It’s official: The United States is at war with Iran
The US attacks Iran
The New York Times reports that US planes and submarines have attacked three of Iran’s nuclear sites, effectively getting Washington involved in Israel’s war against Teheran and causing fear and concern all over the map.
Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan
Al Jazeera reveals that the US military attacked nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan and that US planes were currently out of Iran’s airspace.
Obliterated
According to The New York Times, President Trump addressed the nation shortly after the attacks were carried, describing the nuclear sites as “completely and totally obliterated.”
Image: Fordow Fuel Enrichment Facility in Iran, a few days before the attack
Justified?
Trump justified the military action saying it was, “The destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror.”
Iran's response
Al Jazeera writes that Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, described the attacks as “outrageous” and warned that the US attacks on “peaceful nuclear installations” would have “everlasting consequences”.
Standing against the US
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its right to stand with all its might against US military aggression and the crimes committed by this rogue regime, and to defend the security and national interests of Iran,” Araghchi added, as quoted by Al Jazeera.
Ayatollah in hiding
According to The New York Times, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Al Khamenei would typically address the Iranian nation in these cases, but the country’s head of state is assumed to be hiding in a bunker, with all electronic communications suspended.
Praises from Israel
Meanwhile, The New York Times highlights that the Tel Aviv government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, applauded the coordinated attack by the military forces of Israel and the United States.
History will absolve them?
“History will record that President Trump acted to deny the world’s most dangerous regime the world’s most dangerous weapons,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared, as cited by The New York Times.
Another long-term conflict in the Middle East
Adam Weinstein, the deputy director of the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told Al Jazeera that the United States could get dragged into another long-term conflict in the Middle East.
