‘It was a stop’: inside Trump’s war room; ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’ was planned against Iran
In a step marking a dramatic growth in US-Iran tensions, US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered a high accurate military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, authorized the first major American military action on the Iranian soil since the demolition of American-backed Shah in 1979.The operation performed by a small fleet of US B -2 stealth bombers was planned under acute privacy and was carried out only a few hours after Trump returned to the White House from his New Jersey Golf Club. In classic trump fashion, she announced a few minutes of the strike after concluding this conclusion, “Congratulations to our great American warriors. There is not another army in the world that could do so. Now is the time of peace!,Photo: Inside Trump’s war room – a secret, surgical attackThe White House later released tightly controlled photographs from the classified position chamber, which was shown to Trump, who was wearing his signature red Maga hat, flank by his war cabinet. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary PT Hegseth, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wils were present, although National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was clearly missing among rumors of internal friction.
US President Donald Trump in the Oceent Room, 21 June, 2025 (Pic Credit: White House)
The photographs blurred major documents on the table, echoing the images of Obama-Yuga of 2011 without Laden raids. But where Obama’s pictures suggested discussions and calm, Trump bowed into theaterics –Part documentation, part spectacle, calculated for all effects.
US President Donald Trump in the Oceent Room, 21 June, 2025 (Pic Credit: White House)
Month of a strike, publicly refused to last hourAlthough Trump estimated uncertainty throughout the week, publicly noted whether it may take them “two weeks”, to decide them, the internal gears of the war were already at speed. By Thursday, he had approved the plans for detailed attacks. By Saturday morning, seven B -2 were already air.According to the Washington Post, a senior official of a senior administration admitted, “It was a stop.” It was read only in a tight circle: VP JD Vance, CIA Chief Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary Hegseth, National Security Envoy Steve Witcoff, and State Secretary Marco Rubio, others. Some were in darkness in the broader system of the White House until the bombs had already fallen.Final decision, it seems, there was not so much moment as a mood.Trump’s two -week bluff? Trump claims that it may take them “two weeks” to decide on Iran, a calculation was deception, designed to throw Tehran out of balance. Behind the curtain, however, had already decided, and secretly preparing for bombing takeoff. According to the Washington Post, an official of a senior administration later admitted the delayed thing “It was our attempt to throw the Iranians to the Iranians,” although there was some “truth” for it. Public individuals masked a fast, tightly conducted operation, which came out just 36 hours later.Iran’s red line: nuclear enhancementAt the center of conflict: Iran refused to stop its nuclear fuel promotion program, an issue that has harassed American presidents for decades. Last week, in Geneva, European diplomats met with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, but the talks stopped. Tehran will not move until the bombing stops. Trump, in turn, will not stop until Iran surrendered its nuclear future.This time, the ultimatum came up with an infallible danger: Trump warned Tehran to “evacuate” and told Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khameni that “he could be ahead.”Despite the bombing, Trump never spoke directly to the Iranian officials. Instead, Witkoff held backchalnale dialogue. Demand for Trump: Zero Promotion, Full disruption. Iran’s reply: No.Behind the curtain: friction, funds and maga war roomWhile the B -2S spread across the Atlantic, Trump was not in a bunker, he was in a funderizer. Vice President JD Vance was flying back from California. The air of generally masked the adjacent shockwave.But inside the position room, the president’s loyal cadre gathered. Among them: Social media gatekeeper Dan Skevino, Press Secretary Karolin Levit, and even AG Palm Bandy, who were not included in the plan, but were brought to the eleventh hour.
Top American Officer in the Status Room, June 21, 2025 (Pic Credit: White House)
Outside the government, Trump’s populist whispering, Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec were placed in a loop to sideline political support. The strike was not just a military message, it was a moment of campaign in making.“He was listening to the people in the ideological perspective of his political base”, the Washington Post quoted a senior officer of the senior administration as saying. He said, “Finally, the President realized that this is a decision that should support Aadhaar and retreat, because finally, he is stopping a struggle that could be very well if the supreme leader instructed Iran to make Iran a nuclear weapon,” he said. Global results and strategic calculationsOn June 13, the strike was given properly a few days after Israel launched its aggressive launch against Iran. By Midweak, Israeli’s Hawaii Dharmas helped the American military calculations towards optimism.Rit. Lieutenant General Charlie “Tuna” Moore clearly stated it: “Although we could unilaterally execute our operation, without a doubt it was beneficial for the United States to be in the form of VIII.”Even the VP Vance, who had individually raised concerns, eventually signed. His Iraq war experience made him alert, but not interrupted. “He kicked the tire,” an official said, “he said.
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A calculated gamblingFinally, Trump’s decision marked a sharp axis with American hesitation for decades. Since Carter, every President has considered the idea of the entire strike on the Iranian region. Trump just did this.Whether it is stable or moved forward, the region remains to be seen.Rubio has started briefing post-strikes to European colleagues. Iran, for now, is unlikely to be unanswered.In Sunday’s interviews, Vance admitted that no one knew even when Trump made calls.He said, “I don’t know that either of us knew properly when the President left the President and decided,” He said “meet the press.”
