US president says strikes led to ‘monumental damage’ and questioned if the regime could ‘make Iran great again’
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Donald Trump raised the prospect of regime change in Iran and defended his claim that its nuclear enrichment sites had been “totally obliterated” by US strikes over the weekend, insisting it was an “accurate term” even as a US damage assessment was still underway.
The US president said in a social media post that the sites – which were struck by GBU-57 “bunker buster” bombs and Tomahawk cruise missiles on Saturday night – sustained “monumental damage”, adding: “The biggest damage took place far below ground level. Bullseye!!!”
