The United States is in war with the Iranian nuclear program

Vice President JD Vance On Sunday, he insisted that the United States is not in war IranBut with the “Iranian nuclear program”, hours after the United States ” Late strikes at night On three nuclear sites in the country.

Vans’s comments come shortly after the Minister of Defense Higseth House The aforementioned “Iranian nuclear ambitions” said, after the Trump administration strikes in the facilities FordNathanz and Safhahan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi said on Sunday that Iran said Keep all options To defend itself after the American attacks, which raises fears of a major escalation throughout the region.

When asked before NBC News’ Kristen Welker “How will the United States respond to revenge by Iran,”

White House officials, including Trump, described the success of the mission late at night in destroying nuclear installations, but the extent of damage was not known on Sunday.

Pence did not mention whether the US three nuclear sites have had any remaining capacity.

“I will not deal with a sensitive intelligence about what we saw on the ground there in Iran, but we saw a lot, and I feel very confident that we have postponed their development of a nuclear weapon, and this was the goal of this attack,” Vans said.

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