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President issues Tehran ultimatum — choose ‘peace’ or suffer ‘tragedy’ — after American warplanes 'obliterated' Iranian weapons facilities
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President Donald Trump on Saturday said the “mass precision strikes” carried out by American bombers on a trio of Iranian nuclear facilities had been successful and warned that more of the same could be on the table if Tehran does not return to negotiations.
Speaking from the Cross Hall in the White House and flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, the ex-Florida senator who serves as his national security adviser as well as Secretary of State, the president described the airstrikes as “a spectacular military success” and said the three facilities targeted by U.S. warplanes had been “completely and totally obliterated.”
