United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday morning that seven B-2 bombers and 14 GBU-57 antibunker pumps, each with 13 tons, were responsible for the attack that hit the nuclear facilities of Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan in Iran.
“We are still analyzing all the damage caused, but this was a precise, successful attack that reached the desired targets to destroy the Iranian nuclear program and that no other country in the world would be able to accomplish,” Hegseth said at a press conference at the Pentagon hours after Operation “Midnight Hammer” (Midnight hammer in English), next to the armed forces chief of staff, Dan Caine.
“We devastate the Iranian nuclear program without focusing on troops or civilians. B-2 bombers have entered and left the Iranian territory without the world know. This is not the previous management. President Trump said no to Iran’s nuclear weapons. He looks for peace and the Iranians must take this way. When the president speaks, the world must hear,” the Secretary of Defense, who also stressed that, warned that if he had, if he had, if he had, if he had, Retaliation by the Iranians, “it will be answered with much greater force than the witnessed today.”
The head of the US-arranged forces brought military details of the Middle East offensive, which featured the launch of 75 guided weapons during his attack on Iran last night. “We used seven B-2 bombers and 14 antibunker bombs. This operation was carefully planned, and few people in Washington were aware of her,” he said. “This is the biggest B-2 attack of recent times and the second largest ever performed, behind only the operations that succeeded September 11,” he added.
Iran
Hours after the attack, Iran’s Foreign Minister Araqchi said the United States “betrayed diplomacy” and “crossed all red lines” after attacks on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
Araqchi said he will travel to Moscow in the coming days to seek a solution with Vladimir Putin, called by him “an old ally of Iran.” “Attacking a nuclear installation is an unforgivable violation of international law and must be convicted. My country has been beaten, and we must respond in our legitimate right to self -defense, and we will do it for the time it is necessary,” the minister said in an interview in Istanbul, where he participates in the 51st summit of the organization for Islamic cooperation.
During Sunday’s conference, Hegseth stressed that the US had only one goal by invading Iranian airspace: to destroy the nuclear operations of the Persian country. “The United States does not seek war. This attack is not intended to change the regime of Iran,” he said.
