Fast Facts
- The U.S. struck three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday, President Donald Trump announced on social media.
- Five to six bunker buster bombs struck the Fordow nuclear site, Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
- Thirty Tomahawk missiles were fired against Natanz and Isfahan from U.S. submarines, Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin reports.
- Trump said Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities were “totally obliterated” during a brief address the American people from the White House Saturday.
Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities ‘totally obliterated,’ Trump tells nation
US Vice President JD Vance, from left, US President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, and Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, during an address to the nation in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Trump said the US military struck three sites in Iran on Saturday, marking the first American involvement in direct attacks against Iranian nuclear assets in its conflict with Israel. Photographer: Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images
President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Saturday night after announcing strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites via Truth Social.
Speaking from the White House accompanied by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the President said, “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.”
He also reached out to Israeli leadership, saying, “I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team. Like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.”
“This cannot continue,” Trump added. “There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill.”
Tonight’s speech marks the president’s first formal remarks to the American people since ordering the strikes, and it comes amid mounting questions about what comes next both for the United States and the wider Middle East.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is expected to host a press briefing tomorrow at 8:00 AM ET.
“God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America,” Trump concluded.
Posted by Jasmine Baehr – Story and photo courtesy of our news partner Fox News – http://foxnews.com
Link to watch President Trump’s address to Nation following strikes: https://youtu.be/qOOT7CAGzUs?si=fNzoSHBX1Ya2ZFhK
Netanyahu congratulates Trump, says US strikes in Iran ‘will change history’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated President Donald Trump in a formal statement following the U.S. strikes in Iran. He said that the U.S. “acted with a lot of strength” in its strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
“Your bold decision to target Iran’s nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history,” Netanyahu said. “In Operation Rising Lion, Israel has done truly amazing things, but in tonight’s action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, America has been truly unsurpassed. It has done what no other country on earth could do. History will record that President Trump acted to deny the world’s most dangerous regime the world’s most dangerous weapons.”
The statement comes after reports that the two leaders spoke following the U.S. strikes.
Posted by Rachel Wolf (Story courtesy of Fox News)
White House gave ‘heads up’ to Congress before launching strikes on Iran: official
The White House gave Congressional leadership a “heads up” before President Donald Trump decided to launch strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, an official told Fox News Saturday night.
The president said Saturday night that the U.S. had completed a “very successful” strike against sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. Trump said Iran must now “agree to end this war.”
Posted by Brie Stimson (Story courtesy of Fox News)
House Speaker Mike Johnson was briefed ahead of the U.S. strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.
Johnson wrote in a post on X following the strikes that they show Trump’s “America First policy in action.”
“The military operations in Iran should serve as a clear reminder to our adversaries and allies that President Trump means what he says,” Johnson wrote. “The President gave Iran’s leader every opportunity to make a deal, but Iran refused to commit to a nuclear disarmament agreement.”
Johnson said that Trump’s “decisive action” is stopping “the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism” from “obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.”
One Representative condemns President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran sites: Squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. has condemned President Donald Trump for striking Iran’s nuclear sites and says the action is an impeachable offense.”
The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X late Saturday.”
“He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
Posted by Michael Dorgan (courtesy of Fox News)
