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A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordot, Natanz,

and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive

enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and

a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

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 did it.

After all of the speculation, all of the will-he-won-he?

He addressed the American people last night saying that American bombers had struck three of Iran's

main nuclear sites. The U.S. joining the war with Israel against Iran and setting up the biggest

conflict, the biggest conflagration between the U.S. in Iran since the fall of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution of

1979. But is that it? Do the Americans go again? Does Iran retaliate? Have they really

obliterated those sites? And where does Britain stand on all this? Why are ministers finding it so difficult to answer the question,

do you support what America has done? Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And about three o'clock this morning, local time came the news that Donald Trump hadn't waited the two weeks that he had promised.

And maybe we'll dig into why the Americans decided to go sooner.

But they had bombed those three facilities in the towns, in Isfahan, and most importantly in Fordo,

which is where the nuclear enrichment plant is buried deep underground in the mountains.

And America used those weapons.

The GBU 57, the massive ordnance penetrator to hit those sites. And as we heard there in that clip from Donald

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