From breitbart.com
President Donald Trump announced Saturday evening that the U.S. had bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, and that he would be addressing the nation at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. He called on Iran to seek peace.
On Thursday, the White House said that Trump had decided to give Iran another two weeks to negotiate, in which he expected Iran to agree to give up its nuclear enrichment program in exchange for an end to the war.
The U.S. had not been directly involved in Israel’s war effort until Saturday, but had sold arms to Israel, had likely shared intelligence with Israel, and had moved strategic naval and air assets closer to the Middle East.
Iran’s response had been defiant, refusing to discuss the future of its nuclear program while under attack.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) applauded Trump’s decision, noting that it also sent a message:
The chairs of the Senate and House intelligence committees also weighed in in support of Trump’s decision:
Trump called Israeli journalist Barak Ravid to tell him that Israel was much safer because of the attack:
Reactions from Israel were positive, with many Israelis still asleep at the time the attack was announced (3:00 a.m. local time). There had been no immediate reports about the results of the airstrikes.
One Israeli-American who spoke to Israel’s Army Radio from the United States exclaimed: “Thank God we voted for Donald Trump!” He said there had been no real split among Trump supporters about the war.
Polling data provided exclusively to Breitbart News from Rasmussen Reports showed that a plurality of Americans favored an air or naval attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, but not the use of ground troops in the war.
Though the same polling data showed that Democrats opposed Israel’s attack on Iran, and U.S. involvement, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), a strong supporter of Israel, shared his support for Trump’s decision to attack:
Update 9:15 p.m. ET: Unconfirmed reports suggested that the U.S. had used as many as 30 “bunker buster” bombs — that is, GBU-57 bombs. The Washington Post described these:
Iran’s hardened, underground nuclear sites are impervious to most conventional weapons, except perhaps the U.S.-made, 30,000-pound, deep-penetrating bomb. B-2 bombers can carry two of these bombs at a time — the GBU-57s, better known as “bunker busters” or Massive Ordnance Penetrators. The question is whether the reinforcement and heavy rock at Fordow, Iran’s most deeply buried nuclear enrichment site, can withstand the hits.
Reports on social media indicated a mix of shock and defiance from the Iranian regime and its supporters.
If these usually lying rascals sign on to this “agreement”, how will we know if they are living up to it? Who would be the trustworthy checkers? I hope it does not turn into another WMD scandal like when Bush wanted war with Iraq. Although Saddam was guilty of much against his people, Bush lied to us to move his middle east control agenda.
Bush did indeed lie to us and continues to try to make people believe he is a conservative. As for ‘checkers’ on Iran……how about Israel? 🙂
I think, perhaps, the Iranian regime didn’t expect the U.S. to actually join the bombing campaign — they probably just thought Trump was blustering and sabre rattling. Now they have discovered the truth about that, I wonder what will be their response?
And amen to you prayer at the close of the article too 🙂
We can be sure that the Iranian Regime will answer the U.S. in some way. It would be lovely if we squash that too……humiliation upon humiliation!
I was happy. Iran thought Trump and USA was a joke, nope. We did it. Now what? WAR?
I still don’t understand why UN is so nice with Iran, but Israel. The problem was Iran, not Israel. UNITED NOTHING!!!!!! UN wanted peace and security.
People thought Trump is AC, I disagree. Impossible. We won’t be here when AC arrived on the scene.
We need to pray, pray, pray!!! Yes! Keep the Iranian people and Israeli soldiers safe!🙏🙏🙏
Amen!