Trump pulled the trigger. His big claim of no wars on his watch is no more. He will address the nation at 10:00 PM.
Three Nuclear Sites Hit
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Says the U.S. Has Completed Air Strikes on Iran
The U.S. joined Israel’s attacks against Iran’s nuclear program, putting more pressure on the country’s battered regime and risking further escalation of the conflict.
President Trump said on social media the U.S. attacked three of Iran’s nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan–hardened targets where analysts have said special U.S. munitions have the best chance of success.
“We have completed our very successful attacks,” Trump said in his post. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space.”
Earlier today, U.S. officials said multiple B-2 stealth bombers had left their base in Missouri and were heading west over the Pacific. The bombers can carry giant “bunker busting” bombs specifically designed to take out sites like Iran’s hardened nuclear facilities at Fordow, an enrichment site that is built inside a mountain.
Trump followed up his announcement of the strikes with a call for a return to diplomacy.
“NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!,” he wrote.
While the U.S. strikes appeared to be limited, America’s intervention threatens to widen a conflict being fought in the middle of some of the world’s most important energy facilities. Iran has threatened to strike at American troops around the region in the event the U.S. got involved in the conflict, and the oil and gas rich Gulf states that host U.S. bases are concerned the violence could spread to their territories.
Deal the Preferred Option
One hour ago the Journal reported Secretary of State Marco Rubio told allies Deal With Iran ‘Preferred’ Option
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a series of European allies over the last two days that the Trump administration’s “preferred” option is to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue with a diplomatic deal, according to three European officials and one U.S. official. Rubio—who held calls or meetings with counterparts from the United Kingdom, France, Cyprus, Italy and Sweden—conveyed that President Trump still wanted an agreement with Iran that would see the country dismantle its nuclear program. Those conversations occurred just as some allies were preparing to meet with Iran’s foreign minister in Geneva, which ended Friday with no breakthrough.
Rubio’s message came after Trump said he would give Iran up to two weeks to demonstrate that it would abide by his demands of zero enrichment. If Tehran showed no willingness to budge, then Trump may decide to order one of the attack plans he approved of. The president, who has participated in several national-security meetings on the issue, is holding another one at the White House late Saturday. The State Department and White House, where Rubio simultaneously serves as national-security adviser, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
NBC Live Updates
NBC has Live Updates on Iran.
President Donald Trump’ decision to strike Iran’s fortresslike Fordo nuclear enrichment facility likely caused casualties among workers or anyone else still at the site. But it would not trigger a nuclear explosion or a widespread radiological or chemical spill, according to former nuclear officials and experts.
Sitting to the south of Iran’s capital, Tehran, the Fordo plant is used to enrich uranium for the production of nuclear energy or, potentially, a bomb. But although this uranium and its chemical byproducts can be harmful to ingest or touch without protective equipment — they won’t create a wider blast or regional contamination, analysts say.
That would only be the case if Fordo housed nuclear reactors or warheads, which international watchdogs and experts say is not the case.
“If you’re down there and it gets bombed, you’re stuffed,” Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the ex-commanding officer of the British military’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment, told NBC News on Thursday.
Successful Attack
Truth Social: “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 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! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Trump to Address the Nation at 10:00 PM
“I will be giving an Address to the Nation at 10:00 P.M., at the White House, regarding our very successful military operation in Iran. This is an HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ISRAEL, AND THE WORLD. IRAN MUST NOW AGREE TO END THIS WAR. THANK YOU!,” said Trump on Truth Social.
Hopefully the conflict between the two countries will be resolved quickly, so that the world economy returns to normal.
Mission Accomplished
Think I read that before.
Military.somewhere.
Three strikes and you are out.
So long it’s been good to know ya.
Here’s an excellent video with imagery that’s more 3D of the aftermath. It also has a map of what’s believed to be the underground tunnels & enrichment halls.
Satellite Imagery Shows Six Impacts at Fordow Uranium Enrichment Facility–hit over centrifuges
There are enough nuclear armed powers. The world does not need more. No country should be permitted to enrich Uranium.
Do with think China would allow Taiwan to enrich uranium? So you think Turkey would allow Armenia to enrich uranium? Do you think Russia would allow Finland to enrich Uranium?
Iran spent decades chanting death to America. America took out their enrichment capability. Given Russian distraction and the regime change in Syria this was a good time to do it. The idea that Iran was not there ‘yet’, even is true, is irrelevant, once you understand the risks of a nuclear weapon.
“No country should be permitted to enrich Uranium.”
Dumb and proud.
You’re looking in the mirror as you say this, yes?
This is a GREAT idea! I have not heard it broached before from the various media talking heads. One wonders why not?
Why isn’t the UN pushing this policy? This would be something useful for them to do for a change.
Count me in if and when the same rules apply to the US, Japan, France, China, and North Korea
Rules are “flexible.”
That’s why they’re rules and not laws.
That’s why things are not working out so well.
Would you allow exceptions to enrich uranium for peaceful energy generation? Or are you proposing a hard ban on everything?
