Trump says damage to Iran's nuclear sites is 'far below ground level'

Trump said the U.S. attacked three nuclear sites in Iran.

The United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Donald Trump announced.

B-2 bombers dropped a number of Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs -- known as "bunker busters" -- during the U.S. mission over Iran, a U.S. official confirmed.

A number of Tomahawk cruise missiles were also fired at targets inside Iran from a U.S. Navy submarine, the official confirmed.

Following the strikes, Trump addressed the nation, calling it a "spectacular military success."

Jun 22, 2025, 6:37 AM EDT

Trump 'deceived his own voters,' Iran foreign minister says

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told reporters in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday that President Donald Trump "deceived his own voters" by launching attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, suggesting the president was reneging on his election promise not to get involved in "forever wars."

Commuters drive past an anti-Israel billboard in Tehran, Iran, on June 22, 2025.
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Araghchi described the American strikes on the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan sites late Saturday as "outrageous" and laid blame for any fallout on the U.S.

"Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far reaching implications of its act of aggression," he said.

Araghchi appeared to close the door on fresh negotiations, saying the path door to diplomacy should always be open but "this is not the case right now."

"It was not Iran, but the U.S. who betrayed diplomacy," Araghchi said. "They betrayed negotiations."

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

Jun 22, 2025, 6:07 AM EDT

Leading Republicans briefed before Iran strikes, sources say

There was no formal "Gang of Eight" briefing for the top leaders of the House and the Senate before the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Saturday, sources told ABC News, but top Republican members were given details ahead of the action.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is pictured at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2025.
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Both House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune were briefed on the military action before the strikes were carried out, according to people familiar with those conversations.

Democratic leaders -- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- were notified of the strike but not given any details, per sources.

One of those sources believed the Democratic leaders were informed only after the military action was underway.

Schumer's spokesperson later told reporters the message came "shortly ahead" of President Donald Trump's announcement, describing it as "a perfunctory notification without any details."

-ABC News' Rachel Scott, Lauren Peller and Allison Pecorin

Jun 22, 2025, 4:42 AM EDT

Iranian opposition groups reiterate calls for regime change

Iranian dissident groups have responded to the U.S. strikes on Iran's key nuclear sites by reiterating their calls for the toppling of the Islamic Republic and its leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was deposed by the 1979 Iranian Revolution, said in a post to X that the American attacks "are the result of the regime's catastrophic pursuit of nuclear weapons at the expense of the Iranian people."

Rocket trails are seen in the sky above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya amid a fresh barrage of Iranian missile attacks on June 21, 2025.
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"As Khamenei considers how to respond from his underground bunker, I say to him: For the sake of the Iranian people, respond by stepping down, so the proud Iranian nation can leave the disastrous period of the Islamic Republic behind and start a new chapter of peace, prosperity and greatness," Pahlavi wrote.

Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran -- a coalition of dissident Iranian groups that grew out of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, or MEK, revolutionary group that fought against the shah and the Islamic Republic -- said in a statement sent to ABC News, "Now Khamenei must go."

"Khamenei is responsible for an unpatriotic project that, in addition to costing countless lives, has cost the Iranian people at least two trillion dollars -- and now, it has all gone up in smoke," she said.

"No to war -- yes to regime change, i.e., changing the religious dictatorship by the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance," Rajavi added. "Forward toward a free Iran and a democratic, non-nuclear republic with separation of religion and state and gender equality."

Jun 22, 2025, 4:24 AM EDT

Iran fired 20 to 30 missiles after US strikes, official says

An Israeli military official told ABC News that Iran fired between 20 and 30 ballistic missiles toward Israel on Sunday morning following the American strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites late on Saturday.

Israeli security forces and first responders gather at the site of an Iranian strike that hit a residential neighbourhood in the Ramat Aviv area in Tel Aviv on June 22, 2025.
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-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Dada Jovanovic

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