Overview

• President Trump ordered precision strikes using bunker-buster bombs and more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles against the Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan uranium-enrichment facilities.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi declared that Tehran will retaliate and ruled out returning to nuclear negotiations until after it responds.
• The parliamentary resolution to close the Strait of Hormuz requires final approval from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
• U.S. commanders have increased force-protection measures for troops deployed in Iraq and Syria and the State Department issued security alerts for citizens abroad.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency reported no rise in off-site radiation levels, and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged a swift return to diplomacy to prevent wider conflict.