U.S. enters war on Iran, strikes nuclear facilities

Putting an end to over a week of uncertainty and anticipation, the U.S. attacked Iran early on Sunday, targeting three Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

In the early hours of Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a televised statement that “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated adding that Iran, must make peace now or risk future attacks.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Trump for striking Iran, stating that the U.S. decision to join Israel’s war “will change history.” Netanyahu added that history will record that the U.S. acted to deny Iran “the most dangerous weapons.”

In Iran, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said in a statement on Sunday that the organization would take “necessary measures, including legal action,” to preserve Iran’s rights, noting that the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear sites was “a violation of international law.”

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that “peaceful Iranian nuclear technology can not be destroyed in any attack,” asserting that the U.S. has “put itself on the front lines of aggression against Iran.”