Iran threatens US with ‘everlasting consequences' after strikes on nuclear sites
The US has attacked three nuclear sites in Iran in what President Trump has described as a spectacular military success.
Three sites were targeted, two using the world's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas says the strikes are a "grave violation" of international law and will have "everlasting consequences".
The operation was codenamed Midnight Hammer and involved more than 125 aircraft.
At 2:10 am local time, the US dropped the first bunker buster bomb on Fordow, a Uranium enrichment site, hidden in a remote mountainside vital to Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The US then hit two other nuclear sites, Natanz, another Uranium enrichment facility, and Isfahan, a significant research base understood to store much of Iran's enriched uranium.
Isfahan was struck with Tomahawk missiles launched from a US submarine, rather than B-2 stealth bombers.
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