President Donald Trump has rallied behind Israel after news broke that it had bombed several nuclear sites across Iran, including its capital of Tehran.

The airstrikes came early this morning (June 13), with Israel revealing that it had used around 200 aircraft to send swarms of missiles towards roughly 100 targets – all understood to have been nuclear and missile sites.

In response, Iran fired over 100 drones at Israel – with both Iraq and Jordan confirming that they had flown over their airspace – as Israeli Defence Forces mentioned that they had been intercepting them. It remains uncertain whether any drones managed to pass through the country’s Iron Dome.

Trump has since confirmed that the US had no involvement in the strikes, although he did tell CNN that he believed the strikes were a ‘very successful attack’, adding that the US ‘supports Israel’.

The attacks come as the 78-year-old Republican has been pushing for Iran to sign a nuclear deal – something that we’ve heard a lot of talk about as of late, but as for what that involves… we’ve kind of been left in the lurch.

Damage to buildings in Nobonyad Square, Tehran, following Israeli airstrikes. Iran’s three top military generals were killed in the attacks that also targeted nuclear and military facilities (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

What is the Iran-nuclear deal

Simply put, if Iran agreed to a nuclear deal, it would mean the country would have to cease and desist with its nuclear development program – with world leaders worried that the Middle Eastern nation intends to create nuclear artillery for warfare.

The deal that Trump’s hoping for would also mean the ballistic missile program would be halted, as well as Iran’s involvement in regional conflicts.

In return for Iran axing it, the US and other leading nations would lift the sanctions placed on Iran – which has been an economic disaster for its natives, with Iran currently in a deep recession and has been since the sanctions were put in place.

Detailed look at the nuclear talks between Iran and the US (Murat Usubali/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Who is involved in the Iran-nuclear deal

The nuclear deal involves Iran and a group of world powers known as the P5+1 – which includes the US, UK, Germany, France, China and Russia, who’ve all been in negotiation with Iran in regard to its nuclear program since 2006.

They’ve struck an agreement in the past known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but it was disintegrated after Trump raised his concerns during his first term – we’ll get into that later.

While the deal involves the five members of the UN Security Council – UK, France, China, Russia and the US, as well as Germany. The European Union is also an interested party – so to are Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Israel claims the deal is too lenient and so chose not to pursue it, while the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has met with Iranian officials in an attempt to talk them round – and has even offered to mediate any talks between the US and Iran.

The nine countries which are known to have nuclear weapons, and the debate over who should be allowed a nuclear artillery (Muhammed Ali Yigit/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Trump has warned Iran

“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done,” the Republican wrote on Truth Social today.

“I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it.”

Trump’s post continued: “Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!

“There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end.

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!”

Before later adding: “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal.’ They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!”

President Donald Trump, pictured on Tuesday in front of the US military at Fort Bragg, has warned Iran that it should sign a nuclear deal (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

How close is Iran to a nuclear weapon?

The Institute for Science and International Security, a non-profit watchdog, believes the breakout time before Iran has the facilities to produce a nuclear weapon is at zero percent, and estimates that it has enough highly enriched uranium that it could create more than a dozen nuclear bombs in less than two months – if the uranium was enriched to 90 percent.

Its monitoring report issued on Monday (June 9) stated that one of Iran’s factories could produce weapons-grade uranium (WGU) in just days.

Chillingly, it read: “Iran could produce its first quantity of 25 kg of WGU in Fordow in as little as two to three days.

“Breaking out in both Fordow and the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP), the two facilities together could produce enough WGU for 11 nuclear weapons in the first month, enough for 15 nuclear weapons by the end of the second month, 19 by the end of the third month, 21 by the end of the fourth month, and 22 by the end of the fifth month.”

Infographic of where Iran’s nuclear sites are located (Ufuk Celal Guzel/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Why did the US leave the 2015 Iran nuclear deal?

Trump opted the US out of the first deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – which was struck in 2015, in May 2018 during his first term as president, labelling it ‘defective at its core’.

The Trump administration then sought to reinstate the sanctions on Iran, a move which the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said ‘disgraced’ US prestige and liberal democracy, according to the BBC.

During his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump cited that the agreement failed to address Iran’s development of its ballistic missile programme, as well as the country’s destabilising influence in the region.

Now, upon his return to the White House, Trump issued a batch of sanctions on Iran, this time directed at their’ oil network’, as per Al Jazeera.

Between 2012 and 2016, the Iranian economy lost a total of $160 billion in revenue from its oil supply alone. After Trump reimposed sanctions in 2018, the Iranian rial, its local currency, dropped to a record low.

As mentioned earlier, Iran is currently in a deep recession and has been since the sanctions were put in place.

Trump opted the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action back in 2018 (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Why is Israel involved?

Israel’s attack in the early hours of this morning came as tensions escalated over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that the strikes were ‘a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival’.

Israel said it hit ‘dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of Iran’, killing Iran’s top military and nuclear scientists (via the BBC).

However, it was just the latest of a series of hostilities that the two nations have exchanged in recent years.

In 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel obtained tens of thousands of pages of data showing Iran covered up its nuclear program before signing a deal with world powers in 2015.

Two years later, a top Iranian military nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated by a remote-controlled machine gun while traveling in a car outside Tehran – with a top Iranian security official accusing Israel of killing the scientist, who founded Iran’s military nuclear programme in the 2000s.

Their relationship has since worsened due to Israel’s war with Hamas – and the humanitarian crisis that is ongoing in the Gaza Strip.

Donald Trump has sparked outrage across the country with a terrifying statement when he was asked about the potential possibility of US strikes on Iran.

