Donald Trump has confirmed he ‘completely obliterated’ Iran‘s Fordow nuclear site with six massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs.
Two other nuclear sites in Iran were also wiped out with 30 Tomahawk missiles launched from submarines 400 miles away.
The details were revealed by Sean Hannity of Fox News, who spoke to the president shortly after the strikes.
Hannity added that he had been told by Trump officials that Fordow was ‘gone.’
A U.S. official suggested Fordow had been ‘taken off the table.’
It had previously been suggested that only two bunker busters would be needed to destroy the site.
Trump said B-2 stealth bombers were used to deliver the bunker busters.
Israelis had said their offensive already crippled Iran’s air defenses, allowing them to degrade multiple Iranian nuclear sites.
But to destroy the Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant, Israel appealed to Trump for the bunker-busting American bomb known as the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
It uses its weight and sheer kinetic force to reach deeply buried targets and then explode.
The bombs can only be delivered only by the B-2 stealth bomber, which is only found in the American arsenal.
If they were indeed deployed in the attack, it will have been the first combat use of the weapon.
A United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber
The Fordow nuclear site in Iran before it was hit
Trump did not immediately specify what types of bombs were dropped.
The White House and Pentagon did not immediately elaborate on the operation.
Iran has pledged to retaliate if the U.S. joined the Israeli assault.
Trump had previously indicated that he would make a final choice on whether to bomb Fordow over the next two weeks.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the United States on Wednesday that strikes targeting the Islamic Republic would result in ‘irreparable damage’ for America.
In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on May 2, 2023, airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri
Trump deployed six bunker busters in Iran
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei declared ‘any American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region.’
Trump has long vowed that he would not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
He had initially hoped that the threat of force would bring the country’s leaders to give up its nuclear program peacefully.
