Trump Regime unconstitutionally bombs three Iranian nuclear plants
Trump's move is sure to potentially move us closer to a World War III, a scenario a majority of Americans don't want.
This evening, at just before 8PM EDT/7PM CDT, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the US has bombed three Iranian nuclear power sites without justification, joining Israel’s military campaign against Iran. The three nuclear plants the US bombed were Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. This comes from the man that has proclaimed that he wants out of wars.
This insane and unconstitutional move to bomb Iran does NOT have the support of the American people, even among Republicans. However, public opinion on this issue is likely to shift as the bombings go on.
Like clockwork, Israel’s bloodthirsty and genocidal PM Benjamin Netanyahu gave praise to Trump’s bombings of the 3 Iranian nuclear plants.
Could this be a ploy to raise Trump’s sagging approval ratings?
As for Iran, they are expected to retaliate over this, and it could spiral into a regional war or even possibly World War III, with the assistance of the US and Israel.
Sharon Zhang at Truthout (06.21.2025):
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S. military has struck three sites in Iran, in an unprovoked act of aggression. The strikes come after Israel launched its own unprovoked attack on Iran on June 13, leading to an all-out war between the two countries. The U.S. strikes mark a major escalation and threaten to bring further instability to the region.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the U.S. has bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran, at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
The Iranian government’s Atomic Energy Organization confirmed the strikes, saying that they “were attacked in a violent act against international laws, including the Non-Proliferation Treaty, by the enemies of Islamic Iran.” Regional Iranian officials also confirmed the strikes, as Iranian news outlets have reported.
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The strikes mark the U.S.’s official direct entry into the war, though the U.S. has provided Israel with support in its bombings on Iran and has also helped provide defense for Israel. The attacks come after politicians and war mongers in the U.S. have called for war with Iran for decades.
President Donald Trump declared the U.S. bombing of Iran’s three major nuclear facilities to have been “a spectacular military success” during a Saturday night address to the nation, and left the door open to engaging in more strikes.
“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump said, and warned that the U.S. could still attack other, less significant targets in Iran if its leaders don’t stand down.
“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” he said. “If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.”
Standing in the White House Cross Hall to deliver a speech that lasted less than four minutes, Trump stopped short of declaring the U.S. to be at war with Iran, but his words made clear that he was willing to enter a deeper, wider conflict.
In fact, the president seemed intent on trying to further intimidate Iran, a dramatic shift from just a few weeks ago, when Trump sounded confident that he was close to a diplomatic agreement with Tehran to further constrain its nuclear program. Trump asserted Saturday that there are “many targets left” in Iran for U.S. forces to attack and vowed to go after them in short order if Iran didn’t relent.
Brian Tyler Cohen (06.21.2025):
The United States, it seems, is now at war. Donald Trump took to Truth Social, writing:
In other words, the United States is now engrossed in a brand new war in the Middle East at the hands of the self-proclaimed anti-war president. Trump has spent the last five months vowing that the Ukraine-Russia war would never have happened if he was president, vowing that the Israel-Gaza war would never have happened if he was president. And yet the reality is that not only has he not avoided war, but he’s plunged us into the middle of a new one. Granted, he did suggest that “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE” to give himself some plausible deniability, but if you believe that Iran will just calmly accept his declaration of “peace” and we’ll all live in harmony, then I’ve got a Trump-branded steak to sell you.
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It’s also worth noting that this military action against Iran was illegal, in that Trump didn’t seek congressional approval. He doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally declare war; Congress does. The merits of Iran’s nuclear capabilities notwithstanding, it is not the sole discretion of one man to launch a military attack on a foreign country; it’s up to Congress.
AOC is right. Trump should be impeached for this.
Matthew Sheffield, on X, helpfully debunks the lie that Donald Trump is “anti-war” (06.21.2025):
Full thread on X: https://x.com/mattsheffield/status/1936602558229106800
The idea that Trump or MAGA is in any sense “anti-war” is something between an absurdity and a misunderstanding. Kate and I had a good discussion of it in this week’s podcast. At one level it’s a simple fraud. Trump claimed he’d always been against the Iraq War at a time when the U.S. had been bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan for years. It was a helpful attack line and it was completely false. Trump wasn’t in politics in 2002 or 2003 and to the extent he said anything, like a lot of people, he was for it when it was popular and against it when it wasn’t.
During his presidency he signed off on the assassination/targeted attack that killed Qasem Soleimani; he heavily involved the U.S. in the Saudi war in Yemen; he maintained or expanded the U.S. fight against ISIS in Iraq/Syria. Those are at least a continuity with the Obama years and in key respects an expansion of it. The one arguable exception is the deal Trump made with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan — a bad deal which Joe Biden was saddled with and followed through on and was endlessly criticized for, by Trump more than anyone else. Afghanistan captures Trump perfectly — his one notionally “anti-war” position was continuity by definition. And he turned against it as soon as he was unpopular. Trump has gotten “anti-war” mileage out of his opposition to Ukraine aid. But that’s pro-Russia rather than anti-war.
So the entirety of Trump’s anti-war-ness is a fiction and one he’s been remarkably adept at selling to a huge swath of the political and journalistic community. He came into politics at a moment of profound public fatigue with unending military commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq and simply passed himself off as against what everyone was sick of. That’s just a subset of most of the rest of Trump’s politics: he’s the diehard against whatever is unpopular and vice versa, rinse and repeat ad finitum, or until the public mood changes.
But there’s not quite nothing to Trump’s claims of being “anti-war.” What he’s against is military commitments. As I mentioned on the pod with Kate yesterday, Trump can hardly be “anti-war” since he’s not even anti-war within the United States. He’s already done his first military deployment — to Los Angeles. War is fundamentally about violence and aggression. That violence and aggression can be tethered to a necessary or righteous goal. But the thing itself is violence and aggression. And violence and aggression are the essence of MAGA politics.
Marshall is right. Trump has NEVER been “anti-war.” He has long had a record for cheerleading for wars.
Troye correctly notes that the Trump Regime’s policies helped fueled the destabilization of the Middle East, such as pulling out of the Iranian nuclear deal.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) calls the bombings “illegal and unjustified”, via Bluesky (06.21.2025):
Duckworth is correct here.
There is ZERO constitutional justification for what Donald Trump did tonight, as his regime bombed three Iranian nuclear plants without Congressional approval.
This decision is all about appeasing Israel and the neocons at all costs, at the expense of common sense and prudence. And as Sen. Warren rightly said, this was a “horrific war of choice.”