Israel has been conducting strikes in Tehran since June 13, which so far has gone on without any involvement from the US.

In retaliation, Iran has fired back its own missiles, with some even getting through the country’s Iron Dome defenses in Tel Aviv.

A hospital in Beersheba in southern Israel was attacked by Iran overnight, though Iranian state media report the missile strike targeted a military site next to the hospital rather than the actual medical site itself.

While the hospital has been damaged, Israeli officials say no one was hurt.

Tensions don’t seem to be deescalating anytime soon, so President Trump was asked by a reporter on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday (June 18) if the US could get involved and fire missiles on Iran.

Donald Trump has been speaking on the conflict (Suzanne Plunkett-Pool/Getty Images)

And it’s fair to say the Republican president provided a rather cryptic answer, which has outraged many on the internet.

“I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I’m gonna do,” Trump said, as per Garrett Haake.

“What a reckless statement,” one person responded on Twitter, while a second added: “He doesn’t know what he’s doing this is our president.”

Meanwhile, a third remarked: “Nobody wants to hear a president say that either.”

Trump was also asked if his patience with Iran has run out, to which the president responded: “It’s already run out. That’s why we’re doing what we’re doing.”

Tensions are rising in the US (KHOSHIRAN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has certainly not shied away from talking about Iran, stating the country must come to make a new nuclear deal now or face more strikes and further deaths.

Taking to Truth Social recently, the president wrote: “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’ Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA.”

In a follow up post, he added: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Donald Trump has issued another statement to Iran amid the ongoing conflict with Israel, which saw both parties bomb each other for days.

Tensions between Israel and Iran have reached new heights, with both exchanging missile attacks in the last week.

Israel’s surprise bombing of Iran’s nuclear and military facilities set things into motion, with Iran releasing retaliatory strikes on Tel Aviv just hours later.

After Iran returned fire on Israel, Trump took to Truth Social on Monday (June 16) to comment that Iran needed to sign a new nuclear agreement deal, or else.

The president has been vocal in his want for a nuclear deal with the group of world powers known as the P5+1 – which includes the US, UK, Germany, France, China, and Russia, who’ve been in negotiation with Iran regarding its nuclear program since 2006.

Donald Trump has issued a statement over the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In his latest post on the matter, Trump warned Iran: “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.

“I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”

This has all come around at the time of this year’s G7 meeting, held in Canada, where Trump left the meeting a day early to return to DC.

At the time, French President Emmanuel Macron said that he had left to help foster a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. However, Trump turned to social media to dispute this.

In the wake of this, Iran attacked Israel again in the early hours of Monday (June 16), and damaged the US embassy in the country.

An Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025 in Tehran, Iran (Stringer/Getty Images)

The US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, confirmed the embassy had suffered ‘minor damage’, stating: “Some minor damage from concussions of Iranian missile hits near Embassy Branch… but no injuries to US personnel.”

Soon after, it was reported that the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is heading towards the Middle East as Trump warned of further destruction if no resolution is found.

Explaining that the US was not explicitly involved in Israel’s initial attack, Trump said they would not be kind on retaliation.

But in a major update today (June 17), Trump again expressed his thoughts on the situation between Iran and Israel, stating that he has not reached out to the former and had they chosen to take him up on his first offer, there would not be as many people dead.

He wrote: “I have not reached out to Iran for ‘Peace Talks’ in any way, shape, or form.

“This is just more HIGHLY FABRICATED, FAKE NEWS! If they want to talk, they know how to reach me. They should have taken the deal that was on the table – Would have saved a lot of lives!!!”

He also shared beforehand, that Iran having nuclear capabilities was at odds of his ‘America First’ plan, writing: “AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

Hundreds have been reported dead as the Iran-Israel conflict continues.

The US has carried out air strikes on three advanced nuclear sites in Iran, as Iranian officials condemn the attack and warn President Donald Trump his actions will have ‘everlasting consequences’.

At 7.50pm (Eastern Time) yesterday evening (June 21), the 79-year-old took to Truth Social to announce that America had completed a ‘very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan’ – which would have been 3.20am today (local time).

In his address to the nation, the Republican explained how the US bombed those three nuclear sites, describing them as part of Iran’s ‘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,” the POTUS said.

“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace – if they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.”

However, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, there has been ‘no increase in off-site radiation levels’ at the sites where the US launched its attacks – suggesting that the strikes didn’t do as much damage as Trump had hoped.

“IAEA will provide further assessments on situation in Iran as more information becomes available,” it said in a statement.

Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, took to Twitter following the attack to condemn the US’ actions while issuing a threat that America will face consequences over the decision to bomb its nuclear sites.

Smoke and flames can be seen at an alleged nuclear site in the mountains of Shiraz, Iran (HIROON/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

“The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences. Each and every member of the UN must be alarmed over this extremely dangerous, lawless and criminal behavior,” he wrote in part.

It comes as three US stealth bombers were spotted flying out from military bases in the US in the past couple of days, heading towards Diego Garcia, a small island in the Indian Ocean that is used as a military base by the UK and US.

Iran and weapons-grade uranium

Iran has been accused of attempting to develop a nuclear warhead, mining large quantities of uranium before enriching it to 60 percent – with Iran having no purpose to enrich the material to such a high percentage.

For those unaware, natural uranium contains a percentage of roughly 0.7 percent of the isotope uranium-235, which on its own isn’t usable as fuel for nuclear reactors – and needs to be enriched to 3.5 percent by removing the isotope uranium-238.

However, as previously mentioned, Iran has been producing and storing enriched uranium at 60 percent on mass – which would mean it’s done most of the work needed to enrich it to weapon-grade uranium (WGU), which is typically deemed at 90 percent.