Yes. Iran had agreed to enrich uranium to somelike like 3.5%, which is all that is necessary for commercial use. But they continued violated this agree and no one ever did anything about it!
But given that Iran has some of the largest oil stores in the world, they really don’t have a need for nuclear plants to generate electricity. I’m unsure why this point never gets broached.
Further, both oil and standard nuclear plants are going to be obsoleted as soon as fusion plants arrive.
Iran could have sat back, built a modern society, enjoyed the bounty of their oil supplies and waited until the fusion technology was perfected.
But nooooooooo. That’s because Iran’s radical, fanatical Islamic Regime wanted a nuke bomb as “protection”.
Now they will get nothing. Iran will either agree to stop nuke enrichment and not fund terrorist states in the future or they will be bombed every time it looks like they try to restart their program.
Sure they hit something, but they did not have any effects. Hasn’t anyone been to NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain to see how impossible it will be.
Yup, all the US military leaders are lying but YOU know the truth! [lol]
Well, that’s usually how it goes
tramp will be onto something new next week. stay tuned for the vaudeville grifter show. democracy works perfect. assholes elect assholes. amerikans are assholes.
If you want clarity, list all the answers to this: What makes us NOT assholes to the rest of the world?
Deal? How can deal mean anything? Iran already signed on the dotted line.
GBU-57 was purpose built for Fordow. Has the US ever had an undeployed weapon?
Donald has contravened the Geneva Convention (bombed nuclear site), as the US has in Kursk and Zaporizhzhia); the Constitution, the UN Charter, and International law. There is no bound the US will not step over, be it genocide, torture, perfidy, terrorism, assassinating your opposites in diplomacy, targeting embassies. Sneakier than the devil himself, the hubris will boomerang when the devil restores cosmic heirarchy. Ἀνάγκη with Χρόνος will crush the mutant.
Fordow I can see, it needs the bunker buster which Israel does not have. But why Natanz and Isfahan, which Israel claims to have pretty much destroyed already with multiple strikes of their own?
Not to mention that talking of two weeks for negotiation while bombers are in the air sort of smacks of a Dec 7th sneak attack, which we called “perfidious” when Japan did it.
Trump is one of the preys of Epstein web.
SO FAR SEASON 2025 IN Pax Dumbfuckistan IS QUITE ACTION PACKED
First, Trump said: 2 weeks.
THEN: Immediately he strikes.
SUCKER PUNCH!
That proves to the world that Trump ABSOLUTELY and FOR SURE will not keep commitments.
The “Peace President” is as Peaceful as OBAMA – – MAN who got the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE during his term….whilst bombing the shist of out Libya….and took out Gaddafi. Obama also did some ops in Syria (all largely unreported by a compliant Press.
Nobel is a crock of shit.
Next up: TRUMP GETS The PEACE PRIZE!
bingo
He didn’t guarantee them 2 weeks. He said he’d decide WITHIN 2 weeks. Well he decided within that time frame so he did not lie or break his word, he kept it.
ha ha. tramp never lies. taco
He lied to me, since I voted for him due to his “no more wars” promise. Hopefully this stupidity doesn’t lead to WW III.
What a goal for his presidency, how ambitious we are as a nation
Going from 60% enriched to bomb-grade enriched is pretty much a trivial one step process which no doubt is the purpose of Fordo. There is no use for 60% enriched other than to make a bomb. Once you have bomb grade, and all you need is baseball sized, you can hide it away anywhere and it’s game over. Iran has been working on triggers for nukes, which guess what, have no purpose other than to trigger nukes! Gabbard is possibly technically correct that Iran ‘isn’t developing a weapon’ but it IS putting the pieces in place to have nukes made in a matter of weeks. This was the West’s last chance to prevent an Islamic bomb that God knows, might have been a birthday present for ISIS or Hamas.
The big worry with nukes is electromagnetic pulse. In theory one nuke exploding at 500 miles up could take out all the electronics in the US. Back to 1880. That’s a much more serious problem than a crater where DC used to be, and North Korea has had that capability for 10 years now. The world would have been better off if the NK facilities had been taken out before they had a bomb and missiles, even if it meant war. The same holds for Iran, I’m afraid.
At least this sends a message to Chubby Kim that he doesn’t have a bunker anywhere that’s safe.
In 1880 people knew how to do / make stuff with what they had. Try 880…
cavemen will survive. i live in a hood filled with haitians. these folks already know how to survive warzones and survive on rice and beans and living with 4 generations under one roof. the middlebrows born on 3rd base past 80 years in pax dumbfuckistan are soft.
You’re not going to get an effective EMP weapon from an atom bomb (uranium). Only Russia or China could currently pull off a big EMP. By trying to run the world, we’re giving them a reason.
We can too. France also and the UK.
NK certainly has H-bombs, took them only a few years to build one after they made their first nuke. Iran can do the same. And NK could lend them the missiles. And anyway, a regular nuke is bad enough even with an EMP.
