A new series of satellite images has revealed the precision of the US attacks on Iran’s primary nuclear facility.
President Donald Trump last night ordered six B-2 stealth bombers to drop a dozen 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs on the base hidden deep inside a mountain in Fordo, 80 miles south of Tehran.
‘The strikes were a spectacular military success,’ Trump said in a late-night address from the White House, before warning that he wants peace now or that there will be dire consequences.
In the aftermath, Iran’s foreign minister has branded Trump a ‘lawless bully’ who ‘betrayed’ diplomacy as he warned the world has been thrown into an ‘unprecedented level of danger’.
The newly-released images show the exactitude of military attacks, which Trump claimed flattened the facility.
The satellite imagery shows the exact ‘strike area’ on the Fordow Nuclear Facility, which the B-2 stealth bombers hit as well as possible bomb ‘entry points’.
Annotated to show the areas clearly, the images also suggest ‘possible subsidence’ of land which has been caved inwards after the strikes.
In response, Iran this morning targeted Israel which has left at least 16 people injured, including a young man with shrapnel wounds to his upper body, according to emergency services.
The attacks on Israel are understood to have started at around 6.30am GMT (8.30am IST) this morning – just hours after the US’s strikes on Iran.
Addressing Trump’s attack at a press conference today, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said: ‘Humanity has come too far as a species to allow a lawless bully to take us back to the law of the jungle.’
He ordered ‘urgent and decisive action’ must now be taken by the United Nations and other International bodies, adding that ‘silence’ will ‘plunge the world into an unprecedented level of danger’.
Sir Keir Starmer said the US took action to ‘alleviate’ the ‘grave threat’ of Iran’s nuclear programme – but urged Iran to return to the ‘negotiating table’ to end the conflict.
The UK Prime Minister said in a statement: ‘Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security.
‘Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat.
‘The situation in the Middle East remains volatile and stability in the region is a priority.
‘We call on Iran to return to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis.’
Trump branded the US’s strikes a ‘spectacular military success,’ stating that Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities ‘have been completely and totally obliterated’.
