Washington – American pilots, who flew into a bombing mission targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, will attend the July 4 ceremony of the White House this week, the press secretary of the White House Karolin Lewet said on Monday.
This incident also features a flyover facility B -2 spirit bombersAn operation ordered by President Trump used jets used to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment sites earlier this month.
In addition to the Whitman Air Force Base in Missouri – where the bombers are based – will also participate in the event, which is expected to comment by Mr. Trump.
“President Trump is ready to celebrate the establishment of our country in the nation’s capital on Friday. To attend the festival, the strength of the US Air Force will operate a flyover with our state -of -the -art F -22S, B -2S, and F -35S feature -a statement used for decisive and successful strikes on the nuclear facilities of Iran said in a statement.
Mr. Trump earlier said that the pilots will be invited to the White House at some point in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” in the last weekend.
Pentagon said Seven B -2 bombers Participated in attacks on Fordo and Natanz, flying continuously for the whole 36 hours Round trips from Missouri to Iran and back require help from mid-air refueling and fighter jets. The B -2S dropped 14 “bunker buster” bombs on Fordo and Natanz, while submarines launched cruise missiles on Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site.
Separately, another group of B -2S flew to act as a decoy in the Pacific region.
Mr. Trump has described the operation-which came after a more week of Israeli bombing of the Iranian goals-as an unfit success, stating that the major Iranian nuclear facilities were “slanting” in the strike.
The exact scope of damage is not clear. An initial intelligence report Assessed The nuclear program may have been set back in less than a year, but some officers Have pushed back on those conclusions And says that new intelligence indicates that the program was set back by “years”.
Rafael Mariano Gosi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran’s nuclear capabilities suffered “serious damage”, but not “total damage”, not in A Interview “Face the Nation with CBS News. ,
