A number of unprecedented US strikes against Iran “destroys” his nuclear program, said Defense Minister Pete Hegseth on Sunday when he claimed that Washington was not after a change of regime in Tehran.
The Pentagon boss asked the Iranian leader to find the conflict after President Donald Trump announced the strikes on an important underground-uranium increase in Fordo as well as nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Natanz.
“We have destroyed the Iranian nuclear program,” said Hegseth to a Pentagon press conference and added that the operation “did not aim at Iranian troops or the Iranian people”.
Trump “is looking for peace and Iran should take this way,” continued Hegseth. “This mission was not a change of regime,” he added.
Trump’s intervention – despite his earlier promises to avoid another “forever war” – threatens to enlarge the conflict dramatically after Israel launched an unprecedented bomb campaign against Iran last week. Tehran swores to retaliate when Washington joined.
Previously, the US President said Washington would hit more goals if Tehran was not surrendered. Hours later, Iran started two waves of attack against the long -time enemy of Israel.
“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, now has to make peace,” said Trump and warned future attacks “by far”, unless a diplomatic solution would be achieved.
“Remember there are still many goals,” he added.
The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of sabotaging diplomacy after talks with European powers.
“This week we had talks with the E3/EU when the United States decided to chase this diplomacy up in the air,” he continued X.
Araghchi later said reporters in Istanbul that the United States, and Israel had “exceeded a very large red line” and claimed that Iran would continue to defend “on all necessary means”.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the US strikes and said that the attack unveiled Washington was the “main factor behind the Israeli military campaign.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the US strikes and said Trump’s decision, “to destroy the nuclear institutions of Iran with the fantastic and just power of the United States.”
“Tomorrow of the alarms”
The Israeli military said that it had checked the results of the US raids on the deep -buried nuclear situation in Fordo. A spokesman said it was “too early” to know whether Iran enriched uranium was buried by the attack by the key location.
The US Vice President JD Vance claimed that his country was “not in the war against Iran, we are in the war with the nuclear program of Iran”.
He added that the strikes had “essentially delayed” the development of a nuclear weapon – something that Iran has long followed.
Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs, said the “main strike package from 7 B-2-Spirit Bombers” fly for 18 hours from mainland to Iran with several air tension.
The head of the Red Crescent Society in Iranian Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, said that, according to Iranian state television, there are no deaths in the US strikes in the nuclear facilities.
In response to the US attack, the Iranian armed forces, aimed at several locations in Israel, including Ben Gurion Airport, gave the country’s international gateway near Tel Aviv.
Israeli rescuers said at least 23 people were injured. The police said at least three effects had been reported.
One of them was the Ramat Aviv area of Tel Aviv, which teared holes in the facades of apartment blocks.
In Jerusalem, Claudio Hazan, a 62-year-old software engineer, said he hoped that US intervention would accelerate an end to the Iranian Israel war. “Israel itself would not stop … and it would take longer,” he said.
David, a 43-year-old inhabitant of Jerusalem, told AFP: “We are all happy that the USA is lending a hand.”
Israel said it started fresh strikes on the western Iran and in Qom south of Tehran. The Iranian official IRNA news agency reported that four members of the revolutionary guard had been killed on a military base in the north of the city.
The Israeli military said that “rocket launchers who were ready to start Israeli areas, soldiers in the Iranian armed forces, and the launchers, who recently launched the rockets into the Israeli area, quickly neutralized”.
The Iranian Shargh newspaper reported that on Sunday in the province of Bushehr a “massive explosion” could be heard in which the only nuclear power plant of Iran lived.
‘Step back’
The Iranian news agencies also reported on strikes in the province of Yazd.
In Tehran, AFP journalists said that aircraft roaring over the city was repeatedly heard for the first time since Israel’s first attacks.
The UN International Nuclear Energy Agency said that after the strikes she had not increased the radiation level at important core areas in Iran, and Tehran said on Sunday that there were “no signs of contamination”.
Saudi Arabia said that no radioactive effects were found in the Golf and that “great concern” about the strikes of the United States were expressed.
The United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman, who conveyed the nuclear talks in Iran-USA, criticized the US parade and urged the duck.
The European Union asked all sides to “resign” while Iran is not allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starrer asked Iran to “return to the negotiating table” through his nuclear ambitions.
The Iranian Foreign Minister said he would travel to Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
After his speech, Trump warned Iran of “retribution”. Iran and its deputies have previously attacked US military bases in Iraq and elsewhere in the region.
The Iranian Huthi ally in Yemen on Sunday repeated her threat to resume attacks in the Red sea When Washington joined the war and said they were “ready to focus on the US ships and warships”.
The US President had strengthened his rhetoric against Iran since Israel had met Iran for the first time on June 13, and repeated his insistence that he could never have nuclear weapons.
Tehran denies looking for an atomic bomb. On Saturday, President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Iranian law to pursue a civilian nuclear program “cannot be taken away by threats or war”.
