President Donald Trump revealed on Monday that he had initially wanted to delay a military strike on Iran due to details of the operation appearing in U.S. media reports—but eventually decided to move ahead with the attack as originally planned.
Trump explained that part of the strategy to mislead Iran involved deploying American bombers to Guam and other areas to mask the true intentions of the U.S. military.
“I told General Caine that the details were published on CNN, and he told me, ‘Sir, we’ll be fine. We’ll bomb them and we’ll be fine,'” the American president said.
Trump described a shift in his decision-making process just prior to the operation. “The day before, I postponed the attack, saying we’ll do it sometime in the next few weeks. Then I had a meeting and said, ‘I have an idea, let’s leave it at that exact time and not postpone it.’ Then we took off,” he said.
On June 22, the United States executed Operation Midnight Hammer, a coordinated aerial offensive targeting Iranian nuclear infrastructure. The assault included seven B2 stealth bombers releasing a total of 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on Iran’s Fordow and Natanz nuclear sites. Additionally, an American submarine launched 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at the facilities in Natanz and Isfahan.
{Matzav.com}
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