A play put on for puppets
Exclusive: Iran given advance notice as US insisted attack on nuclear sites is ‘one-off’
https://amwaj.media/en/media-monitor/exclusive-iran-given-advance-notice-as-us-insisted-attack-on-nuclear-sites-is-one
US President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.” This comes as Amwaj.media has learned that Washington notified Tehran of the strikes. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian political source confirmed that the Trump administration on June 21 conveyed that it did not seek an all-out confrontation, and only intended to strike the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. Importantly, the senior source also confirmed that the targeted sites were evacuated, with “most” of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium kept in secure locations.
Sad if true. There should not have been any notice to the Iranians.
For all the delusional MAGA crowd who disregarded all those who told them The Grifter in Chief is nothing but a stooge learn ya lesson, stop making excuses, you should have been in no doubt after 2020 but still better late than never. Wake up!
I do not need a poke in the ribs. OH, I am not a MAGA. I am also not a Biden/Kamala believer, or a Bush/CLINTON/ etc voter. I do not vote and stray away from Politics with Friends.
Learn how to speak then come back.
he’s typing. not speaking.
Typing is classed as speak. It’s a comment section not a typing section. You should join him in taking speaking lessons, then you can come back & have a real conversation.
those morons will go to their dirt naps as dumb as stumps. The stupid are like the dead, both unaware of their present situation..
All well calling the sheeple morons but you will share their fate if you do not convince enough of them to take the required actions. The only alternative is get the hell out of the US, fighting amongst yourselves is exactly what they want.
Ya can’t fix stupid.
14 MOPs dropped during Midnight Hammer. I had estimated 12
Nice!
Back in 1982 the Air Force was testing ways to see how far underground they could get using normal 500-pound laser-guild bombs which were new at the time. It took thirty-five bombs to get down 100 feet. Imagine what 14 GBU-57s can do.
this makes sense from Israel’s perspective, but from ours it doesn’t.
Isrel could have got it done on its own. it would have found a way to take out those reactors. maybe not with a bomb but it would have got it done. probably with more loss of life for itself
The US people did not want this. there was a bipartisan agreement among actual Americans, only 25% of Americans supported a strike on Iran! Our government should care about what the people want.
Epstein had close ties with Israel. Epstein is after all a…
Trump mentioned 54 times in Epstein report.
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what does “mentioned” mean? it could literally be they asked someone about Trump 54 times and they said they knew nothing, or did they ever ee Trump with underage girl and they said no. i don’t like Trump, and would not put anything past him re Epstein or anything else but “mentioned” is meaningless.
epstein was CIA/Mossad honey trap to own the ruling class. isn’t this obvious to anyone with a pulse?
Operative word, “SHOULD.”
I’m guessing ‘the people’ don’t want Iran with a nuke. Read my earlier post, this was the last chance to prevent that happening. It’s a sad world, but reality is reality.
well if that’s true then the polls would have showed that people DO support a US strike on iran, but they don’t.
Point is Israel could have got it done. the things they did in this strike were astounding and i do not doubt they had a plan for Fordo. obviously they are happier to have had the US do it with bombs.
They do care what the people want… the people with absurd amounts of money.
Do you not understand the concept of the REPRESENTATIVE government we live under?
People’s only real say is who they vote for every 2, 4 or 6 years. PERIOD.
All the rest is just people mouthing off, on one side or the other. And yes, like myself.
I think the attack was a huge mistake. Certainly, our government should have been more persistent in diplomatic negotiations, even if it took another year. What was the rush? Our own intelligence has made it plain that Iran had no nuclear weapons, and no intention to build one. (Why should they? North Korea, Russia, China, or Pakistan have indicated if the war escalates, Iran may be supplied with nuclear weapons.) At least we now have proof that the nation of Israeli has near complete control over President Trump. But why? Is President Trump compromised in some manner?
Watch this at the risk of the complete destruction of any faith you have in Trump:
Watch: Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together in 1992Facebook · Sky News9K+ reactions · 2 weeks ago
But hey! Trump was only mentioned in the Epstein Report 54 times.
Trump boasts of grabbing women by the Pussy,
Trump pays hush money to a porn star so she does not talk of his raping her.
Where do you think all those Russian girls working in the strip clubs near Mar-a-Lago come from?
What correlation could there possibly be!
Yes, he is compromised. So also is the gutless body of those called representatives and senators. They yielded the power invested in themselves by the constitution to one man. Read the comments here and tell me that one man should have so much power in his hands. The republic went the way of Rome long ago. People crave a voice, nay, an effective lever in their fate but shall not have it.
You can’t truly be as dumb as our post seems to indicate!
Perhaps you haven’t been paying attention to the news? Iran was supposedly weeks away from announcing that they had manufactured their first nuclear bomb. Israel knew this because of how many spies they had inserted into Iran. The world has been negotiating with Iran for decades now and what did all this negotiation get us – Iran STILL moving forward on building a nuke!
