In June 2025, during a war between Israel and Iran, the United States carried out air strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities: the underground enrichment plant at Fordow, the enrichment site at Natanz and the nuclear technology centre at Isfahan. B-2 stealth bombers dropped 30,000-pound GBU-57 bunker-busting bombs, the only conventional weapon thought capable of reaching deeply buried targets, and submarine-launched cruise missiles also hit Isfahan. President Donald Trump announced the attack, which the US named Operation Midnight Hammer. Iran retaliated with a missile attack on a US base in Qatar, and a ceasefire between Israel and Iran followed within days. Assessments of how far the strikes set back Iran's nuclear programme differed.
Before and after
- 12 June 2025Air India Flight 171
- 13 June 2025Operation Rising Lion
- 13 June 2025Operation True Promise III
- from 13 June 2025 to 24 June 2025Twelve-Day War
- 22 June 20252025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
- 23 June 2025Iranian strikes on Al Udeid Air Base
- from 13 July 2025 to 20 July 2025Southern Syria clashes
- from 28 July 2025 to 30 July 2025July 2025 Conference on the Implementation of the Two-State Solution
- 29 July 20252025 Kamchatka earthquake
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