Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran, but has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country, the BBC’s US partner CBS reports.
The US president held off from initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme, a senior intelligence source told CBS. Trump is reportedly considering a US strike on Fordo, an underground uranium enrichment facility in Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender, as the US president said his patience had run out.
#BREAKING: The IDF confirms Israeli fighter jets struck the Arak nuclear reactor complex in Iran overnight, targeting key plutonium infrastructure.
A second nuclear weapons development site near Natanz was also hit.
Both strikes were part of a sweeping operation involving 40… pic.twitter.com/ks7Z8d4acM
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) June 19, 2025
IRAN WAR: I have a feeling there are a LOT of people in the Pentagon just itching for a real world test of the bunker buster bomb. pic.twitter.com/8PtM95rGcd
— @amuse (@amuse) June 19, 2025
An Islamic Republic With Its Back Against the Wall
Beneath Israel’s bombs lies an unpopular and repressive Iranian regime that has spent billions of dollars on a nuclear program and on projecting the Islamic Revolution through armed regional proxies, while presiding over a domestic economic disaster and stifling paralysis.
An 86-year-old autocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rules this restive nation, as he has for 36 years, in his role as guardian of the revolution, a conservative calling at which he has proved adept. The supreme leader is no gambler. But his system, remote from a youthful and aspirational society, looks sclerotic to many, and he is now up against the wall.
Must be getting tense in Tehran …
BOOMMMMM
It’s over.Official regime figures have filed for asylum… in Canada. pic.twitter.com/5WybERsBt7
— daniel ✌️ (@LionsOfZion_ORG) June 18, 2025
Just like that, the Ex-DOGE, Ex-Fee Palestine, and Ex-ICE protesters are now protesting in favor of IRAN.
It must be exhausting trying to keep up with the latest thing.
pic.twitter.com/XdazkLFgYy— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) June 19, 2025