Time for negotiation was over. Trump made the right decision
Yep. If Iran wanted to build a bomb or two, they would have done that by now. Bebe returned to politics to stay out of jail for corruption and graft, so needs to go to jail now for attacking a sovereign nation’s nuclear materials, in violation of the Geneva Convention. Since the 90’s he’s whined that “Iran is about to build a bomb”…same lies we saw Bush Jr peddle to justify finishing his daddy’s business in Iraq were dusted off here and pushed out in a pathetic attempt to justify starting WWIII. Sad day for the world.
It’s put an end to any rate cuts this year imo.
The world is always in a mess. It’s just a question of how much of a mess. Political, religious, and ethnic hatred have been happening for thousands of years. This is just more of the same.
Contrary to some opinions here, there is no “end” to this. Just occasional, temporary pauses, in some areas of the world, and flare-ups in other areas.
Both sides will claim “God” is on their side, as they butcher the other side. If you are a “person of faith”, what does your faith say is the right thing to do?
You can choose to pick a side in this endless game, or you can choose to try to avoid being impacted as best you can. You can also try to take advantage of whatever opportunities arise from the tumult.
Yes, we already know you are an opportunist. You say it often and are proud of it.
Yep.
Let me guess. Which side have you proudly picked?
Well it can’t be yours because you don’t have a side. Opportunists never do.
You won’t proudly state which side? Too embarrassed to give your righteous explanation? Make your God proud of you.
If you don’t know by now then you haven’t read anything I wrote. You know I prefer Trump but somehow you think it would be a victory to have me say it now when I have said it before many times. Very strange behavior on your part.
baaaahahahaaaaa
Grok. Define “opportunist”.
An opportunist is someone who seeks to gain personal advantage from circumstances, often with little regard for moral principles, loyalty, or long-term consequences. They prioritize self-interest, exploiting situations or others’ efforts to maximize their own benefit, typically without committing to a cause or taking risks.
In moral terms, an opportunist is often seen as lacking integrity, as their actions are driven by what’s most profitable or convenient rather than what’s right or fair. For example, an opportunist might switch allegiances in a conflict to align with the winning side or capitalize on a crisis for personal gain without contributing to its resolution.
Recognize yourself?
Yep. Other than I never take sides or switch sides.
Now. How about you righteously state which side you are on. Make your God proud.
Or are you still too embarrassed to do so? No conviction? Lol!
I already said. You can type but not read.
I was hoping for something more righteous than that. You know. “Our God wants us to bomb their hospitals. Lets strangle all the babies. I personally want to drop the bombs.”
Pretty standard stuff.
Maybe you aren’t up for it today.
Trump is Doug78’s God.
Most of Campbell’s Chunky Soup lasts for 2 years, and no need to add water. Stock up!
don the con says. he is known as a boasting inept fool. will he tell the nation he is resigning for treason?
I think the term TACO that his critics use is actually part of the plan. Trump has said before that he values unpredictability.
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The New York Times:
Sheltering in a Bunker, Iran’s Supreme Leader Names Potential Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes, he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.
Anyone who has read “The Prince” would recognize the tactic and how to use it. Our world is more similar to 16th Century Italy than we would like to admit.
At least he didn’t flee to Greece like Bebe when the missiles started to arrive. 🙂
Without a declaration of war by Congress Trump attacked a country that didn’t attack the United State. And Trump did this on behalf of another country. Trump must be impeached. And Trump and Nuttyyahoo are war criminals.
I get what you’re saying, but for some strange reason not hearing a peep out of the Congressional Impeachers I and II the past half day. Anyone who saw which flags were waved during RNC Day 2 could see this coming. Nikki and Pompeo did win.
Make sure to write/call your Congressperson! [lol]
War is peace,
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Bayonce is a good singer
That is a quote from George Orwell in the book 1984
Of course you would not have a clue… Sheesh!
I read that book long ago sonny. When I was young it was required reading in high school. We read Animal Farm in junior high. What did you read in school? Johnny Wears a Dress?
suck it up buttercups, almost as many sore losers as the ZH comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r64GxYmFS1M&list=RDr64GxYmFS1M&start_radio=1
You can say good things about Trump, he’s still Nethanyahu’s puppet.
This is a very unfortunate and dangerous development.
So much for the Taco meme.
One decision doesn’t cure one of waffling. More tacos to come.
Until Netanyahoo calls the shots. Then Trump is obedient.
This article was published a couple of days ago, prior to Trump’s actions Saturday but is definitely worth a read:
“ Obama actually agreed to a “sunset clause” that would have allowed Iran legitimately to have as many nuclear weapons as could get, starting in October 2025.”
That is why Obama’s deal was worthless from the beginning.
worthless also because it ignored the missile production, which was criticized at the time Obama’s legacy deal in shambles
Yes. Obama wouldn’t be President then and might even be dead by 2025, so like most politicians, he pitched the agreement as a win and don’t worry about 2025.
