First vid of Trump's B2s after mammoth 37hr ‘bullseye' Iran blitz… as Russia warns US ‘Pandora's Box has been opened'
VICTORIOUS RETURN First vid of Trump's B2s after mammoth 37hr 'bullseye' Iran blitz… as Russia warns US 'Pandora's Box has been opened'
AMERICA'S B-2 stealth bombers have landed back in Missouri after a mammoth 37-hour round trip to blitz the mad mullahs' nuke plants.
Donald Trump has hailed the Operation Midnight Hammer as a "bullseye" that caused "monumental damage" to Iran's doomsday plot.
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A massive banner in Israel thanks US President Donald Trump following the strike
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Russia has slammed the US as opening 'Pandora's box'
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A B-2 stealth bomber returns to Missouri
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New video shows the B-2 Spirits landing back at Whiteman Air Force Base after seven flew all the way to Iran and dropped 14 bunker buster bombs on nuke bases.
It comes as the Iranian foreign minister is in Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin as he desperately tries to get help from allies.
Vlad's man at the UN has warned that America has opened "Pandora's box" and that "no one knows what new catastrophes and suffering it will bring".
Russia has a close relationship with Iran and buys drones from the Ayatollah to fire at Ukraine.
The terror-stoking Islamist regime in Tehran has already fired a fresh barrage of missiles at Israel on Monday morning.
But what the hiding Ayatollah's revenge directly against America looks like is yet to be seen.
Some think he will target nearby US bases in Iraq and Syria with rockets or drone strikes.
But Iran also threatened to unleash sleeper cells inside the US if it was attacked, according to NBC.
The Ayatollah sent the message to Trump through an intermediary while he was at the G-7 meeting last week.
Tehran may also close the Strait of Hormuz - a bottleneck entrance to the Persian Gulf where nearly a quarter of the oil shipped around the world passes through.
Iran's parliament voted to shut the strait on Sunday - but it's up to the supreme leader to make the final order.
Choking off the Gulf would send global oil prices skyrocketing and derail the world economy.
It may also lead to fighting with the US Navy's massive Fifth Fleet based nearby, which is tasked with keeping the strait open.
Trump has already warned that further action could be taken if Tehran doesn't cut a peace deal.
He said in the nationally televised speech at the White House: "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 the Ayatollah's mad nuke plot could live another day after Iran claimed to have smuggled out its enriched uranium before the Fordow plant was bombed.
If true, the material could be sent to a secret hidden base where they may be able to turn it into a bomb.
Trump suggested early Monday morning that he may topple the Ayatollah to "Make Iran Great Again".
Inspired by his Make America Great Again (MAGA) political movement, the president called for "Make Iran Great Again" (MIGA).
Trump wrote on Truth Social: "It's not politically correct to use the term, 'Regime Change' but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn't there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!"
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