Trump Orders Attack on Iran Nuke Sites After Ayatollah Rejects Deal

June 22—President Donald Trump yesterday afternoon ordered U.S. strikes on 3 Iranian nuclear enrichment sites, including Fordow, embedded deep in a mountain, using precision heavy munitions, including 15-ton bunker buster bombs.

The attacks followed a war plan already put in placed by Trump, which rejected the option of using tactical nuclear weapons, and were carried out solely by U.S. forces, and not jointly with Israeli aircraft, as Israel's messianic Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu had requested, sources report.

At 7:50 p.m. EDT, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Sources report that 14 total bunker buster bombs were used, and that preliminary evaluation, from satellite imagery as well as on the ground reporting from agents and assets, is that the targets, including the embedded Fordow site, were totally or mostly destroyed. Other sources, however, that such reports are preliminary and further work will have to be done to reach a proper conclusion.

Deal Collapse After Ayatollah’s Rejection

These sources report that Trump made the decision after he was informed by his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been conducting furious negotiations with various parties, including the Iranians, the Omanis, the Russians and others to strike an acceptable deal that would end Iran's nuclear weapons program, that the outline for a deal that could be quickly worked up and signed had been accepted by the Iranian government, but was rejected by the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was Witkoff's opinion that no deal was possible within the 2-week timeframe that Trump had set for his decision on whether to strike Iran.

Then let's go now, the President said, according to sources, after he confirmed that resources were already in place and the attack could go on his command.

Trump Declares “Spectacular Success,” Warns Iran

At 10:00 pm EDT, Trump spoke to the nation, declaring the operation a “spectacular success,” that hit the “world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” saying, “They must now make peace.” He congratulated Bibi Netanyahu and the Israeli military, saying we “worked like a team, as never before,” and congratulated the American military and the “wonderful machines” which dropped the bombs, saying “hopefully we’ll no longer need their services in this capacity,” but threatening that “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.”

Axios News reported that Trump had informed Israel prior to the strikes, quoting a senior Israeli official. Citing unnamed sources, CBS News reports that the U.S. sent a message to Iran following tonight’s strikes, insisting that they were limited to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and that Washington is not seeking regime change, in an apparent attempt at de-escalation.

Putin Briefed; Russian Response Mixed

Other sources report that Trump also informed Russian President Vladimir Putin of his intention to strike the nuclear sites, stressing that he does not want to destroy the nation of Iran or plunge it into chaos, and that American attacks were limited to its nuclear program. Thus far, there has been no direct response to the attack from Putin himself.

But one of Putin's allies, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, has offered a blunt—and bleak—assessment: "Trump, who came in as a peacemaker president, has started a new war for the U.S. With this kind of success, Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize."

"Iran's political regime has been preserved, and it is highly likely that it has become stronger," Medvedev said. "The people are consolidating around the spiritual leadership, even those who did not sympathize with it."

Medvedev also said that Iran's nuclear infrastructure did not appear to be seriously affected by the U.S. strikes, and that the U.S. was in danger of being drawn into a ground operation.

Fears of Wider War and Questions About Strategy

The Russian leader will have a chance to assert some influence in the crisis. The Russians had been working hard on the deal which Witkoff said was rejected by the Ayatollah. The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has also wanted a deal rather war to settle the matter, will head a delegation to Moscow for consultations with Putin and others.

The U.S. is now bracing for some kind of Iranian response, which sources hope might be limited to military targets. "Trump can then bluster and strike something," said a source, "but it need not spill over into civilian targets, which would complicate possible future negotiations."

These sources worry that Trump might stumble further into the trap set for him by Bibi and his British/NATO sponsors. The more he becomes involved in what Bibi wants to be a forever war in the region, the more Trump separates himself form his political base, and potentially set himself up for assassination—not from Iran, as fake Israeli and NATO intelligence says—but from the same NATO assassination bureau, which were behind the attacks on him last summer.

"Unless the plug is pulled on this war soon," a source concluded, "the fear is its sets in motion a deadly endgame of terror and war in the region, and around the world. That's the universe NATO wants to create with its puppets like Bibi and its dictator in Ukraine [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy."

This and other sources doubted that anyone, the U.S. included, could militarily destroy Iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon. The Iranians said today that much of the equipment and most of the personnel had been evacuated to other sites before the attack. But more importantly, Iran as an advanced nation with a large scientific cadre, especially of young people, possesses the know how to build a bomb, with the help of any fast computer bought on Ebay or Amazon. "The only solution is a diplomatic one," said the source. "You have to give them a reason not to build or use a bomb. And then of course, you have the knowledge that Israel has nuclear weapons and a secret nuclear program. Somehow, its okay for a nation committing genocide against the Palestinian people to have a bomb, but Iran cannot?"