Overview

• Operation Midnight Hammer deployed B-2 stealth bombers to strike Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan, causing what the Pentagon called “extremely severe damage.”
• President Trump declared the attacks “very successful” and framed them as necessary to halt Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that any Iranian counterstrike would be “the worst mistake they’ve ever made,” emphasizing U.S. freedom to operate in Iranian airspace.
• Iran’s leadership condemned the bombardment, vowed to hold the United States “fully accountable,” and has not specified its next course of action.
• U.S. officials insist they seek no regime change and remain prepared to resume negotiations if Iran abandons its pursuit of nuclear weapons.