June 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—At 7:50 p.m. EDT, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
At 10:00 p.m. President Trump, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, gave a very brief press conference, announcing the “spectacular success” of the strikes on the “world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” saying, “They must now make peace.” He congratulated Bibi Netanyahu and the Israeli military, saying we “worked like a team, as never before,” and congratulated the American military and the “wonderful machines” which dropped the bombs, saying “hopefully we’ll no longer need their services in this capacity,” but threatening that “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.”
Axios News reported that Trump had informed Israel prior to the strikes, quoting a senior Israeli official. Citing unnamed sources, CBS News reports that the U.S. sent a message to Iran following tonight’s strikes, insisting that they were limited to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and that Washington is not seeking regime change, in an apparent attempt at de-escalation.
Iranian state media confirm that the Islamic Republic’s Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow nuclear sites were attacked by “enemy strikes.” The IRIB state broadcaster claims the sites, along with their enriched uranium stockpiles, were evacuated beforehand.
By the time you are reading this, Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China will have spoken about the changed situation, and Iran may have responded, or not.
This is exactly what the British were hoping Trump would do, and it puts the entire planet in a very dangerous situation. It also alienates Trump from his anti-war MAGA base, jeopardizing his own security and ability to govern. Bibi Netanyahu has already provided the script: “Iran attempted to assassinate Trump.” If any harm came to President Trump, the United States could be thrown into chaos, just as the British and their regime-changing toadies desire. They surely believe that we are now a giant step closer to rejoining the Empire—er “Commonwealth.”
In this situation, the American people must be mobilized to demand that under no circumstances can nuclear weapons be used to “finish the job,” if it turns out that, contrary to claims, Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability was not destroyed. The only domain in which this devolving crisis can be solved, is in the context of an entirely new global economic and security architecture, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been proposing.
By Monday morning, June 23, The LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute will have released a statement for mass distribution across the United States, with a special focus on Manhattan, and an international distribution as well. It is important to have people in the streets, talking to other people, and handing them a leaflet which cannot be censored in cyberspace. Demand that our governments act to take the threat of nuclear war off the table. 500,000 leaflets will go out before the Fourth of July with your help. Visit The LaRouche Organization website on Monday morning, June 23, for marching orders and the PDF to print out wherever you are.
