Iranian officials denounce the attack and warn President Donald Trump that his actions will have “everlasting consequences” after the United States launched airstrikes on three sophisticated nuclear sites in Iran.

The 79-year-old turned to Truth Social at 7:50 p.m. (Eastern Time) yesterday, June 21, to declare that the United States had carried out a “very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.” This would have been 3.20 a.m. (local time) today.

The Republican recounted how the US struck those three nuclear installations in his speech to the nation, calling them a part of Iran’s “horribly destructive enterprise.”

“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success,” the POTUS said.

“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace – if they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.”

But there has been “no increase in off-site radiation levels” at the locations where the US launched its assaults, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, indicating that the strikes didn’t cause as much damage as Trump had hoped.

“IAEA will provide further assessments on situation in Iran as more information becomes available,” it stated in a statement.

Following the attack, Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, condemned the US’ actions on Twitter and threatened to hold America accountable for its choice to bomb its nuclear sites.

“The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences. Each and every member of the UN must be alarmed over this extremely dangerous, lawless and criminal behavior,” he wrote in part.

It comes after three US stealth bombers were seen departing US military installations in the last several days, bound for Diego Garcia, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean that serves as a US and UK military installation.

Iran and weapons-grade uranium

Iran has allegedly been accused of trying to create a nuclear bomb by mining a lot of uranium and then enriching it to 60%, even though Iran has no intention of doing so.

The isotope uranium-235, which is present in natural uranium in amounts of about 0.7 percent, cannot be used as fuel for nuclear reactors on its own and must be enriched to 3.5 percent by eliminating the isotope uranium-238.

However, as was previously established, Iran has been manufacturing and storing enriched uranium at 60 percent on mass, meaning that it has completed the majority of the work required to enrich it to 90 percent weapon-grade uranium (WGU).

How close is Iran to a nuclear weapon?

It possesses enough highly enriched uranium, according to the non-profit watchdog Institute for Science and International Security, to produce about a dozen nuclear weapons in a month if the uranium were enriched to 90 percent.

According to a June 9 monitoring report, one of Iran’s factories could produce weapons-grade uranium (WGU) in a matter of days.

Chillingly, it read: “Iran could produce its first quantity of 25 kg of WGU in Fordow in as little as two to three days.”

“Breaking out in both Fordow and the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP), the two facilities together could produce enough WGU for 11 nuclear weapons in the first month, enough for 15 nuclear weapons by the end of the second month, 19 by the end of the third month, 21 by the end of the fourth month, and 22 by the end of the fifth