The strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities through “Operation Midnight Hammer” went far in “countering the apocalyptic threat posed by an Iranian nuclear arsenal,” Sen. Ted Cruz said Saturday as news was breaking about the attacks on Iran’s three major nuclear facilities.

“The prospect of the Iranian regime acquiring nuclear weapons represents the most acute immediate threat to America and our allies,” the Texas Republican posted on X. “When the Ayatollah chants ‘Death to America,’ he means it, and the reason he is building nuclear weapons is because he intends to use them.”

President Donald Trump, he added, said that Iran’s threats couldn’t be countered without dismantling the regime’s enrichment capacity.

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