{"id":4369,"date":"2025-06-22T04:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4369\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T04:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:54:10","slug":"trumps-iran-attack-catches-world-off-guard-after-fakeouts-with-b-2-flights-and-two-weeks-timeframe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4369\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Iran attack catches world off-guard after fakeouts with B-2 flights and ‘two weeks’ timeframe"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump caught the world off-guard Saturday by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites<\/a> \u2014 after his apparently strategic deception indicating that such strikes weren\u2019t imminent and trickery with the deployment of US Air Force B-2 bombers.<\/p>\n

Trump said Thursday he would make a decision in the \u201cnext two weeks\u201d<\/a> to allow more time for negotiations, giving the sense of reprieve amid fevered speculation he might join Israel\u2019s airstrikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the fact that there\u2019s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,\u201d Trump said in a statement just two days before the unprecedented US attack.<\/p>\n

President Trump announced that the US military has bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

A satellite image of Iran\u2019s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Merrill Sherman \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n

The timing was stunning in part because six B-2 stealth bombers <\/a>capable of carrying 30,000-pound \u201cbunker buster\u201d bombs had been tracked leaving Missouri early Saturday \u2014 and were likely incapable of reaching Iran until late Sunday, according to published flight times.<\/p>\n

The B-2 is believed to be the main type of plane capable of delivering 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs capable of obliterating underground facilities.<\/p>\n

Israel lacked the planes needed to drop the heavy bombs and since last Thursday had been dropping less-powerful 2,000-pound bombs.<\/p>\n

Trump he would make a decision on bombing Iran in the \u201cnext two weeks\u201d earlier this week. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

A satellite image of the Isfahan nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran \u2014 one of the three struck by the US bombings. Satellite image \u00a92025 Maxar Technologies\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Read the latest on the US bombing of Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities:<\/p>\n

Trump announced the attack shortly after returning to the White House from his golf resort in Bedminster, NJ \u2014 a trip in which he suspiciously took no reporter questions.<\/p>\n

The New York Post\u2019s front page for Sunday, June 22, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cA full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump caught the world off-guard Saturday by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites \u2014 after his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,83,99,71,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-4369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114725235116739065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}