{"id":1519,"date":"2025-06-22T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2025-06-22T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:51:32","slug":"us-officials-claim-strikes-on-iranian-nuke-sites-caused-severe-damage-as-controversial-move-roils-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/22\/us-officials-claim-strikes-on-iranian-nuke-sites-caused-severe-damage-as-controversial-move-roils-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s parliament acts after US officials claim strikes on Iranian nuke sites caused \u2018severe damage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actions have consequencs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jun\/22\/israel-iran-war-live-trump-says-us-has-attacked-nuclear-sites-in-iran-including-fordow\">Iran&#8217;s parliament has voted to shut Hormuz strait.<\/a> That&#8217;s going to have, well, a negative influence on oil prices. More inflation, anyone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/06\/22\/world\/israel-iran-us-trump\">Mission accomplished?<\/a> It&#8217;s still unclear as to what nuclear capabilities Iran has.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/06\/22\/israel-iran-live-updates-us-trump\/\">U.N. Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said<\/a> the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks \u201ca perilous turn in a region that is already reeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/22\/us\/politics\/iran-weapons-us-bases.html\">One key threat<\/a> the Pentagon is focused on: Iran\u2019s short-range weapons.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On the morning after the bombings\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ap-ml-mideast-wars-us-iran-israel_n_6857e3e5e4b05236097fb44f?k68\">Iran has confirmed<\/a> that the United States attacked three sites believed to be key sites for their nation;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s top leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/06\/22\/world\/israel-iran-us-trump\">echoed President Trump\u2019s claims of success<\/a> \u2013 but said it was too soon to say whether Iran still retains some nuclear capability.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/hegseth-caine-iran_n_6857fc44e4b05236097fb599\">Gen. Dan Caine is arguably a bit skeptical<\/a> of the outcome of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-iran-threat-war_n_68577514e4b0f4c2e022d201\">Trump&#8217;s disjointed, weird late-night speech after the attack<\/a> claimed &#8216;peace&#8217; with Iran will come \u2013 while threatening yet more war.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians around the world are expressing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/22\/global-alarm-at-us-strikes-on-iran-amid-fears-conflict-could-spiral-out-of-control\">\u2018grave concern\u2019<\/a> and urge all parties to de-escalate and return to talks on Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>Former Russian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/senior-russian-official-reveals-countries-are-ready-to-supply-iran-with-nuclear-warheads\/\">Dmitry Medvedev claimed that a number of countries are now prepared<\/a> to arm Iran with their nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump was expecting unity from Republicans, he was sadly mistaken: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/trump-massie-unconstitutional-iran-strike\/\">U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening<\/a> that his party&#8217;s leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greene-reacts-to-trump-bombing-iran-pray-we-are-not-attacked-by-terrorists-at-home\/\">Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was not happy about the attacks at all<\/a>, reacting to President Donald Trump&#8217;s announcement by urging Americans to pray that terrorists do not attack \u201cour homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian&#8217;s Andrew Roth says that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/22\/trump-falls-into-the-netanyahu-trap-israel-iran-us\">Israeli strongman Benjamin Netanyahu pretty much dog-walked the hapless, aging Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jefftiedrich.com\/p\/big-boy-preznit-drops-bombs-what\">Jeff Tiedrich&#8217;s <span style=\"color:red;\">NSFW<\/span> take<\/a> will provide you with some needed foul-mouthed sanity. <\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s torrent of headlines can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/text_n_6856e6e2e4b0158ad50850ae\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>STILL DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crisis continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}