{"id":68747,"date":"2025-06-22T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68747"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:55:50","slug":"trump-confirms-u-s-airstrikes-on-irans-nuclear-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/22\/trump-confirms-u-s-airstrikes-on-irans-nuclear-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Confirms U.S. Airstrikes on Iran\u2019s Nuclear Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that the United States carried out coordinated airstrikes on three of Iran\u2019s major nuclear facilities; Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan on Saturday night, June 21, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on his social media page, Trump described the operation as a \u201cvery successful attack,\u201d revealing that American aircraft dropped a full payload of bombs on the key nuclear site at Fordow before exiting Iranian airspace safely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All planes are now outside of Iran airspace\u2026 Congratulations to our great American warriors,\u201d Trump wrote, adding, \u201cNOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. defense officials, the operation was executed using B-2 Spirit stealth bombers equipped with GBU-57A\/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators, 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs engineered to destroy fortified underground facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Fordow, deeply embedded in a mountain, was reportedly the primary target due to its high-level uranium enrichment activities and proliferation risks.<\/p>\n<p>Military analysts note that the B-2 Spirit, among the most advanced aircraft in the U.S. arsenal, offers unmatched precision and stealth capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>With a 40,000-pound payload and aerial refueling capacity, the B-2 can deliver both nuclear and conventional weapons undetected.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes follow heightened tensions in the Middle East amid recent hostilities between Iran and Israel, raising concerns over broader regional instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Former U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that the United States carried out coordinated airstrikes on three of Iran\u2019s major nuclear facilities; Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan on Saturday night, June 21, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nations. In a statement posted on his social media page, Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68749,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747\/revisions\/68749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}