President Trump on Saturday said that additional American strikes in Iran are not off the table, warning that other places will be targeted should the Islamic Republic refuse to “make peace.” He says that the attacks on three sites within Iran’s borders “completely and totally obliterated” the country’s ability to pursue a nuclear weapon. 

Speaking from the East Room of the White House late Saturday night, Mr. Trump — flanked by Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio. and Secretary Hegseth — said it is now up to the Iranians to decide if the bombs will continue to fall. 

“There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran,” Mr. Trump warned. He called the bombings of the nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan a “spectacular military success.”

“There are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult … But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets,” the president said in his brief remarks to the nation. 

Mr. Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, General Dan Caine, would have a press conference at the Pentagon on Sunday morning. 

In a Truth Social post on Saturday evening, Mr. Trump announced that the United States had conducted a “very successful” attack at the three nuclear facilities inside of Iran. 

The president spent Friday night at his New Jersey golf club before returning to the White House on Saturday evening. Less than two hours after he met with his national security team, Mr. Trump announced that the bombings had taken place. 

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space,” Mr. Trump writes on Truth Social. 

He says a “full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow.”

“All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this,” Mr. Trump says. 

At the end of his message, the president urged the Iranians to come back to the negotiating table to resume talks about their nuclear ambitions. 

“NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!” Mr. Trump wrote in his Truth Social post. 

Just days earlier, Mr. Trump had said he would make a decision on whether or not to strike Iran within the next two weeks. “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” Mr. Trump said in a statement on Thursday afternoon. 

There is a burgeoning anti-war effort gaining steam in Congress, with several lawmakers signing on to resolutions in both the House and Senate that would limit Mr. Trump’s ability to launch a war effort. 

One Republican lawmaker, Congressman Thomas Massie, wrote on X on Saturday night that Mr. Trump’s strikes inside Iran were “not Constitutional.” He has introduced a measure in the House, along with more than a dozen liberal Democrats, to declare that Mr. Trump is required to come to Congress for any authorization of force against the Islamic Republic. 

Senator Kaine, whose war powers resolution will receive a vote on the Senate floor at the end of this coming week, said the strikes demonstrated “horrible judgment” by the president. 

“The American public is overwhelmingly opposed to the U.S. waging war on Iran,” Mr. Kaine said in a post on X. “I will push for all Senators to vote on whether they are for this third idiotic Middle East war.”

Many Republicans in Congress were quick to praise the president and said he had acted boldly. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Risch — a staunch ally of Mr. Trump’s — said in a statement that while the strike was necessary, this conflict is still primarily Israel’s. 

This war is Israel’s war not our war, but Israel is one of our strongest allies and is disarming Iran for the good of the world,” Mr. Risch writes. “This strike will put an end to those ambitions.”

“This is not the start of a forever war. There will not be American boots on the ground in Iran,” the chairman says. “This was a precise, limited strike, which was necessary and by all accounts was very successful.”

Arguably Mr. Trump’s most strident defender in the House, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, had been urging the president to stay out of this war. In a post on X on Saturday night, Ms. Greene did not defend the bombings, and instead told people to “pray for peace.”

“Let us pray that we are not attacked by terrorists on our homeland after our border was open for the past 4 years and over 2 Million gotaways came in,” Ms. Greene says. “Let us pray for peace.”

Some Democrats went so far as to say that the president has committed impeachment offenses by using American forces to bomb Iran. “This is an unambiguous impeachable offense,” Congressman Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat, said Saturday night. 

“I’m not saying we have the votes to impeach,” Mr. Casten says. “I’m saying that you DO NOT do this without Congressional approval.”

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the attacks a “grave violation of the Constitution.”

“It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment,” she says.