Overview

• The United States dropped bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan nuclear sites during strikes on June 20.
• Two US officials assess that Iran could launch retaliatory attacks against American forces in the Middle East within the next day or two.
• President Trump hailed the operation as a “very successful attack” that obliterated key enrichment facilities and urged Iran to end the war.
• Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced Israel’s earlier June 13 bombings as a “big mistake” and vowed retribution against the “Zionist enemy.”
• The International Atomic Energy Agency warned that strikes on nuclear facilities risk radioactive contamination and weaken global non-proliferation efforts.