Sunday 22 / June / 2025
Muscat: US President Donald Trump said the US had carried out attacks against three nuclear sites in Iran, including the site in Fordo.
Trump posted on his Truth Social account that a "a full payload of bombs was dropped" on the site, that is known to be located several dozen meters underground, making it more difficult to attack.
According the post, all planes that took part in the strikes left Iranian airspace.
"Congratulations to our great American warriors," Trump said, adding that it is now "time for peace."
After announcing the US Air Force's airstrikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, US President Donald Trump re-shared a post on Truth Social which labels the site in Fordo, an underground nuclear site in Iran, as "gone."
Despite carrying out airstrikes on nuclear sites across Iran, Israel had not attacked the Fordo site.
US bunker-busting bombs, which use weight and sheer kinetic force to reach deeply buried targets, were needed to reach the underground site.
Trump will hold a speech at the White House regarding the American airstrikes in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.
The speech will take place at 10 p.m. ET (02:00 UTC/06:00 Oman time).
An Iranian official confirmed that part of the nuclear site in Fordo was attacked by "enemy airstrikes," according to Iran's Tasnim News Agency and IRNA agency.
