
“But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill; most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.”
Trump boasted about the superiority of the U.S. military, saying no military in the world could have done what the U.S. military did in Iran.
“There’s no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
“There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.
“All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. 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.
“NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!”
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his reaction to the US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, hailed Trump for taking a “bold decision” on Iran.
“Congratulations President Trump, your bold decision to target Iran’s nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history,” Netanyahu posted.
Recall that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a phone call condemned Israeli attacks on Iran and urged a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
In an interaction with Journalists on Thursday, Russian foreign ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, “We would like to particularly warn Washington against military intervention in the situation.”
Any US military action “would be an extremely dangerous step with truly unpredictable negative consequences”, she added.
She said that Putin and Xi “strongly condemn Israel’s actions”.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Moscow and Beijing believed the end to the hostilities “should be achieved exclusively by political and diplomatic means”.
