Donald Trump says Iran's key nuclear facilities ‘obliterated’ by US :::: Buried under a mountain Fordow Nuke plant of Iran was "beyond" the limits of Israeli airstrikes.

 In a post on social media earlier, the US president said ‘A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. 

Given its fortification, it will probably be days before the 'impact' of the strikes on Fordow are known.

Buried under a mountain and protected by anti-aircraft batteries, the Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant was believed to be beyond the limit of Israeli airstrikes. 

Taking Fordow offline is seen as central to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found the site had enriched uranium to 83.7% – close to the 90% needed for nuclear weapons

All planes are safely on their way home’.

Israel-Iran war live: Trump says key nuclear facilities ‘obliterated’ by US; missiles hit Israel after Iran launches retaliatory strikes

President Donald Trump on Saturday said that a US attack on Iran’s three principal nuclear sites: Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow had led to the “obliteration” of its key enrichment facilities. Later Iranian media acknowledged part of the Fordow site had been “attacked by enemy strikes”.

“Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horrible destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility,” said Trump on Saturday night. “The strikes were a spectacular military success.”

The decision to directly involve the US comes after more than a week of strikes by Israel on Iran that have moved to systematically eradicate the country’s air defences and offensive missile capabilities, while damaging its nuclear enrichment facilities.  

The bomb carries a conventional warhead, and is believed to be able to penetrate about 200ft (61 metres) below the surface before exploding, and the bombs can be dropped one after another, effectively drilling deeper and deeper with each successive blast.  

Israel has appealed to Trump for US bunker-busting bombs, the 30,000lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, which uses its weight and sheer kinetic force to reach deeply buried targets and then explode. It can be delivered only by the B-2 stealth bomber, which is only found in the American arsenal.  

After the strikes, Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s move, adding that the “awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history”. The Israeli prime minister said in a video address, the US “has done what no other country on Earth could do”.

In turn, Trump thanked Netanyahu, saying they “worked as a team like perhaps 

no team has ever worked before”, and gone a long way towards “erasing this horrible threat to Israel”.  

Iranian missiles hit 10 Israeli locations -

Israeli emergency services have said about 10 sites were hit by Iran’s missiles, including in Tel Aviv, Carmel, and Haifa – which reportedly did not hear any alert sirens.

About 14 people are believed to have been injured, most not seriously. Rescuers are continuing to search the impact sites. Some buildings in Tel Aviv have been destroyed, Haaretz reports.  

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Sunday condemned the United States for launching airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling it a serious violation of international law, the UN Charter and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

In a strongly worded statement posted on X, Araghchi accused the US, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, of “criminal behavior” by targeting what he described as peaceful nuclear installations.