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The United States vice-president, JD Vance and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said the United States was not looking to overthrow the government in Iran via a “change of diet” and is not at war with the country following its unprecedented sound surprise attack Night on three of Iranian nuclear sites.
Sunday’s comments followed Washington, DC joining Israel strikes On his bow, which was encountered by daily strikes of reprisals from Iran and is now in their 10th day.
Vance said on Sunday that the United States had managed to find Iran nuclear programAdding that US President Donald Trump is now hoping to continue a diplomatic solution.
Speaking on the NBC News Show meet the press with Kristen Welker, he maintained that his country was “not at war with Iran, we are at war with the Iranian nuclear program”.
“We do not want to extend this or develop it more than it has already been built. We want to end their nuclear program,” said Vance, adding: “We want to speak to the Iranians of a long -term regulation here.”
Meanwhile, Hegseth said that the American strike series against Iran has “devastated” its nuclear program because he said Washington did not seek the “diet change” in Tehran.
There was no independent confirmation of the impact of American strikes on the sites, or the nuclear efforts of Tehran, which, according to him, are on several occasions for civil ends.
The Pentagon chief urged Iranian leaders to find a ramp out of ramp after Trump announced strikes on an underground enrichment of underground uranium in Fordow, as well as nuclear installations in Isfahan and Natanz.
Hegseth told a Pentagon press briefing that the operation “had not targeted Iranian troops or the Iranian people”.
“I can only confirm that there are public and private messages delivered to the Iranians in several channels, which gives them all the opportunities to come to the table,” added Hegseth during the press conference with General Dan Caine, president of the American joint staff.
“This mission was not, and was not a matter of regime change,” he said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Earlier, the United States on his country exploded any possibility of diplomacy and strongly suggested that a response was in the making.
During a speech to a meeting of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) in Istanbul on Sunday, Araghchi said that the United States had crossed “a very large red line” by attacking Iran’s nuclear installations.
Trump’s intervention – despite his past promises to avoid another “war forever” – threatens to considerably expand the conflict after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran last week, Tehran occurring to retaliate if Washington joined.
The United States and Iran had been engaged in several nuclear talks negotiated by Oman before Israel launched a strike on Iran, unconditionally supported by the United States, earlier this month.
“The bombers have taken off” “
Standing next to Hegseth, Caine said that an evaluation of the destruction suffered in Iran’s nuclear installations would take time to confirm.
“I think the PDA (preliminary evaluation of damage) is still pending and it would be too early for me to comment what or what cannot be there yet,” he said. He confirmed that B-2 bombers were launched from the United States on Friday for an 6 pm flight to their targets for the “strike package”.
“Operation Midnight Hammer” included several maneuvers “Deception and Deey”. A high-speed removal fire was used to protect the B-2, and Caine said there was no indication “no shot was fired” by the Iranian defenses.
“Iran fighters are not stolen and it seems that Iranian missile systems have not seen us,” said Caine.
He refused to comment on specific movements taken to protect American troops based in the Middle East against potential Iranian reprisals.
“Our joint force remains ready to defend the United States – our troops and our interests in the region,” said Caine.
Alan Fisher of Al Jazeera, reported by Washington, said that Hegseth had given a very clear message in the name of the United States that it is not an open operation, although there has been a warning that even if it is intentionally limited, the abilities of the American army are not.
“What is clear is that it was a well coordinated operation,” said Fisher.
“But as we heard the president of the heads of joint staff, they must obviously obtain complete information on the site, and that will take some time,” said Fisher. “So they don’t know if it was a huge success. But what he does was sending a real message.”
In addition, the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, told CBS that there were no military operations provided against Iran for the moment.
“ No death ” in Iranian sites
Asset announcement That American forces struck three Iranian nuclear sites in a “very successful attack” on Sunday.
“We have finished our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran, in particular FordowNatanz and Isfahan, ”Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump’s decision to join the military campaign of Israel against Iran has increased an already intensive conflict and threatens a potential regional war.
The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, said that there were no deaths in American strikes on nuclear facilities, according to Iranian state television.
On Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that his country’s right to continue a civilian nuclear program “cannot be removed … by threats or a war”. Tehran denies in search of an atomic bomb.
Trump intensified his rhetoric against Iran since Israel struck Iran on June 13, repeating her insistence that she could never have nuclear weapons. He seemed to be uncertain if we had to move militarily, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have been one of the key votes to which he was attentive.
Addressing Al Jazeera, Scott Lucas, professor of American and international politics at the University College Dublin, said that the reason why Trump decided to strike Iran after seeing diplomacy until recently was “because Donald Trump had been played by the Israelis; some could say manipulated”.
