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US president announces ‘very successful’ attacks carried out at Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan

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Iran has said a “dangerous war” with the US has begun after president Donald Trump announced that US warplanes had “obliterated” three nuclear facility sites in Iran.

At around 8pm ET on Saturday, Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social that “very successful” strikes had been carried out on the nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.