Operation Midnight Hammer (OMH) consisting in the deployment of B-2 Aircraft out of Whitman Air Force Base  was in many regards improvised. 

OMH was undertaken by US Central Command (USCENTCOM), based in Florida in close coordination with US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) in Omaha, Nebraska.

 

 

In this article, we first put forth detailed evidence which refutes President Trump‘s June 22, 2025 Address to the Nation. 

We then proceed to examine the broader political implications. This improvised so-called “Twelve Days War” against Iran was NOT authorized by the U.S. Congress. 

 

Trump’s War on Iran: June 22, 2025

During his 10 p.m. ET address to the nation, Trump said, “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”

“After U.S. B-2 bombers dropped six 30,000-pound GBU‑57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site on Saturday night, President Donald Trump reposted an assessment from Open Source Intel that said “Fordow is gone”

NBC TRUMP’S ADDRESSES NATIONAL ADDRESS

NBC Netanyahu Praises Trump Strikes on Iran

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Mr. President. Where is the Evidence? 

The above statement “Trump says Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities ‘completely and totally obliterated’ in US Strikes” is FALSE, MISTAKEN.

The following evidence was conveyed and confirmed within hours of President Trump’s Address to the Nation, largely from Iranian media and official sources:

“On June 22, according to the Iranian Tasnim News Agency, Menan Laehi, a representative of Qom Province in the Iranian Parliament, stated this morning (June 22) that contrary to claims made by U.S. President Trump, the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran has not been severely damaged;

The main damage is to the above-ground parts, which can be repaired.

He expressed confidence that “all items that could pose a threat to nearby residents” have long been cleared from the facility, and there are currently no reports of nuclear radiation.

He emphasized that Iran views this U.S. attack as a manifestation of direct U.S. involvement in the war, and it is now “Iran’s decision when and how to respond to the U.S.”

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The following reports quoting Iran Military News states the following:

🔹 If Fordow had been destroyed, we would have seen volcanic craters, electromagnetic disruptions, emergency flights, seismographs lighting up, and infrared flames under the mountain. Instead,… pic.twitter.com/85RQbkNPf6

— Iran Military News (@IRAN_IRGC0) June 22, 2025

A close-up satellite view from June 22 show holes and craters on a ridge at Iran’s Fordow underground nuclear complex near Qom after US strikes, alongside an image captured before the attack for comparison.pic.twitter.com/x7PNTQzzA3

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) June 22, 2025

 

Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth’s Controversial Press Conference

Press conferences are intent upon conveying information and evidence to journalists as well as answering questions. But that did not happen.

“The point of Hegseth’s press conference was to make weird boasts, condemn journalists and whine like a delicate snowflake about coverage from mean news organizations that don’t seem to care about his feelings, all while dodging good questions that he should’ve been able to answer.”

Below is the video of the Press Conference. Click image to access full screen.

 https://t.co/fgisI5UuOw via @msnbc

— Prof. Michel Chossudovsky (@crgeditor) June 27, 2025

Hegseth press conference

 

See also the following video report by MSNBC regarding Hegeth’s Press Conference:

 

Click here

See AP report here  link to video on Iran war, AP 

 

“Operation Midnight Hammer”: 14 Bunker Busters Bombs Against Iran’s Nuclear Sites

The official story is as follows:

“A bomber mission of seven B-2 Spirit Bombers, accompanied by more than 30 Tomahawk Attack Missiles fired from an Ohio-class guided-missile nuclear submarine struck three Iranian nuclear sites at Natanz, Isfahan and Fordo, Pentagon officials confirmed on Sunday.

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In the words of President Trump “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” (White House Address, June 22, 2025).

The evidence presented above refutes President Trump’s above statement: (June 21 Nation Address).

Specifically regarding Forow. The B-2 bunker bomb operation was an absolute failure. 

Trump’s threats directed against accredited Pentagon journalists at Hegeth’s Press Conference are to no avail.

And eventually he will be obliged to acknowledge the truth. 

The GBU-57 (Massive Ordnance Penetrator)

 “30,000 lbs, with 5,000–6,000 lbs of explosives”

It is designed to penetrate up to 200 feet into reinforced concrete or rock before detonation.”

The claim is that it can reach and destroy underground facilities such as nuclear enrichment sites.”

The initials “GBU” stand for “Guided Bomb Unit”

 

According to MIT Prof Ted Postoll: 

These claims are likely overstated or misunderstood, especially by political decision-makers, misinformed by defense contractors or military briefers.

The bomb must hit very close to or directly above a target, such as a tunnel or chamber, to do meaningful damage.

A blast cavity from the explosion is ~20–30 meters wide. If the actual tunnel is offset by more than that (30+ meters horizontally or vertically), it won’t be affected.”

“U.S. attack models assume Iranian bunkers are simple, vertical shafts, but: Real underground bunkers may use offset tunnels, angled passages, or be built into irregular terrain like hills, making direct hits extremely unlikely.

