Of Athena Papakosta

The military operation under the code name “Midnight” was known by a tight group of people in the United States. In the secret secrecy, Washington targeted Iran’s three main nuclear facilities – Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan – and within 25 minutes had bombed them, completely surprising Tehran and the world.

It had preceded a week (and something) intense and increasingly escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, with the US president … practicing in the oracles, conducting a nerve war on whether or not the United States is involved, or not.

The diplomacy that allowed himself to pop up last Thursday proved to be a bluff and now experts and not, are talking about a risk of Trump with the consequences of being at least visible, as the United States of America has now entered the war.

Seven Stealth B-2 Spirit bombers. 14 Bunker-Buster bombs (GBU-57 “Massive Ordnance Penetrator”). Dozens of Tomahawk rockets and more than 125 military aircraft have found a target and Tehran is now warning with “eternal consequences”.

The US president in his television profession described the strikes of the US Armed Forces as a “spectacular military operation”, stressing that all three Iranian nuclear facilities have “completely and completely eliminated”. But the head of the Joint US Armed Forces Staff, General Dan Caine, during a joint press conference with US Defense Minister Pitt Hegsez, took a distance, in a way, by Trump’s allegations of total disaster.

According to satellite images from Maxartechnologies, in the underground nuclear “installation -power”, uranium enrichment in Fordo now shows six craters and are not excluded that they are the point of the “Bunker – Buster” bombs – which are designed to cross multiple levels of reinforced concrete.

The extent of the damage below the surface of the Earth cannot yet be appreciated, said General Kane – unlike Hegschez, who repeated what the US president had said on Sunday morning. At the same time, the Iranian authorities rushed to deny that Tehran’s nuclear program has been destroyed.

The seven Stealth B -2 Spirit bombers took off from Missouri and traveling a 7,000 -mile distance – after multiple air supplies – “quietly” to the Middle East. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and reached Iran’s airspace to hit Fordo and Natanz. At the same time, as a… bait extra B-2 bombers were directed over the Pacific.

The first of the B-2s dropped the first two “Bunker Buster” at two in the morning, local time, while a US Navy submarine fired dozens of Tomahawk rockets that hit Isfahan. In total, more than 75 advanced weapons were used, including a total of 14 piercing bombs weighing 30,000 pounds, while 125 warplanes were used in the “Midnight Hammer” operation.

Trump was watching the evolution of US bombings from the White House business room. The US Vice President Jay Di Vance, Defense Minister Pete Hegsheth, the head of the Joint Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Dan Caine were present. The Director of the National Intelligence Service and the head of US diplomacy, Mark Rubio.

“President Trump and I often say” peace through power “. First comes in power and then peace, “said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, celebrating and thanking the United States president who warned Iran, stressing that he now has two options in front of him: either the tragedy or the tragedy.

Now everyone’s gaze is turning to the Islamic Republic and the type of retaliation he chooses with Tehran to say that all the choices are on the table, the Iranian parliament – according to Iranian media – to have already agreed on the closure of the Straits of Ormouz and the Court of Appeal, It is not yet over and that Tehran still holds stock -enriched uranium but also that the US bases used for US attacks are legitimate targets for Tehran.