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‘Extraordinary and unprecedented’: The media reaction to Trump’s Iran attack

Poynter · Tom Jones · last updated

Stunning news broke Saturday night when it was learned the United States, under the orders of President Donald Trump, bombed three sites in Iran in an effort to dismantle that country’s nuclear program.

In an address to the nation on Saturday night, Trump called the attacks a “spectacular military success,” adding, “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”

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