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Iran Strikes End Decades of Appeasement, Nuclear Intimidation
By Larry Bell
Monday, 23 June 2025 09:09 AM EDT
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On Saturday, "Operation Midnight" involving about 125 U.S. aircraft including seven B-2 stealth bombers each carrying two 30,000 pound "bunker buster bombs" along with about 30 submarine-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles eradicated Iran's near-term ability to execute repeated "Death to America, Death to Israel" threats issued throughout the 35-year reign of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The overall mission was remarkably ambitious in complexity, effective in strategic deception, and successful in execution, with no American casualties and none currently known for Iran at the time of this writing.
Shortly after midnight Eastern time, a total 13 B-2 stealth bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, of which six were sent to the Pacific Island of Guam as decoys, while seven proceeded east to Iran with fighter jets scouting the airspace ahead of them for possible enemy aircraft and surface-to-air missiles.
Shortly after 2 a.m. Iran time, all of the seven B-2 bombers released their massive payloads on two key underground nuclear weapon enrichment sites: six dropping a total 12 deeply penetrating bombs on a Fordow mountain site, and one releasing two on Natanz.
Due to travel time required, the Tomahawk missiles fired from a submarine 400 miles away didn't reach the third Iran target site at Isfahan until after all B-2s were leaving Iran airspace. These bombers were returning from their more than 15-hour nonstop round-trip flights around the world, a journey that required refueling from dozens of aerial tankers.
The devastatingly impactful U.S. actions followed earlier highly damaging Israeli attacks on the facilities along with Iran missile launching and aerial defense assets which commenced a day after President Donald Trump's 60-day deadline for a regime agreement to end their nuclear weapons program, and two days after he gave them a second ultimatum to negotiate or face dire consequences within two weeks.
This following decades of efforts by Iran mullahs to hide nuclear warfare ambitions behind a fig leaf cover of uranium enrichment for peaceful domestic energy purposes.
Initially slow-moving, the Iran nuclear program became a major priority called AMAD after the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. Fearing that they might come next under scrutiny from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that a secret Natanz uranium enrichment plant was discovered.
So, Tehran shifted — or camouflaged — their focus to embark on a clandestine high-enrichment Al-Ghadir project at Fordow, lamely claiming that their leadership hadn't authorized use for weaponry purposes.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/iran-nuclear-donald-trump/2025/06/23/id/1216071/
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