Overview

• President Donald Trump ordered strikes on Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan over the weekend, deploying bunker-buster bombs and Tomahawk missiles against underground nuclear sites.
• International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi warned that the strikes likely inflicted very significant damage to sensitive centrifuges and raised proliferation and contamination concerns.
• Iranian General Abdolrahim Mousavi declared that Iran’s armed forces have a free hand to target US interests in response to what he called a breach of Iran’s sovereignty.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin, who condemned the strikes as “absolutely unprovoked aggression” and pledged efforts to assist the Iranian people.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said any Russian aid depends on Iran’s needs and expressed regret that Washington did not inform Moscow in advance, as global leaders press for a diplomatic off-ramp.