US strikes Iran live updates: Trump to address the nation on ‘very successful attack' on three nuclear sites
President Trump has launched the United States into the spiraling Israel-Iran war, ordering strikes on the latter Middle Eastern country in an attempt to crush its nuclear program.
'We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,' Trump announced on Truth Social.
The president's move to get the US involved in Israel's military operations — ongoing since it launched large-scale airstrikes Friday that killed 20 of Iran's senior military leaders — comes after he told reporters Wednesday, 'I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do.'
Iran had warned a US strike would trigger an 'all-out war.'
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