Example: Iran’s Fordow facility is buried under a hill, making perpendicular impact very difficult.”  (Prof Ted Postol)

President Trump “Screwed Up” in the Conduct of the OMH Attack

While the conduct of the attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities was outright failure, there is nonetheless a “positive element” in the failure of “Operation Midnight Hammer(OMH)”.

According to independent geopolitical and military analyst Drago Bosnic had the Operation been conducted successfully from a militarian standpoint, this would have resulted in a Chernobyl style disaster resulting in massive radioactive contamination:

“The uranium used as fuel in nuclear power plants is enriched at 3.67%, which is considered far below the 90% or higher used in nuclear weapons. It should be noted that the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters used precisely this sort of nuclear fuel, which still resulted in massive radioactive contamination.

On the other hand, the Fordow facility had uranium enriched at 60%, meaning that radioactive fallout would’ve been far worse than Chernobyl.

Given the fact that no radiation was detected in the aftermath of the US strike, the only logical conclusion is that the reactors weren’t destroyed.  (Drago Bosnic, Infobrics, emphasis added)

What this analysis implies is that failure of Trump’s military operation contributed to preventing an unspoken disaster.

The U.S. Congress has the Power to Declare War,  Not The President

 

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War is a criminal act.  Military actions deliberately directed against civilians are illegal according to the laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC). In the wake of 9/11, US-NATO have been routinely conducting humanitarian wars allegedly against terrorists which do not require US Congressional approval nor a formal motion by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)

The Trump Adminstration casually invokes Article II of the US Constitution which defines the responsibilities of the Commander in Chief.

No consultations with the UN Security Council were undertaken. Breach of the Geneva Conventions. Scanty justifications were put forth by Trump officials.

“The administration is relying on the president’s authority under Article II of the Constitution, two senior administration officials told CNN, which says he has power to direct US military forces in engagements necessary to advance American national interests abroad.

The White House counsel’s office and the Justice Department were both involved in the legal analysis for the strikes. The administration relied, in part, on memos about war powers written by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel under previous administrations of both parties.”

“The president is clearly well within his Article II powers here,” one former senior US official told CNN. “End of story.” (CNN,emphasis added)

See:

Video: “Political Theater”: Trump’s Attack against Iran

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic, June 24, 2025

 

Concluding Remarks

Trump’s “12 days war” is not only a criminal act, it is sheer propaganda. The US has been at war against Iran for more than half a century. Coup d’etat. Regime Change. Imposition of  the Islamic State. The evidence regarding the attack directed against Iran’s nuclear facilities refutes the statements of the Trump Adminstration.

The history of warfare against Iran started in the early 20th century under the helm of the British Empire and extended with regime change and ongoing U.S. plans to wage war on Iran.

Creation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 1909

There was a coup d’Etat in 1953 led by the CIA and MI6.

The Islamic State of Iran  was established in 1979.

Statements of Central Command headquarters 1997 (USCENTCOM)

The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States’ vital interest in the region – uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil.” (USCENTCOM, 1995, emphasis added)

“Theater Iran Near Term” (TIRANNT).

Code named by US military planners as TIRANNT,  “Theater Iran Near Term” has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a “Shock and Awe” Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages.

Revealed last April 2006 by William Arkin, a former US intelligence analyst, writing in the Washington Post, TIRANNT was first established in May 2003, following the invasion of Iraq:

War against Iran has been continuous.

From the outset, the objective of war against Iran was to take control over Iran’s vast petroleum and gas reserves.

References

 

Trump’s “Operation Midnight Hammer”. The Qatar-U.S. Relationship. Is America Sleeping with the Enemy?

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 24, 2025

 

Video: “Political Theater”: Trump’s Attack against Iran

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic, June 24, 2025

 

Video: Say No to Nuclear War against Iran. Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic, June 21, 2025

 

 

U.S. and Western Allies Support the Genocide. Israel’s Role in U.S.-NATO War Against Iran

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 21, 2025

 

America’s “Humanitarian Wars”: Iran: History of Anglo-American Colonialism (1909-2024)

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 20, 2025

 

Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Sites, Kills Top Military Officials. Iran Strikes Back, Big Air Attack…

By Josef Federman, Jon Gambrell, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 13, 2025

 

 

For brief details see Annex below

 

ANNEX

 

1951. The Mossadegh Project. The Nationalization of the the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). Act of Parliament leading to the formation of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).

Mohammad Mosaddegh, a member of the Majlis (Parliament) for the National Front became Prime Minister of Iran in 1951. This was a secular government.

Two years of parliamentary democracy (1951-53)

The 1953 CIA-MI6 Coup d’Etat against the democratically elected (secular) government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh.

The coup was led by Richard Helm and Frank Gardner Wisner. 

