Overview

• President Trump ordered Operation Midnight Hammer on June 21, deploying B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk missiles against Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites with 14 GBU-57 A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators at Fordow.
• Jamie Metzl, a former National Security Council official under Bill Clinton and Biden Senate aide who voted for Kamala Harris, commended the strike and asserted that Harris would not have had the same resolve.
• The White House has not released an official damage assessment, while President Trump has claimed the attack inflicted “monumental damage” on Iran’s nuclear program.
• Iran’s leadership has vowed reprisals, prompting the Pentagon to bolster defenses across the Middle East with heightened risk of counterattacks.
• The United Nations, United Kingdom, France and Germany have urged restraint and a return to stalled nuclear negotiations to prevent further escalation.