What a joke. Israel would never sign the NPT or allow inspectors into their nuclear development centers, and they stole the material and technology fro the U.S.; while Iran has signed the NPT and has allowed inspectors into their centers (or no one would even know the level they have enriched to!). They also think it’s okay to kill and wound hundreds of civilians living in an apartment, in order to murder one scientist asleep in his bed. And then there’s the formerly well respected IDF who now get their jolly’s by gleefully posting pictures of the various ways they’ve murdered little kids in Gaza. “If you live by the sword, you’ll die by the sword”, and I’ll be very surprised if they’re still a nation ten years from now.
Well, nobody is talking about Elon talking about Trump and Epstein now.
Perhaps they are afraid Trump will send a drone to their home and kill them?
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Everybody knows that trump is a child molester, as are many of his voters. None of his voters care. That horse died a while ago.
He’s in the process of making it expensive to run their F350 though…. let’s watch and see what happens!
Now that Trump is no longer TACOing 100% of the time, I wonder what’s going to happen the next time he talks about a ceasefire in Ukraine needing to happen sooner rather than later.
Don’t forget, China and Russia watched Israel and the US dismantle Iran in record time. Any thoughts of moving on Taiwan or pushing on too long in Ukraine got a hard cold dose of reality.
The message sent here wasn’t just for Iran, it was for the whole world.
The next nuclear aspirant will not go through the hoops of playing by the “international rules based order”.
Right, What’s really exciting, and idk if The next nuclear aspirant has the commodity inputs for it, but I’d bet they could use surprisingly cheap consumer hardware for guidance, like they’re subject to the same proliferation pressures that drones have. Especially an aspirant country chock a block with college educated people and as much dual use products as anyone could ask for
Right… Decapitation strike on Kyiv coming right up. Time to put those obstinate Ukrainians in their place.
Indeed it is.
Exactly. The nerve of the ukrainians to defend their country against invasion is unbelievable. Don’t they know that it’s a TACO world now? Why do they need to let their love of their country and freedom get in the way of a mad dictator’s obsessions? Diagraceful, how their bravery and resilience gets in the way of oppression.
The Ukrainians are doing well enough and they have all of Europe to furnish them with weapons and money to push back Putin. If Ukraine risks being overwhelmed that would be a different matter but it’s not. For now their problem is the missile attacks on civilian targets. Iran will run out of missiles soon and won’t be able to make more while Israel and the US can keep making them so eventually US and Israeli production will benefit Ukraine in a more direct way. For now Ukraine will have hold on. There are other more pressing matters for us.
China has cut off rare earth minerals, needed for the US military’s smart bombs & missiles. Biden used up a majority of our Nations stock pile of weapons for Ukraine, that’ll take up to 4 yrs to rebuild. A hotwar with China, the US will only have a two week supply of weapons & then we have to surrender. China knows this, as the door is now wide open for China to capture Taiwan.
Sigh. We really need people to pass an IQ test before being allowed to post here!
The weapons we were giving to Ukraine were surplus and ready to be replaced.
Also:
So our nation should be killing non-jews and establishing religion now?
Have you any clue what our nation stood for before Trump?
Religious Freedom!
Now we have a dictator (Trump) deploying our military to fight Americans in the streets.
Thank you very little!
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Greenland has stopped allowing U.S. warships to re-fuel at their ports.
Canadians are leaving their U.S. vacation homes and selling them.
No nation, people, religion or race should feel safe from Trumps malignant narcissistic tendencies. Excepting the KKK of course.
Fine, the US can refuel in Iceland or Great Britain or Canada depending on the direction they are going. I mean how big can these ports be anyway when there are only a few thousand people in all of Greenland.
As a Canadian who goes back and forth I enjoyed the empty non-crowded flights and this summer will enjoy fewer tourists competing for the things I also want to visit in the USA. If enough Canadians sell their vacation homes it might even help with the so-called housing crisis.
Iran was a relatively easy target, though there will probably be some substantial blowback from them or their allies. Iran’s power to retaliate militarily and economically is far weaker than Russia’s or China’s. Plus the massive US debt, trillions in deficit spending without war, means we can’t afford another big war. The effect on the US economically would be like attacking ourselves.
AEOI issues statement after attack on Iran nuclear sites
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/514759/AEOI-issues-statement-after-attack-on-Iran-nuclear-sites
from June 19
…NEW: Senior Iranian Official Says Iran Moved All Enriched Uranium, Including 60% Natanz Stockpile, to Safe Sites Ahead of Israeli Strikes
“Israel hit Natanz, Isfahan’s nuclear facility, Khondab, and Arak, but those sites were already evacuated. All the materials they were looking to destroy have been moved to a safe place,” said senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei.
Rezaei is a former IRGC commander and a senior member of the Expediency Council—a body that advises the Supreme Leader and resolves disputes between branches of government. He added that Iran had anticipated war with Israel as early as March and used that time to evacuate personnel and relocate sensitive equipment from nuclear facilities.
Rezaee states all enriched uranium, including Natanz’s stockpile of 60% material, was relocated to undisclosed safe sites. The IAEA has not yet verified these claims. Satellite imagery shows visible damage to above-ground structures at Natanz and Isfahan.
