Trump brings the ‘Hammer’ down on Iran: 7 B2s, 36 hours, 14 penetrating bombs, 75 smart bombs and cruise missiles

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? President Donald Trump quickly declared America’s “Operation Midnight Hammer” a total, unqualified success.

“The U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan,” Trump said late Saturday night. “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.”

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