The CIA-MI6 Sponsored Coup led to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh who was first imprisoned and then put under house arrest until his death in 1967.

The unspoken objective of the Coup d’Etat was to appropriate Iran’s National Oil company on behalf of the Anglo-American oil companies.

1954: The Shah signs a 25 year Consortium Agreement of 1954 (Persian: قرارداد کنسرسیوم) with British and American Oil Companies. This was a de facto act of recolonization (sponsored by the CIA and British Intelligence).

“dividing the aforementioned 50% ownership to foreign companies as follows. 40% to be divided equally (8% each) among the five major American companies; British Petroleum to have a 40% share; Royal Dutch/Shell to have 14%; and Compagnie Française des Pétroles (CFP),to receive 6%.

The U.S. sponsored coup d’Etat led to the formation of a military government. General Fazlollah Zahedi was appointed prime minister by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

1977-79 Iran’s Mass Movement was to restore Democracy and unseat Shah Palhavi

16 January 1979 Shah Palhavi and his family goes into exile.

Two weeks later on 1 February 1979, The Ayatollah Khomeini who was exiled in France returns to Teheran.

This was a carefully planned intelligence operation.

The CIA’s objective was to destabilize the secular government and install an Islamic State.

“The documents clearly show that Khomeini was less heroic, and far craftier, behind the scenes,” Fattahi said. “He quietly courted the US government, making all kinds of promises about the future of core US interests in Iran.”

“The documents are significant because they show Khomeini’s legacy is complicated, as it involves the ayatollah courting two US presidents behind the scenes. They illustrate a pattern of behaviour – that Khomeini at critical moments during his long struggle for an Islamic republic, secretly engaged what he would call ‘the Great Satan’.”

Gary Sick, a member of the National Security Council staff during the period of the Iranian revolution, said “the documents are genuine” but to the best of his knowledge he never saw the CIA study about the 1963 contact, and had no knowledge of the alleged communication. (The Guardian)

 

1980-88. The US Engineered Iran-Iraq War.

The Iran-Contra Operation

U.S. wants to regain full control over Iran.

The Unspoken Objective: Destroy both Countries

a) US provides weapons to Iraq,

b) US launches a secret intelligence operation to sell weapons to Iran,

c) the proceeds of the secret sale of weapons to Iran were used to destabilize Nicaragua.

The objective was to channel the proceeds of the sale of weapons to The Contra, a terrorist mercenary army with the mandate to undermine and destabilize the democratically elected Sandinista government of Nicaragua (1980).

It was called the Iran-Contra operation, managed by Col. Oliver North, etc,

The objective was to destroy both Iran and Iraq.

With regard to Nicaragua, the objective was destabilize the duly elected Sandinista government (1980).

The operation was coordinated by Col. Oliver North.

The intelligence operation was supported out of Tegucigalpa by Ambassador John Negroponte, who was linked to US intelligence.

1995. Central Command Headquarters: 

The “War on Iran” has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon since the mid-1990s under US Central Command’s (USCENTCOM) “Strategy of Dual Containment’  directed against the Rogue States of Iraq and Iran” formulated during the Clinton administration. 

“First Iraq, then Iran”: The stockpiling and deployment of advanced weapons systems directed against Iran started in the immediate wake of the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq.

From the outset, these war plans were led by the US, in liaison with NATO and Israel. The objective of the war on Iran  was carefully outlined by US Central Command in liaison with US Strategic Command: 

“The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the President’s National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman’s National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United States Central Command’s theater strategy. The NSS directs implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens.

Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM’s theater strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States’ vital interest in the region – uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil.” (USCENTCOM, 1995, emphasis added)

“Theater Iran Near Term” (TIRANNT).

Code named by US military planners as TIRANNT,  “Theater Iran Near Term” has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a “Shock and Awe” Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages.

Revealed last April 2006 by William Arkin, a former US intelligence analyst, writing in the Washington Post, TIRANNT was first established in May 2003, following the invasion of Iraq:

“In early 2003, even as U.S. forces were on the brink of war with Iraq, the Army had already begun conducting an analysis for a full-scale war with Iran. The analysis, called TIRANNT, for “theater Iran near term,” was coupled with a mock scenario for a Marine Corps invasion and a simulation of the Iranian missile force. U.S. and British planners conducted a Caspian Sea war game around the same time. And Bush directed the U.S. Strategic Command to draw up a global strike war plan for an attack against Iranian weapons of mass destruction.

All of this will ultimately feed into a new war plan for “major combat operations” against Iran that military sources confirm now exists in draft form. 

… Under TIRANNT, Army and U.S. Central Command planners have been examining both near-term and out-year scenarios for war with Iran, including all aspects of a major combat operation, from mobilization and deployment of forces through postwar stability operations after regime change.” (William Arkin, Washington Post, 16 April 2006)

 

 

 

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