Rezaei also cautioned Iran’s leadership against agreeing to a ceasefire: “Any ceasefire that is implemented now will lead to renewed war. We should not allow the enemy, which is currently in a weak position, to revive itself with a ceasefire.”
This ensures that the new Israeli genocide front can continue with U.S. support!
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
The first victims in any war are the children and elderly.
Their blood is on Trumps hands.
bingo. someone on this site has both wisdom and compassion. the true rare earth’s. intelligence and cunning and currency and things are meaningless without wisdom and compassion. 100% agree with you frosty.
Source?
It makes sense. Why leave valuable material at a known targeted site? A uranium bomb can be assembled literally in a garage. It doesn’t even need to be tested before use. The uranium for the bomb dropped on Japan was enriched in Tennessee and the bomb finally assembled in a hangar in Saipan. The plutonium for the Trinity test was made in Washington state and the bomb assembled at the top of a tower in New Mexico.
I guess you should seek employment in Iran, since you clearly know so much. They lost 15 or so highly paid nuclear engineers recently. If only they knew how easy it was to create a workable bomb!
Perhaps you are dangerous enough that the FBI should investigate you. Let’s see…
It makes no sense for an Iranian official to say this.
It makes Trump a total sucker and gives Israel and the U.S. reason to continue bombing the crap out of Iran.
If they had it they would have used it! And now, if they had it, they are totally justified in using it.
If they had it and we blew it up it is blowing around in the wind.
If they didn’t have it and we attacked, we are war mongers.
No good scenarios here.
You don’t think that Israel knows where the uranium is? You know that Israel had many spies inside Iran, which is how they have managed to pinpoint where all their leaders were/are and take so many out? You are a fool.
all of a sudden israelis are superhuman and don’t make mistakes. all indications are iran had no nuke bomb deliverable. after obama they were brought into the world trading, as they had already been trading with europe and asia………now the acceleration of them getting missiles and drones to destroy stuff as lashing out, and tit for tat will be the story for another 100 years. when amerika retreats from world, zion is doomed. it was never really anything but guilt from ww2. that part of world has had turmoil as it is strategic location between 3 continents. the rest is eyewash.
Did Rezaei say, without saying it, that they are building nukes?
Consider the fact that this source could easily be compromised.
t gives Israel and Trump (outside the will of the American people) the excuse to continue its reckless bombardment of a nearly defenseless country and continue an attack on their religion.
Remember that Israel is a religious faction, just like Iran and it is probably more deranged and aggressive than any nation in history.
These are religions we are attempting to meddle with.
NOT OUR BUSINESS!
Sure, bombs dropped
But no effect guaranteed
Doncha think that after threatening Iran for 20 years with “bunker buster” bombs (“up to” 200 feet of penetration) the Iranians might have thought—“gee, maybe we should have deeper facilities or have different measures to counteract the decades long threat
But nah, “Mission Accomplished”
Cheers all around
Remember, the bomb was built by Boeing!
Correct. Very hard to get any Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) a couple hundred feet under ground! Additionally it appears Chinese structural engineers helped to layout the concrete pours, and their testing showed their techniques will turn a penetrating bomb up to 30 degrees on it’s descent, making it unlikely that any bombs ever reached the 250 ft. level to damage anything.
Ha ha ha. Trump didn’t trust that Dems might warn Iran of coming strike!
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Correct: Trump is at war with every American that did not vote for him.
Plus the maga’s that are watching in dismay at this act of flagrant deceit!
So Trump started with 77 million voters on his side ~ out of 340 million. That leaves 263 million disenfranchised Americans to contend with.
Only the imposition of martial law will keep him in office. IMO
My money is on the 263 million Americans that did not vote for this narcissistic, war mongering bully.
Your giving me hiccups from laughing so hard at your posts tonight!
Will you be laughing when some nutcase blows up a synagogue and kills a bunch of innocent U.S. families? Iran had no nuclear weapons and even Trumps advisors told him so. This only makes things more dangerous here at home and involves us in war and complicit in Israeli genocide.
I live in the nation that is bragging about killing and releasing nuclear material in violation of the Geneva Convention! Laugh all you want, but violence is aways reacted to.
Trump just handed democrats a lifeline. Trump told his base to F off and jews will continue to vote democrat with an energized base. Even if the economy doesn’t go into recession and Trump somehow maintains the deportation of illegals (really big ifs), he lost much of his base for good.
You do understand that 80% of Israel is happy with Trump’s actions Saturday? My Jewish friends here in the USA are 100% behind Trump.
YOUR libtard leftist progressive viewpoint is not representative of a majority of Americans, not that it really matters what the polls show. Jews voted strongly with Trump last election (thanks Biden for putting a hold on ammunition resupply for Israel!) and might do so more solidly now do to the security Trump is bringing Israel.
A President gets elected for 4 years and unless you can successfully impeach or 25th Amendment him, you are stuck with him for that time.
you are too stupid. i like opposing views, but you bring no insights but CNN and Fox news state media propaganda. blocked.
i blocked dougie too. he’s vile and threatened me with violence. i’m sicilian and have long long long memory and tentacles. we know how to wait, for a generation, or two.
