Iran lashed out at the US for crossing “a very big red line” with its risky decision to launch strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.

"Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's No. 1 state sponsor of terror," Trump said in a late-night announcement in the East Room on June 21,

The world grappled Sunday with the enormous implications after the United States inserted itself into Israel's war against Iran with an attack that raised urgent questions about what remained of Tehran’s nuclear program and how its weakened military might respond.