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Breaking News: US Partners with Israel in Airstrikes, Targeting 3 Iranian Nuclear Facilities

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    The U.S. military launched strikes on three locations in Iran early Sunday, joining Israel’s mission to undermine Iran’s nuclear program. This move poses a significant risk as Tehran has threatened retaliation, potentially escalating into a broader regional conflict.

    The choice to involve the U.S. followed over a week of Israeli attacks aimed at systematically dismantling Iran’s air defense systems and missile capabilities, while also targeting its nuclear enrichment sites.

    U.S. and Israeli authorities have indicated that American stealth bombers, equipped with a unique 30,000-lb. bunker-buster bomb, provide the best opportunity to destroy the heavily fortified Iranian nuclear facilities hidden deep underground.

    President Donald Trump announced the. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that attacks targeted the country’s Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. The agency did not elaborate. Iran’s foreign minister said Iran reserves the right to retaliate.

    Here is the latest:

    Iran asks for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over US strikes

    Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations called on Sunday for an emergency Security Council meeting for what he described as America’s “heinous attacks and illegal use of force” against Iran.

    In a letter, obtained by the AP, Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, said that the U.N.’s most powerful body must “take all necessary measures” to hold the U.S. accountable under international law and the U.N. charter.

    “The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns and denounces in the strongest possible terms these unprovoked and premeditated acts of aggression, which have followed the large-scale military attack conducted by the Israeli regime on 13 June against Iran’s peaceful nuclear sites and facilities,” the letter continued.

    Israel’s army says Iranian missiles are incoming, asks people to go to shelters

    The Israeli military says it’s identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of Israel and says its defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat.

    The public has been asked to go to shelters and protected areas and remain there until further notice.

    Iran’s top diplomat warns US attacks on its nuclear sites ‘will have everlasting consequences’

    Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also said on X that Tehran “reserves all options” to retaliate. He’s the first ranking official to comment on the strikes on Isfahan, Fordo and Natanz by the Americans.

    “The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences,” Araghchi wrote.

    He added: “In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people.”

    Flames seen at Fordo nuclear site in Iran after US strike, report says

    Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency has published an account by one of its reporters, saying flames could be seen after the bombs hit the Fordo facility.

    Fars, which is believed close to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, said its reporter heard anti-aircraft fire around 2:05 a.m. local time and explosions two minutes later.

    “When I reached the vicinity … the air defense system was operating intensely, and its activity was clearly visible in the sky,” the reporter said. Later on, the reporter said, “flames suddenly erupted from the direction of Fordo.”

    Simultaneously with the flames, a faint trail of smoke and a significant amount of dust rose in the area, Fars quoted the reporter. It offered no photos or video showing the attack

    Israeli officials lauded the strikes

    Israeli officials lauded the strikes in sweeping and dramatic language. Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, thanked Trump and said the strikes marked a “decisive moment between the axis of terror and evil and the axis of hope.”

    Israel’s defense minister congratulated Trump on what he described as a “historic decision.”

    US steps up efforts to evacuate citizens from Israel

    The U.S. is stepping up evacuation flights for American citizens from Israel to Europe and continuing to draw down its staff at diplomatic missions in Iraq as fears of Iranian retaliation again U.S. interests in the Middle East grow.

    Even before those airstrikes were announced by President Donald Trump on Saturday evening in Washington, the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem announced the start of evacuation flights for American civilians from Israel.

    Sixty-seven American citizens left Israel on two government flights bound for Athens, Greece on Saturday and four more evacuation flights to Athens were planned for Sunday, according to an internal State Department document seen by The Associated Press.

    In addition to the flights, a cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 American citizens, including several hundred Jewish youngsters who had been visiting Israel on an organized tour, arrived in Cyprus, according to the document.

    — Matthew Lee

    Israel closes airspace in wake of US attacks

    Israel’s Airport Authority announced it was closing the country’s airspace to both inbound and outbound flights in the wake of the U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.

    The agency said it was shutting down air traffic “due to recent developments” and did not say for how long.

    Iran says ‘no signs of contamination’ after US strikes nuclear facilities

    Iran said early Sunday there were “no signs of contamination” at its nuclear sites at Isfahan, Fordo and Natanz after U.S. airstrikes targeted the facilities.

    Iranian state media quoted the country’s National Nuclear Safety System Center, which published a statement saying its radiation detectors had recorded no radioactive release after the strikes.

    “There is no danger to the residents living around the aforementioned sites,” the statement added.

    Earlier Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites similarly have caused no recorded release of radioactive material into the environment around the facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.

    Strikes used ‘bunker buster’ bombs and cruise missiles

    The U.S. military used “bunker-buster” bombs in its attack on Iran’s Fordo nuclear fuel enrichment plant, which is built deep into a mountain, a U.S. official said. That official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.

    The 30,000-pound bunker-busting American bomb known as the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator uses its weight and sheer kinetic force to penetrate underground and then explode. Saturday’s strikes were the first time it has been used in combat.

    U.S. submarines also participated in the attacks in Iran, launching about 30 Tomahawk land attack missiles, according to another U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.

    It was not clear what those missiles were aimed at. Two Iranian nuclear sites besides Fordo were attacked, Isfahan and Natanz.

    — Lolita C. Baldor

    Trump called Netanyahu after strikes

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video that Trump called him after the strikes.

    “It was a very warm conversation, very emotional,” Netanyahu said.

    Speaking in Hebrew, he called Trump a friend of Israel like no one before him.

    “In my name, and on behalf of all citizens of Israel and on behalf of the entire Jewish world, I thank him from the bottom of my heart.”

    Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

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