Excellent! Less thumb down votes for me. [lol]
There are more ways than impeachment and the 25th to 86/47. Iran may have a small drone in trump’s future or nature may take it’s course and end this bullshit in the inevitable conclusion we all await. Remember trump is an old man with unhealthy diet and is obese.
Heh. Remember what we did to both Iraq and Afghanistan because of 9/11? The hundreds of thousands of civilians that were killed and likely millions that were crippled?
You can’t imagine the damage that Iran would suffer if they came after Trump and succeeded in offing him. We might even drop a nuke on Tehran!
Given the fact that Trump stated clearly “I will be dictator on Day One”.
Sure the Israelis love their new pawn sitting in the White House, but understand that the Constitution provides that our nation will not provide for the establishment of any religion.
The Balfour Accord in 1917 established Israel as a Jewish nation. It created a religious state within the borders of Palestine which was a democracy.
The Jews have been raising hell ever since. We as a nation should be neutral as the constitution demands.
What part of your brain can not contemplate history and the clear mandates of our founding fathers?
Is killing non-jews the only thing that occupies your mind?
The MAGA cult will support trump no matter what happens or who he kills.
Yeah I hate to tell you this but he truth social’d all the info to them some days ago and they moved the uranium that was worth a tinkers dam?! He’s the one who gave Iran the notice.
Trumps wars:
1 Support of Genocide in Gaza.
2 Dragging out the war in Ukraine.
3 Attacking defenseless Iran.
4 Troops on the ground in multiple U.S. cities.
5. Tariff’s that declared economic war on our trading partners.
6. War on: Americas Judicial system.
7. Freedom of the press.
8. Freedom of assembly.
9. Religious freedom.
Threatened nations:
Is this war because Trump can’t make any trade deals? Remember his 200 deals already signed? Remember trumps 90 deals in 90 days? He has made one deal with Great Britain which changed nothing and was a rewrite of the same old deal.
Trump is the worst president EVER!
Agree with points 1,2,3 and 8 (regarding anti-Israel protests). On 4, democrats were letting illegal alien sympathizers license to loot. On 5, our trading partners have been screwing us for decades. On 6, the judicial system was weaponized years ago. I don’t know your basis for 7 and 8.
I voted Green only for their foreign policy.
at federal level offices i always vote green or libertarian. peace and prosperity seems to be despised by 98% of amerikans. democracy works. always has. always will. the death cult of D and R voters is really despicable. nihilism is the root cause, of course.
The U.S. isn’t a democracy. It is a constitutional republic, which precludes democracy. In California we have voter initiatives. When democrats don’t like the outcome, they run to the court in an attempt to overturn the will of the voting people. Newsom even got the state Supreme Court to block a voter initiative from being on the ballot. An attack on democracy. Democrats just love to throw the word democracy around, as if it really meant something.
Well, Old Donny kept up his end of the bargain. Just like every other bought off politician in DC.
I think he converted.
Miriam Adelson gave him 100,000,000 reasons to follow through.
I’m glad her husband is dead he destroyed online poker in the US by purchasing the US Congress and outlawing poker online. Trying to protect his Las Vegas casino? Really stupid asshole.
Every rational person here knows that ISRAEL will now conduct a FALSE FLAG upon America:
They may not need to. But if this attack was successful, Israel doesn’t need Trump any more. What do you do with a used condom?
REUSE IT. of course.
Will Russia, China and the BRICS nations stand down? I doubt it. But who knows. people like Paul Craig Roberts have been very critical of Russia and Putin in allowing the Ukraine war to linger on. Not sure at this point I agree with PCR. Russia’s strategy of grinding down Ukraine, a war of attrition, a death by a thousand cuts–may be a good strategy, but I see a lot of cuts coming from the West the last year or so. We’ll see. Trump is seriously fracturing his MAGA base with his subservience to Israel, the Globalists or whatever. I think he has done serious harm with this attack and other betrayals of MAGA. I suspect he knows this and doesn’t care. He serves a different Master than most MAGA people realize. Remember his irrational story of “the Snake” that he used to tell at rallies. I believe he was referring to himself–he was and remains “the snake”.
WMD. 2.0.
TRUMP IS THE REINCARNATION OF W THE DUMBER
Maybe Bush was stupid but trump is stupid and mentally ill. My guess is that his mental illness is the cause of most of his stupid actions.
Bibi dragged us into this. Well, really, Bibi started it hoping we’d become involved and Trump goes weak at the knees whenever one of his strongmen heroes calls so he said yes. Of course Bibi has been saying Iran is weeks away from a nuke for 20 or 30 years.
Finally, in Trump, he found someone with no plan, no inner beliefs (except “what’s in it for me”) and a defective personality that can be played like a fiddle.
Netanyahu compilation of “they’re only weeks away” from the last 30 years.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JC56Ltg5zDE?si=vJ4-SG-_yJENuHQx
Iran is a terrorist death cult. Israel & Trump whopped them upside the head. The world is much safer place now!
Stop being stoopid.
Safer?
