Hegseth holds a press conference that followed us from strikes on Iran
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and president of the heads of joint staff, Lieutenant-General Dan “Razin” Caine, held a press conference of the Pentagon early Sunday morning to relay details on the successful strikes of the American army on Iranian nuclear installations.
“Last night, on President Trump’s orders, the US central command made a precision strike in the middle of the night against three nuclear installations in Iran Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan to severely destroy or degrade the Iranian nuclear program,” said Hegseth on Sunday morning from the Pentagon.
“It was an incredible and crushing success,” said Hegseth. “The order we received from our commander -in -chief was concentrated. It was powerful, and it was clear that we devastated the Iranian nuclear program. But it should be noted that the operation did not target the Iranian troops or the Iranian people during the full time in power.”
The press conference took place after President Donald Trump on the nation at 10 p.m. Saturday evening, just hours after announcing successful strikes on Iranian nuclear installations.
“The mission has demonstrated in the world the level of joint and allied integration which speaks of the strength of our alliance and our joint forces,” continued Hegseth. “As President Trump said, the United States is not looking for war, but allow me to be clear that we will act quickly and decisively when our people, our partners or our interests are threatened. Iran should listen to the United States and know that it means.”
Caine addressed the media and explained the strikes, nicknamed “Operation Midnight Hammer”, included the use of submarines, dozens of Tomahawk terrestrial attack missiles and the “longer mission B-2 Spirit Bomber since 2001.”
“Around 5 pm, the standard time of the East East last night last night and just before the strike package entering Iran, an American submarine in the central command area launched more than two dozen Cruise missiles with Tomahawk land attack on surface infrastructure targets as often as the Midnight Hammer Strike Iranian Airspace operation. December tactics, “said Cain.
“It was a very classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the calendar or the nature of this plan, I will refer you to the graph on the side while I guide you through some of the operational details. At midnight Friday until Saturday morning, a large B-2 striking package composed of bombers launched from the American continent as part of the plan to maintain a tactical surprise. Keys here in Washington and Tampa, “he continued.
Trump addresses the nation on the “spectacular military success” of American strikes on Iranian nuclear installations
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth held a press conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Fox News / The Will Cain Show)
Trump announced that the United States had struck a trio of nuclear installations in Iran via a social post of truth on Saturday evening, which was preceded by media leaks of previous indication, such strikes were imminent.
The president ordered us to the B-2 stealth bombers to carry out strikes against the nuclear installations of Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan from Iran.
Five to six bunker-business bombs hit Fordwow’s nuclear site, Trump at Sean Hannity from Fox News told Trump shortly after announcing strikes on Saturday evening.
The installation of Isfahan, like Fordow, would be built underground, and required precision targeting and in -depth intelligence to succeed, Fox News reported. Meanwhile, thirty tomahawk missiles were dismissed against Natanz and Isfahan from American submarines.
Trump later addressed the White House nation when it was flanked by vice-president JD Vance, Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, where he announced that Iran’s nuclear installations had been “erased” and that the country was fell in a corner and “must now make peace”.
“Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and completely erased,” said Trump. “And Iran, the Middle East intimidator, must now make peace. If they do not do so. Future attacks would be much larger and easier.”
US vice-president JD Vance, from left to left, American president Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, and Pete Hegseth, US defense secretary, during a speech to the East House of the White House in Washington, DC, in the United States on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria / Reuters / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump had several times urged Iran To conclude an agreement on its nuclear program before concluding its nuclear installations, but the country has retired from the current talks with the United States scheduled for June 15 in Oman and refused to return to the table in the following days. Israel has preventively ordered strikes on Iran on June 12, while Israeli information indicated that the Iran’s nuclear program was progressing rapidly.
“Not time ago, the American army made massive precision strikes on the three main nuclear installations of the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan,” said Trump during his speech. “Everyone has heard these names for years while they were building this horribly destructive business. Our goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop of the nuclear threat posed by the godfather of the number one of the world. Tonight, I can point out to the world that strikes were a spectacular military success.”
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“For 40 years, Iran said:” Death in America. Death in Israel “. They killed our people, breathtaking their arms, moving legs with bombes by the road,” continued Trump. “It was their specialty. We lost more than a thousand people and hundreds of thousands through the Middle East and the whole world died accordingly of their hatred in particular.”
The president said that the United States worked as a team with Israel at the head of strikes
“I would like to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team, as maybe no team has ever worked before, and we have traveled a big way to erase this horrible threat to Israel. I would like to thank the great Israeli soldiers for the wonderful work. In several decades, “he said.
President Donald J. Trump in the situation room, June 21, 2025 (The White House via X)
Israel launched preventive strikes on Iran on June 12 after months of attempted nuclear negotiations and stopped and has followed a subsequent concern that Iran made its nuclear program progress. Netanyahu said shortly after strikes were needed to “retreat the Iranian threat to the very survival of Israel”.
Saturday evening strikes were unexpected on Saturday evening because Trump said Thursday that he would make a decision on Iran in the next two weeks, suggesting that such a strike would not take place during the weekend. While six B-2 bombers who were spotted heading west of Missouri to Guam on Saturday afternoon were lures and some of the “misleading treats set up to suggest that President Trump had perhaps returned the decision,” said Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin, during an appearance on Saturday evening when the news announced the new.
“These six B-2 bombers who headed west towards Guam, they would not have reached Iran in time to participate in this strike,” she said while speaking with Bret Baier de Fox News on Saturday evening. “So, that suggests that there was an additional B-1 package that may have stolen east of Whiteman Air Force’s base. Again, this was part of the deception. There were a lot of misleading treats to suggest that President Trump may have resumed the decision and that it would happen from now on.”
Trump has obtained bipartite praise from the Congress legislators for taking measures to prevent Iran, the main sponsor of terrorism in the world, from carrying out nuclear capacities.
However, other members of the Congress criticized Trump simultaneously for not asking for the approval of the congress before military strikes and raised concerns about the risk of war.
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not yet commented on strikes. The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi, however, said that diplomacy is an improbable option following American strikes.
The Iranian flags fly like shots and smoke from an Israeli attack on the rise of Sharan oil deposit, after Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. (Majid Asgaripour / Wana (Press Asia of Western Asia) via Reuters)
“Last week, we were in negotiations with the United States when Israel decided to explode this diplomacy. This week, we had talks with E3 / EU when the United States decided to explode this diplomacy,” Araghchi wrote on X. “What will do you make?”
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Araghchi said he would go to Moscow later Sunday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Iran enjoys “a strategic partnership”.
