How Trump Took The Decision To Strike Iran

Donald Trump’s decision to strike at Iran followed months of US assessment of the impact of the decision and a 60-day deadline given the regime in Tehran to reach an agreement on dismantling its nuclear programme.

Ahead of Saturday’s strikes on Iran, Trump’s aides gave Israel a heads up it was going to attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a five-hour meeting with top Israeli officials that lasted through the US strikes, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Donald Trump and Netanyahu spoke by phone again afterward, and the Israeli prime minister praised the US strike on Iran in a video message, saying it was carried out “with complete operational coordination between the IDF and the United States military.”

Trump officials had also notified some Gulf partners that it was ready to strike Iran within the coming days, but it did not specify targets and time frame, according to a source familiar with the matter. The message was delivered verbally, the source said, and there was a meeting at the White House where some of these Gulf partners were told.

Trump and his team were in contact with top congressional Republicans before Saturday’s strikes, but top Democrats were not told of his plans until after the bombs had dropped on Iran, according to multiple people familiar with the plans. Hegseth said Sunday that congressional leaders were notified “immediately” after planes were out of Iranian airspace.

The operation began at midnight Eastern Time Friday into Saturday morning. Caine said that B-2 bombers launched from the US, some headed West as a decoy while the rest “proceeded quietly to the East with minimal communications throughout the 18-hour flight.”

The unprecedented US operation involved seven stealth B2 bombers. All told, over 125 aircraft were involved, including the B2s, refueling tankers, reconnaissance planes and fighter jets.

At approximately 5 p.m. ET, Caine said, a US submarine “launched more than two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles against key surface infrastructure targets” at the Isfahan nuclear site.

And shortly after, at approximately 6:40 p.m. ET, or 2:10 a.m. local time, the lead B-2 bomber plane launched two bunker-buster bombs at Fordow nuclear site, Caine said, and the “remaining bombers then hit their targets.” Those additional targets were struck, Caine said, “between 6:40 p.m. ET and 7:05 p.m. ET.”

The US military then “began its return home,” Caine said, noting that no shots were fired by Iran at the US on the way in or out.

After US planes had left Iran, Trump revealed the strikes on the Iranian facilities to the world on his social media platform, Truth Social.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump wrote, adding that “a full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow.”

Source: CNN

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