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Trump used SIX bunker buster bombs and 30 Tomahawk missiles to 'obliterate' Iran's nuclear sites
Donald Trump has confirmed he 'completely obliterated' Iran's Fordow nuclear site with six massive 30,000-pound 'bunker buster' bombs.
Two other nuclear sites in Iran were also 'wiped out' with 30 Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. submarines 400 miles away.
The details were revealed by Sean Hannity of Fox News, who spoke to the president shortly after the strikes.
But to destroy the Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant, Israel appealed to Trump for the bunker busting American bomb known as the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
It uses its weight and kinetic force to reach deeply buried targets and then explode.
The bombs can only be delivered by the B-2 stealth bomber, which is only found in the American arsenal.
If the bunker busters were indeed deployed in the attack, it will have been the first combat use of the weapon.
The precision-guided bomb is designed to attack deeply buried and hardened bunkers and tunnels, according to the U.S. Air Force.
It’s believed to be able to penetrate about 200 feet below the surface before exploding.
The bombs can be dropped one after another, effectively drilling deeper and deeper with each successive blast.
On Saturday morning the B-2 stealth bombers left from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and flew non-stop for about 37 hours, refueling several times mid-air, a US official told the New York Times on condition of anonymity.
The B-2, which is capable of carrying nuclear arms, is only flown by the Air Force, and is produced by Northrop Grumman.
Trump addresses the nation after US forces bombed Iran's nuclear sites as he issues chilling warning
President Donald Trump called Saturday's strikes on a trio of Iranian nuclear sites a 'spectacular military success' and gave a stark warning to Tehran that more attacks would be coming if the regime didn't make peace.
Trump surprised the world a little before 8 p.m. Saturday by announcing on Truth Social that he had given the go-ahead to attack Iran, using six massive 30,000-pound 'bunker buster' bombs and 30 Tomahawk missiles to destroy Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
The president's decision to join Israel on a mission to wipe out the Islamic republic's nuclear program comes nine days after Israel first attacked.
Shortly after 10 p.m., Trump addressed the nation in the White House's Cross Hall, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
He spoke for less than four minutes.
'Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success,' Trump said. 'Iran's key 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 will be far greater and a lot easier,' Trump warned.
The president opened his remarks by calling Iran the 'world's No. 1 state-sponsor of terror.'
'For 40 years, Iran has been saying "death to America, death to Israel,"' Trump said. 'They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty.'
He blamed the deaths of thousands on Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, who the U.S. assassinated under the direction of Trump at the Baghdad airport in January 2020.
'It will not continue,' Trump warned.
Trump thanked and congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who the president spoke to by phone after the U.S.'s bombing campaign, the Daily Mail confirmed.
'We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before,' Trump boasted. 'And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.'
The president then thanked the U.S.'s top military officials - saying that he hoped he would not have to order a strike on Iran again.
'This cannot continue. There will either be peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days,' he warned.
'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,' the president said.
He warned that most Iranian targets can be taken out 'in a matter of minutes.'
'There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight. Not even close. There's never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago,' Trump said.
Trump ended his brief remarks by thanking God.
'I want to just say we love you God, and we love our great military, protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America,' Trump said.
As the president was speaking, the White House released a number of images of Trump and his top officials meeting Saturday in the Situation Room.
Trump was still wearing a red Make America Great Again ballcap as Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and CIA Director John Ratcliffe are gathered around him.
The president's address came after he announced the attacks on Iran using his Truth Social network, a little before 8 p.m. Saturday.
'We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,' the president said.
'All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,' he continued. 'All planes are safely on their way home.'
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