“Remember, Iran cannot have any nuclear weapons. Very simple. Don’t have to go too deep into it. They just can’t have nuclear weapons.” “Iran’s leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

Ballistic experts say it's too soon to determine how much damage Iran's nuclear facilities sustained in the weekend attack. On Saturday night, the United States targeted nuclear sites in Iran believed to be essential to the country's ability to produce nuclear weapons: a uranium enrichment site located in northwestern Iran -- deep inside a mountain in Fordo -- along with another uranium enrichment site in Natanz and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center,

Israel ratcheted up attacks on Iran even as Tehran vowed to retaliate against US strikes on its nuclear facilities over the weekend, fueling fears of a wider war in the Middle East and rattling global markets.

US President Donald Trump quickly heralded the US strikes on Iran as a “spectacular military success,” saying the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities were “totally obliterated.”

Following the U.S. attack on Iran nuclear facilities over the weekend, local lawmakers have taken to social media to issue statements on the events.

President Donald Trump’s MAGA sphere of conservative media and influencers — many of whom had expressed skepticism before his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities — is divided over the president’s dramatic move to strike.

Bombed by the US in a dramatic escalation, this mountainside enrichment plant south of Tehran is vital to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and central to Israel’s efforts to dismantle them.