Trump shares post saying Fordow is ‘gone’
The US president shared a post from an open-source intelligence account stating that the heavily-fortified Fordow nuclear facility is “gone”.
Trump has been known to share information from unverified and frequently inaccurate sources on his social media account.
Iran official says part of Fordow attacked in ‘enemy airstrikes’
The Iranian Tasnim news agency is citing an official in Qom as saying that part of the Fordow nuclear site has come under attack.
“Hours ago, after Qom’s air defenses were activated and hostile targets were identified, part of the Fordow nuclear site was attacked by enemy airstrikes,” Morteza Heydari, a spokesman for the Qom Provincial Crisis Management Headquarters, was quoted as saying.
Trump did not seek Congress approval for strikes
The US Constitution gives lawmakers the power to declare war and authorise military activity. But Trump did not seek the approval of Congress before striking Iran.
In the Senate and House of Representatives, lawmakers from both major parties had put forward legislation to compel Trump to go to Congress before attacking Iran’s nuclear site. But Trump preempted the votes on the bills.
Houthi official says US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities is ‘beginning’ of war
Mohamed al-Farah, a member of the Yemeni group’s political bureau, says it is clear that Trump wants the hostilities to be quick and for the war to end. However, “destroying a nuclear facility here and there is not the end of the war, but it’s the beginning”, al-Farah said in a statement.
“The time of hit and run is gone.”
Hours earlier, the Houthis threatened to attack US ships in the Red Sea if Trump joined Israel in attacking Iran.
Ali Khamenei’s Telegram account shares previous warning to US
The Iranian supreme leader’s Telegram account has re-shared televised comments by Khamenei from Wednesday, in which he said that the US would be entering the Iran-Israel conflict “to its own detriment”.
“The damage it will suffer will be far greater than any harm Iran will encounter,” Khamenei says in the video.
No radioactive material at the targeted sites: Iranian state media
IRNA news agency quotes an official with the country’s public broadcaster as saying: “There are no materials in these three nuclear sites that cause radiation.”
The comment suggests that Iranian authorities may have removed enriched uranium from the facilities before they were bombed.
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