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Trump earns bipartisan praise for decisive action against Iran’s nuclear program

Exuberant Republicans, and at least one prominent Democrat, lauded President Donald Trump’s leadership on Saturday after the U.S. completed an attack on three Iranian nuclear sites.  ‘Good. This was the right call. The regime deserves it. Well done, President @realDonaldTrump,’ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., wrote on X.  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., also said Trump made the right call.  ‘As I’ve long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS,’ he said on X. ‘Iran...

Trump addresses nation on ‘spectacular military success’ of US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities

President Donald Trump addressed the nation just after 10 p.m. Eastern Time following the U.S. military’s successful strikes on a trio of Iranian nuclear facilities.  ‘A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan,’ he said. ‘Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment...

‘Not constitutional’: Congress evokes new War Powers Resolution to reject Trump’s strikes on Iran

Co-sponsors of the War Powers Resolution, Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif, and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., were quick to criticize President Donald Trump for greenlighting attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night.  ‘This is not constitutional,’ Massie said, responding to Trump’s Truth Social post announcing the strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan in Iran.  The bipartisan War Powers Resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives this week as strikes between Israel and Iran raged...

Misdirection and ‘deception’ likely key in Trump admin’s surprise Iran strike

Potential misdirection likely served a key role in the Trump administration’s successful strikes on a trio of Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday evening, which were abruptly announced by President Donald Trump in a Truth Social post just days after he said his decision on Iran would unfold within the next two weeks.  ‘We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,’ Trump said on Truth...

Trump follows through: US hits Iran’s nuclear sites ahead of national address

The U.S. struck three Iranian nuclear sites following President Donald Trump’s order on Saturday, and he’s expected to address the nation at 10 p.m. Eastern. The strike is the result of over a decade of the president saying that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.  ‘IRAN MUST NOW AGREE TO END THIS WAR,’ Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday night. ‘We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran,...

Trump attacks Iran nuclear sites: Are our troops in danger from retaliatory strikes?

After President Donald Trump announced the U.S. had struck Iranian nuclear sites late Saturday, thoughts turned to whether American troops in the region are suddenly in increased danger. On Sunday, officials from the Iran-backed Iraqi militant group Kataib Hezbollah said terrorists will resume offensives against American service members if there is any intervention by Washington in the Israel-Iran conflict, according to Reuters. ‘We are closely monitoring the movements of the American enemy’s army in the...