The United States has entered a new war in the Middle East, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, who had previously sworn only by peace, trade and putting American interests first. On Saturday, June 21, Washington met Israel's expectations and carried out a large-scale air force operation against Iran, aimed at crippling its nuclear program permanently.

After pretending to hesitate for a week, Trump took a historic risk that his predecessors, from George W. Bush to Joe Biden, had all refused to accept. He green-lighted the deployment of B-2 bombers in the region to target three sites: Natanz, a uranium enrichment facility that had already been damaged by Israeli airstrikes; Isfahan, where significant stocks of fissile material were reportedly stored; and Fordo, the most deeply buried facility, dug into the foot of a mountain.

In a message posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, shortly before 8 pm in Washington, Trump announced the operation as a "very successful attack," even though the exact assessment of the strikes' impacts had not yet been completed. "All the planes are now out of Iranian airspace," said the president, specifying that a "full payload of BOMBS" had been dropped on the most sensitive target, Fordo.

At 9 pm, on the conservative channel Fox News, host Sean Hannity, an ardent supporter of the operation and one of the White House's main propagandists, announced that he had just spoken to Trump. The president had confirmed to him that six GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs, each weighing over 13.5 metric tons, had been dropped on Fordo. Iran's nuclear ambitions "are officially dead," declared Hannity, ecstatic.

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