
The U.S. military has hit three sites in Iran and inserted itself into Israel’s effort to decapitating Iran’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe. U.S. and Israeli officials have said that American stealth bombers and a 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb they alone can carry offered the best chance of destroying heavily fortified sites connected to the Iranian nuclear program buried deep underground. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the U.S. strikes overnight have blown up any possibility of diplomacy with the Americans or Europeans.