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The US struck several key Iranian nuclear facilities early Sunday, including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. During an address at the White House, US President Donald Trump claimed the sites were “totally obliterated” and warned the US could go after additional targets if Iran does not make peace.

• American B-2 bombers were used in the strikes, and sources said the US also utilized a 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb. It’s the first known instance of the bomb being used operationally.

• Iranian officials are downplaying the impact of the strikes, with one lawmaker saying they were “superficial” and did not seriously damage Fordow. Iranian leaders have warned the attack will have “everlasting consequences,” and requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. There has not yet been an official response from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Israel-Iran conflict hasentered its second week, with both sides still trading strikes. After the US strikes, Israel’s military said Iran fired a fresh wave of missiles toward the country.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Sunday that there had been no reported increases in off-site radiation levels at the three Iranian nuclear sites targeted in US strikes.

It marks the IAEA’s first public comments since the US attacks.

Iran has been increasingly critical of the IAEA since the conflict with Israel erupted, and Iranian officials have accused the agency of being complicit in the US strikes, without providing evidence. The IAEA maintains it is a neutral global watchdog.

President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation from the White House on Saturday night, following US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

In a national address Saturday night, US President Donald Trump warned that Iran “must now make peace” – or face additional attacks on more targets that “will be far greater and a lot easier.”

But it’s not clear what exactly he means by “make peace,” or what steps Iran would have to taketo meet that demand.

Trump did not elaborate on his statement, though he warned on social media afterward that any Iranian retaliation would be met with force. Iran fired a new wave of missiles at Israel on Sunday morning.

At first, Trump had been eager to craft a nuclear deal – something he had been pushing for weeks before Israel’s initial attack on Iran. He continued to stress the idea even after Israel struck, claiming Iran wanted to make a deal.

But as the strikes continued, his tone began to change. On Tuesday, he said he wanted “an end, a real end, not a ceasefire. An end. Or giving up entirely. That’s OK, too.”

Later Tuesday, he took an even stronger stance, posting two words on Truth Social in all caps: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”

After warming to the idea of the US military getting involved, Trump announced a self-imposed two-week deadline on Thursday to decide whether or not to strike Iran.

He justified his pause by stating the need to give diplomacy one last try, saying he would make his decision based on the “substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future.”

On Saturday evening Eastern Time, the US struck Iran, targeting three key nuclear sites and officially entering US forces into another conflict in the Middle East.

It’s not clear what version of “peace” Trump now means this time: a nuclear deal; further negotiations with Tehran; or a full “unconditional surrender.”

Rescuers and security personnel work at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday.

Buildings have been severely damaged in Tel Aviv after being struck by an Iranian missile, emergency responders have said.

“This is a large-scale destruction site. Several two-story residential buildings were severely damaged, and some collapsed,” said emergency services agency Magen David Adom (MDA).

Video released by emergency services showed parts of a building reduced to rubble and significant damage to other buildings in the surrounding area.

A large number of emergency responders were on the scene.

Israel Police said officers and bomb disposal units were at the scene of munition fall in central Israel.

A city official in the northern city of Haifa also confirmed an impact in the city.

Residents evacuate from the site in Haifa, Israel, following an Iranian missile strike on Sunday.

Israeli emergency responders previously said they were heading to at least 10 scenes following the latest wave of Iranian missile strikes.

“Search and Rescue forces are operating in several locations across the country in which reports of fallen projectiles were received,” the Israel Defense Forces said.

Eleven people were wounded in the strikes, according to MDA.

Iran has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, it said in a letter issued Sunday, urging the council to condemn the US strikes on its nuclear facilities.

In the letter, Iran’s ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani called the US attack a “grave threat against regional and international peace and security.” He confirmed the details of the attack, which targeted the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites in the early hours of Sunday morning.

He also allegedthe attacks were “under the full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency,” the UN’s nuclear watchdog. He did not provide evidence for the claim. Iran has been increasingly critical of the IAEA since the conflict with Israel erupted.

The strikes violate the UN charter and the international Non-Proliferation Treaty, he added in the letter, urging an emergency meeting “to examine this unlawful act, adopt necessary measures to condemn it and ensure that those responsible will not be left unpunished.”

Officials in Iran are downplaying the impact of US strikes on its nuclear facilities, particularly the Fordow site buried deep in the mountains, in sharp contrast with US President Donald Trump’s claims that the attack “obliterated” them.

Manan Raeisi, an Iranian lawmaker representing Qom – the holy city near the Fordow nuclear site – claimed early Sunday that the attack was “quite superficial” and had not seriously damaged the facility.

“Based on precise information, I am able to state that contrary to the claims of the lying president of the United States, the Fordow nuclear installation has not been seriously damaged. Most of the affected areas were above ground and can be fully restored,” said Raeisi, according to the state-affiliated Fars news agency.

