Trump Pressures Iran to Make Peace, Threatening More U.S. Strikes

US President Donald Trump said in an address to the nation that US strikes had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s three main nuclear facilities, and threatened further military action if Tehran did not make peace with Israel.

“This cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days,” Trump said Saturday night in a three-minute speech from the White House.

“Remember, there are many targets left,” the president added. “Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill.”

Trump said US forces hit nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan, calling the strikes “a spectacular military success.”

“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” the president said. “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater — and a lot easier.”

Trump warned Iran in a social media post shortly after his remarks that “ANY RETALIATION BY IRAN AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL BE MET WITH FORCE FAR GREATER THAN WHAT WAS WITNESSED TONIGHT. THANK YOU! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.”

Trump was flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The president stated that the Pentagon chief would hold a press conference on Sunday to discuss the strikes further.

The attacks mark one of the most consequential decisions of Trump’s second term in the White House.

They drastically raise the stakes in a conflict that threatens to further destabilize the region and expand into a larger war in the Middle East, as Iran has threatened to retaliate if the US joins Israel’s attack.

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  • The United States has joined Israel’s attack on Iran by striking three nuclear sites, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, on June 21.
  • President Donald Trump, in remarks late Saturday, said the United States “obliterated” Iranian nuclear facilities key to enrichment.
  • U.S. airstrikes on the three nuclear sites involved 75 weapons, including 14 bunker-buster bombs carried by stealth bombers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said on Sunday.

U.S. strikes inflicted “extremely severe damage” on the nuclear sites, Caine said.

  • President Donald Trump, in remarks late Saturday, vowed “far greater” attacks if Iran doesn’t make peace.
  • The United States worked as a team with Israel in the strikes, Trump said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump for the strikes.
  • Responding to the strikes, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday said the United States is “fully responsible” for the consequences of the attack.

Enrichment Plant Unclear: UN

Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency, stated that it’s currently not possible to assess the damage to Iran’s main uranium enrichment plant, Fordow.

On June 21, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Fordow, alongside the nuclear sites at Isfahan and Natanz, had been “completely and totally obliterated” in U.S. strikes.

Grossi told the U.N. Security Council, in an emergency meeting called by Iran on Sunday, that while craters are visible at Fordow, the damage to the underground facilities can’t yet be assessed.

“At this time, no one, including the IAEA, is in a position to assess the underground damage at Fordo,” Grossi said.

Grossi said that at the Isfahan site, “entrances to tunnels used for the storage of enriched material appear to have been hit.”

He also confirmed that the fuel enrichment plant at the Natanz site has been hit.

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