Overview

• The United States launched Operation Midnight Hammer, dispatching B-2 Spirit bombers that dropped 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators and a volley of Tomahawk missiles on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
• Satellite imagery showed multiple craters at Fordow, yet the International Atomic Energy Agency reported no increase in off-site radiation as the underground damage remains under assessment.
• Iran’s parliament approved a plan to shut the Strait of Hormuz, and advisers to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that U.S. bases and oil transit routes would be considered legitimate targets.
• President Trump said the mission achieved its goal of neutralising Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities and suggested regime change if Tehran cannot “make Iran great again.”
• The Department of Homeland Security raised its threat alert for potential cyber and terror attacks at home as U.S. forces in the Middle East adopted heightened protection measures.