No deaths have been reported at Fordow, he added.

A Fars correspondent on the ground near Fordow said he witnessed air defenses activated in the early hours of Sunday morning. At one point he saw a fire break out and heard explosions – but the flames weren’t high and died down in a few minutes, he reported.

Anchors on Iran’s state-owned Press TV also claimed, without providing evidence, that the strikes had only damaged the entrance and exit tunnels at Fordow, not the facility itself.

Besides Fordow, the US also struck the Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites.

Speaking from the White House in a national address Saturday night local time, Trump claimed the attacks had been a “spectacular military success” and that the three sites targeted were “completely and totally obliterated.”

Raeisi, the Iranian lawmaker, said that Iran views this attack as “a direct entry of the United States into this war” and that Iran would now determine how to respond to “this brazen act of foolishness.”

Data from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) showed two heat patterns near Iran's Fordow nuclear facility on Sunday morning.

Data from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) showed two heat patterns near Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility earlier on Sunday morning local time.

The first heat signature was detected at 2:29 a.m. (6.59 p.m. ET) according to the data, with a second detected at 2:54 a.m. (7:24 p.m. ET).

Both heat signatures were detected before US President Donald Trump first announced the strikes in a post on Truth Social at 7:50 p.m. ET.

No other heat signatures have been recorded near the Fordow facility since Israel struck Iran on June 13.

NASA collects this data to detect thermal anomalies around the world, such as sustained fires. FIRMS timestamps do not reflect the exact time fires began.

Israeli emergency responders are heading to 10 scenes, following reports of impacts from the latest wave of Iranian missiles on Sunday morning.

“Following the alarms that were heard in the last few minutes, MDA teams went out to search the scenes where reports were received,” said emergency agency Magen David Adom in a statement.

A CNN producer in Jerusalem reported hearing explosions over the city and video showed several projectiles in the sky above.

Israel’s military earlier said its defensive systems were operating, after issuing a warning of a new wave of missiles, the first since the US confirmed it had bombed Iran.

Warning sirens also went off in Jordan, which lies in between Israel and Iran.

An image taken on June 19th shows a line of sixteen dump trucks near the entrances, along with earthmoving equipment.

Satellite imagery taken before the US strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility suggests there may have been attempts to reinforce the entrances of the mountainside complex.

In the days leading up to the US strikes on the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, satellite imagery appears to show dirt accumulated in front of at least two of the underground facility’s entrances.

An image taken on June 19 shows a line of 16 dump trucks near the entrances, along with earthmoving equipment.

In an image taken the following day, portions of the road into the tunnels appear to be covered by dirt as loaded dump trucks continue to drive up to the tunnel entrances. Nearby earthmoving equipment can be seen scooping up soil.

Graphic by Thomas Bordeaux

The secretive, heavily guarded Fordow complex is built deep into a mountainside and is therefore reinforced against an attack. Its main halls are an estimated 80 to 90 meters (around 262 to 295 feet) beneath the ground. Analysts and Israeli officials have said only the US had bombs big enough to penetrate the complex.

Missile streaks are seen in the sky over Jerusalem on Sunday, as Iran fires towards Israel for the first time since the US carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Israel’s military says Iran has fired a fresh wave of missiles toward the country, and urged people to take shelter.

“A short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

“Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” it said, adding that the public was “instructed to enter a protected space and remain there until further notice.”

The new wave of missiles is the first Iran has launched since the US announced it had attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi following a meeting with the E3 group of European ministers in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday.

Iran’s foreign minister has condemned the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, warning that they will have “everlasting consequences.”

“The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences,” Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X, adding that Iran “reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people.”

Iran has spent decades developing its nuclear program and sees it as a source of national pride and sovereignty. It has maintained that the program is solely for peaceful energy purposes.

Nuclear plants require a fuel called uranium – and according to the UN nuclear watchdog, no other country has the kind of uranium that Iran currently does without also having a nuclear weapons program. That has fueled suspicions that Iran isn’t being fully transparent about its intentions.

It is too early for a reliable battle damage assessment of the US strikes on Iran, an Israeli intelligence official told CNN.

The official said that assessment will come after daybreak when aerial assets can determine the damage. However, officials will need additional intelligence, including communication intercepts, to truly assess the full extent of the damage to Iran’s three key nuclear facilities.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a trip to Germany in May.

Israeli leaders have continued thanking US President Donald Trump after the American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, describing the attack as decisive and historic.

President Isaac Herzog said the strikes are a “decisive moment.”

“This brave step serves the security and safety of the entire free world,” Herzog said, adding that he hoped it would “advance the urgent release of our hostages held in captivity in Gaza.”

Earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the strikes made the US-Israel alliance stronger.

“The alliance between the United States and Israel is now stronger than ever – for the sake of peace and security for both nations and for the entire free world,” Katz said.

Katz called Trump’s decision to strike “historic,” saying that allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons would “endanger Israel, the countries of the region, and the national security interests of the United States itself.”

And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an address: “Congratulations President Trump, your bold decision to target Iran’s nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history.”

“President Trump and I often say: ‘Peace through strength.’ First comes strength, then comes peace. And tonight, President Trump and the United States acted with a lot of strength,” Netanyahu added.

CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson, who is currently in the Israeli commercial hub Tel Aviv, said there’s a “sense of Israel putting itself at a greater readiness than it has been over the past few days.”

He said the Home Front Command has “an updated instruction as of about two or three hours ago that will be something people are waking up to.”

People have been told to only “gather when it is essential,” Robertson said.

President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation at the White House on Saturday, following US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

It’s now early morning in the Middle East, a region now bracing for the unknown after the US officially entered the Iran-Israel conflict on Sunday by launching strikes at several key Iranian nuclear facilities.

The actions have been described by President Donald Trump as “successful,” but also risk escalating the two week conflict further, with Iran previously vowing any attack by the US would trigger retaliation.

Here are the latest developments:

A prominent adviser to Iran’s supreme leader has called for missile strikes on US Navy ships and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping route.

“Following America’s attack on the Fordow nuclear installation, it is now our turn,” warned Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of the hardline Kayhan newspaper, a well-known conservative voice who has previously identified himself as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “representative.”

A Telegram message from Kayhan quoted Shariatmadari as saying: “Without hesitation or delay, as a first step we must launch missile strikes on the American naval fleet based in Bahrain and simultaneously close the Strait of Hormuz to American, British, German, and French shipping.”

The message ended with a quote from the Quran, which read: “Kill them wherever you shall overtake (find)them.”

There has been no official response yet from Supreme Leader Khamenei to the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Iran’s atomic agency has condemned the US attacks on three of the country’s nuclear facilities and vowed “never” to stop its nuclear program, according to Iranian media.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which oversees Iran’s nuclear technology, said the three key sites – Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan – came under “savage assault” in the early hours of Sunday morning, reported the state-affiliated IRNA news agency.

The agency described the strikes as a “blatant violation of international law, particularly the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT),” and accused the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), of “complicity.”

It urged the international community to support Iran and condemn the US strikes, and vowed to “never allow the progress of this national industry … to be halted.”

President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House, as seen on a television monitor in the James Brady Press Briefing Room, on Saturday.

President Donald Trump described the US military strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities as a “spectacular military success” in a national address from the White House Cross Hall on Saturday night.

“Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump said in his first public remarks since the strikes were carried out.

He also warned that the US could go after additional targets if Iran does not make peace, advocating for a diplomatic resolution following his decision to strike a trio of Iranian nuclear sites Saturday.

Trump warned that the US could “go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill,” which he said could be done “in a matter of minutes.”

After his address, Trump took to social media to issue a stark warning to Iran, vowing overwhelming retaliation if Iran responds with force.

The US has struck three key nuclear sites in Iran, President Donald Trump said Saturday evening. The sites are Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz, which lie at the heart of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The nuclear complex, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) south of the capital Tehran, is considered Iran’s largest uranium enrichment facility.

Analysts say it is used to develop and assemble centrifuges for uranium enrichment, a key technology that turns uranium into nuclear fuel.

Natanz has six above-ground buildings and three underground structures, two of which can hold 50,000 centrifuges, according to the non-profit Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).

Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity at its above-ground Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Weapons-grade uranium is enriched to 90%.

Much is still unknown about the full size and nature of this facility, located close to the holy city of Qom and buried deep in a group of mountains. A good chunk of what we do know comes from a trove of Iranian documents stolen years ago by Israeli intelligence.

The main halls are an estimated 80 to 90 meters (around 262 to 295 feet) beneath the ground. The US is the only country with the kind of bomb required to strike that deep, Israeli officials and independent reports have previously said.

Recent IAEA reports suggested Iran had ramped up production of enriched uranium to a level of 60% at Fordow. The facility now contains 2,700 centrifuges, according to experts and the IAEA.

Isfahan: Isfahan, in central Iran, is home to the country’s largest nuclear research complex.

The facility was built with support from China and opened in 1984, according to the NTI. According to NTI, 3,000 scientists are employed at Isfahan, and the site is “suspected of being the center” of Iran’s nuclear program.

It “operates three small Chinese-supplied research reactors,” as well as a “conversion facility, a fuel production plant, a zirconium cladding plant, and other facilities and laboratories,” the NTI says.

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