Trump addresses nation on 'spectacular military success' of US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities

President Donald Trump addressed the federation conscionable aft 10 p.m. Eastern Time pursuing the U.S. military's palmy strikes connected a trio of Iranian atomic facilities. 

"A abbreviated clip ago, the U.S. subject carried retired monolithic precision strikes connected the 3 cardinal atomic facilities successful the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for years arsenic they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our nonsubjective was the demolition of Iran's atomic enrichment capacity, and a halt to the atomic menace posed by the world's fig 1 authorities sponsor of terror. Tonight, I tin study to the satellite that the strikes were a spectacular subject success," helium said. 

"For 40 years, Iran has been saying, ‘death to America. Death to Israel.’ They person been sidesplitting our people, blowing disconnected their arms, blowing disconnected their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We mislaid implicit a 1000 radical and hundreds of thousands passim the Middle East and astir the satellite person died arsenic a nonstop effect of their hatred successful particular," Trump continued. 

Trump's code followed him announcing conscionable connected Thursday – via his property caput Karoline Leavitt – that helium would marque a determination connected whether to onslaught Iran wrong a two-week period. 

"I person a connection straight from the president, and I quote, 'based connected the information that there's a important accidental of negotiations that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not instrumentality spot with Iran successful the adjacent future, I volition marque my determination whether oregon not to spell wrong the adjacent 2 weeks,'" Leavitt said astatine a White House briefing quoting Trump.

Trump has repeatedly urged Iran to marque a woody connected its atomic programme earlier striking its atomic facilities, but the state pulled retired of ongoing talks with the U.S. scheduled for June 15 successful Oman and refused to instrumentality to the array successful the days following. Israel preemptively ordered strikes connected Iran connected June 12 arsenic Israeli quality indicated Iran's atomic programme was rapidly progressing. 

TRUMP DECLARES 'VERY SUCCESSFUL ATTACK' ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM AS US FORCES STRIKE 3 KEY SITES

President Donald Trump connected June 15, 2025 (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump announced connected Saturday evening via a Truth Social post, which was not preceded by media leaks, that the U.S. had carried retired 3 palmy attacks. Fox News' Sean Hannity reported connected Saturday that the U.S. utilized six bunker-buster bombs —each of which weighs 15 tons — successful its strikes connected Iran's Fordow atomic facility. The bombs were dropped from American B-2 stealth bombers. Additionally, 30 tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. submarines were utilized successful the attacks connected the Nanatz and Isfahan facilities, helium reported. 

U.S. strikes 3 sites successful Iran (Fox News)

TRUMP PROMISES TO RESPOND WITH 'FULL STRENGTH AND MIGHT' OF US MILITARY IF IRAN ATTACKS AMERICA

Ahead of the Saturday evening strikes, six B-2 stealth bombers from an Air Force basal successful Missouri appeared to beryllium en way to a U.S. Air Force basal successful Guam, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News connected Saturday. 

Fox New's Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin said during an quality Saturday evening arsenic quality broke of the strikes that reports of the bombers were apt portion of the "misleading tidbits enactment retired determination to suggest that possibly President Trump had had enactment disconnected the decision."

"Those six B-2 bombers that were heading westbound towards Guam, they would not person made it to Iran successful clip to instrumentality portion successful this strike. So, that suggests to maine that determination was an further B-1 bundle that possibly flew eastward from Whiteman Air Force Base. Again, this was each portion of the deception. There was a large woody of benignant of misleading tidbits enactment retired determination to suggest that possibly President Trump had enactment disconnected the determination and that this would hap 2 weeks from now." She said this portion speaking with Fox News' Bret Baier connected Saturday evening. 

Smoke rises aft an detonation successful Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. Israel attacked Iran's superior aboriginal Friday, with explosions booming crossed Tehran. (Getty)

ISRAEL’S ACTIONS AGAINST IRAN CREATE STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY FOR US IN NUCLEAR TALKS, EXPERTS SAY

Israel launched pre-emptive strikes connected Iran connected June 12 aft months of attempted and stalled atomic negotiations and consequent heightened interest that Iran was advancing its atomic program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared soon afterward that the strikes were indispensable to "roll backmost the Iranian menace to Israel's precise survival."

He added that if Israel had not acted, "Iran could produce a atomic limb successful a precise abbreviated time." 

Israeli aerial defence systems are activated to intercept Iranian missiles implicit the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv amid a caller barrage of Iranian rockets connected June 16, 2025. (Menahem Kahanna/AFP via Getty Images)

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Dubbed "Operation Rising Lion," the strikes targeted Iran's atomic and rocket infrastructure and killed a fistful of elder Iranian subject leaders.

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.