You should really get out a little more. I have friends in many nations and outside the U.S. mainstream media ~ there is almost no support for this attack on a defenseless nation that did not have nuclear weapons.
Add to that, the likelihood of sleeper cells or lone wolf attacks on soft targets here in the U.S. has increased radically.
Trump’s getting suckered into the Israeli genocide program puts the blood that will be spilled when there are attacks on Jewish places of worship here in the U.S. on his hands.
So much division and fanatical hatred has been created through this action and the genocide that is about to be unleashed in Iran.
Civil unrest is inevitable…
LOL. Welcome to Mish’s “whine” cellar blog. Better get your signs ready and head out to march tomorrow.
I wonder what Zelensky (and the tame EU) will ask Santa Trump for next?
They need some B2’s and bunker buster bombs!
There’ll be a Sarmat headed to Mar A Lago
JFK did build a bunker under Palm Beach in case of nuclear war. He built it under Peanut Island near the channel to the ocean. I have been there. It’s a park now. Wouldn’t surprise me if there is another updated one nearby.
extensive (at points technical) discussion here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341639
The first few comments are typical uninformed internet BS. Threads like this are worthless.
Breaking News: Barron Trump has just been diagnosed with severe bone spurs
I knew it was a major risk voting for Trump. never would have done so if not for the RFK Jr group that were also conned and helped push him over the edge. Of course Trump betrayed us-certainly betrayed MAGA. If you voted for Trump and you don’t feel like a major fool at this moment-you are in denial and lying to yourself.
LOL
When you’re born a fool, you don’t feel any change.
No, i don’t feel like a major fool, nor am i living in denial. I can clearly see the corruption in the Democrat Party. Kamala with her Maoist “…unencumbered by the past,” remark. My neighbor, who grew up under Castro, left California nearly 5 years ago because of what the Democrats are doing to it. Current L.A. Mayor Bass visited Cuba 7 times.
Didn’t the U.S. unite to stop the last dictator that started attacking its neighbors that were committing genocide? Think WW II
Why exactly are we on this Israeli genocidal maniacs side?
In 1917 Great Britain created Israel via the Balfour Accord. They carved out land in the democratic nation of Palestine to give to the Jews. Simultaneously, they disengaged from recognizing Palestine as a nation. Totally disenfranchising Palestine, a peaceful nation.
The Jews settled and started their nation building and invading neighboring land and starting war, after war, after war. Always playing the victim.
Now they drag us into a war against a basically defenseless nation while simultaneously committing genocide in GAZA.
Sure Iran has oil to take and Trump is doing everything he can to kill clean energy, but does he have to kill all of us in his disregard for human life?
“Why exactly are we on this Israeli genocidal maniacs side?”
Frosty, my guess is that it has something to do with the fact that since 1979 Iran has been calling for the destruction of Israel & America? I think you’ve got this all wrong.
Would you sit back on your heels after 46 years just waiting for your enemy to get the ultimate bomb? Iran did have a hand in 10/7, right? Israel has spent 18 months obliterating Hamas & Hezbollah, & the best I can tell has been kicking the living you know what out of Iran in the last week or so.
Please remind us to not recommend you for any sort of National Security post in some future liberal administration, deal?
Poor deluded Ben,
Security comes through strength not the weakness of attacking defenseless nations for their natural resources. Ben, you would have been a great SS squad leader. Drinking the Kool~Aid and Killing for Hitler.
Exactly why should Israel have been created? Why did a fanatical religious sect need a nation? Why does Israel need to attack its neighbors with our free or next to free weapons?
The Jews have been lying about nuclear weapons for decades and we have attacked Iran without probable cause. Even our military intelligence stated the their was no nuclear weapons or close to being built weapons.
Our credibility is lost as a nation!
If Iran really did move its almost-fully-enriched uranium and is able to quickly assemble a bomb and use it on Tel Aviv, well, that would be pretty funny.
It seems to me you are protesting an awful lot about those Israelis.
“Defenseless nation”
That’s hilarious. There are so many incidents of Iran attacking us indiscriminately that you seem to have your head in the sand.
The Iranian regime is cooked, and there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
History didn’t begin in 1979. Or October 2023.
Because Trump’s grandchildren are Jewish.
Now we have to steer through the Fog of War and it may not be until you hear the Emergency Broadcasting System that any of us will know what Trump has done .
Well, he broke his string of TACO’s. I hope this turns out to be one of those bloody nose type of things. Now, the ball is in the Mullah’s court.
High Def video, please?
Multiple GBU-57s & 30 Tomahawks would have created lots of fireworks.
Nick F live on mumble now, called shot from 10/8/2023
So much for the Geneva convention!
It’s game on for any nation in the world with nuclear weapons to use them at will
Iran was no threat and had no nuclear weapons.
Welcome to WW III
No nukes were used.
Anyway, any country could already use nukes. Putin has many times said Russia would have no problem using them in Ukraine if NATO got involved.
Three crimes in just one night: an unprovoked attack, on nuclear facilities, against a manner of the NPT.