US bombs Iran recap: ‘Gross and unprecedented violation’ Iran Foreign Ministry slams US bombing attacks

The United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released a statement after the US bombed three nuclear sites in Iran.

“Following attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran - inlcuding Fordow - the IAEA can confirm that no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported as of this time,” the statement says.

“IAEA will provide further assessments on situation in Iran as more information becomes available.”

Former foreign minister Alexander Downer says Australia’s response to the US action in Iran “will be defining’ and warned it would be a historical moment in relations with its key ally.

“Australia’s response to the US action in Iran will be defining. Australia should welcome US bombing of Iran’s nuclear program,” he said in a statement on X.

“We’ve been a US ally since 1951 as well as a consistent supporter of nuclear non-proliferation.

“The Democrats will have to change their rhetoric: Trump was never an isolationist. As Andrew Robert’s says, Churchill had to face the horrific decision to sink the French fleet in Algeria.

“Trump had to face the decision to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Both terrible decisions to have to make but both had the courage to do the right thing.”

So far, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office have only issued a brief and carefully worded statement from a “government spokesperson”.

Millions of people are scrambling to get into air raid shelters in Israel with sirens ringing out across the nation.

The warning sirens are being heard across Israel and also in Jordan as rockets are being fired from Iran as a reprisal for the US bombing raids of nuclear facilities.

Greens Senator for NSW David Shoebridge has called for Australia to distance itself from the US in the wake of America’s strikes on Iran.

He has called for several “practical actions” to distance Australia from the US.

“Our government needs to distance ourselves from these US attacks,” he told ABC on Sunday AEST.

“The practical actions here are to start distancing ourselves from Donald Trump and his increasingly erratic and violent approach to the world.

“That means removing ourselves from AUKUS, not trying to double down on it.

“Removing those US bases here. The Albanese government should make a clear statement that no military base in Australia … will be used for this unfolding US war.

“Will we put Australian troops out of joint operations with the United States?”

New South Wales Greens Senator David Shoebridge has labelled the US strikes on three nuclear facilities as an “illegal, unlawful, and dangerous escalation” and labelled Donald Trump a “bully”.

Speaking on ABC on Sunday AEST Senator Shoebridge called for the Australian government to “put some red lines on the escalation of violence by Israel”.

“This is an illegal, unlawful, and dangerous escalation that threatens tipping the world into a dangerous conflict,” he said.

“Where is the red-line the Albanese government has for the escalation and violence?”

He said Australians anxious about the spiral of violence in the world wanted their government to “be a force for peace”.

But accused Anthony Albanese as “being silent when a bully like Donald Trump breaks international law” and accused the government of “complicit” in such speechlessness.

A US official said that six B-2 bombers dropped a dozen 30,000-pound (1.3 tonnes) bunker-buster bombs on the Fordo nuclear site, which lies deep underground.

7NEWS is reporting that navy submarines also fired 30 TLAM cruise missiles at the Natanz and Isfahan sites.

One B-2 also dropped two bunker busters on Natanz, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.

Australian opposition leader Sussan Ley has supported the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and said destructive weapons in the hands of the regime would be a “a serious and direct threat to world peace”.

Her firm statement was a contrast from a short and carefully worded statement from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office on Sunday AEST.

Ms Ley said the Iranian regime continued to “engage in terrorism” including by supporting “its proxies: Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen”.

“While Australians will never seek conflict in the world, we can never forget that the Iranian regime is a militantly theocratic autocracy,” she said.

“It expressly seeks the destruction of our allies, enacts extrajudicial killings of political dissidents and brutally represses the rights of women and girls.

“It is the Iranian people who are the victims of this brutal regime and we stand in solidarity with them.

“The Coalition stands with the United States of America today.

“We can never allow the Iranian regime the capacity to enact its objectives of the destruction of the United States and Israel.”

Opposition leader Sussan Ley says the Coalition has supported the US President Donald Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities.

While the Liberal leader released a strong statement on Sunday AEST, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese left it to a government spokesman to issue lines on the historic strikes.

In a statement, Ms Ley said America’s strikes were “proactive action” and the world should “never accept a nuclear-armed Iranian regime”.

“The Coalition supports actions taken by the United States of America to ensure that the Iranian regime is stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons,” she said.

“It was made clear by the International Atomic and Energy Agency on 12 June that Iran was in breach of its Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations after stockpiling more than 400 kilograms of 60 per cent enriched uranium at Fordow—the last step in enrichment towards a nuclear weapon.

“The world can never accept a nuclear-armed Iranian regime and today the United States military has taken proactive action to ensure that we never need to.”

The world is reacting to Donald Trumps’ decision to bomb Irananian nuclear facilities with some condemning the actions.

“We strongly condemn the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which constitutes a dangerous escalation of the conflict in the Middle East,” said Cuba’s communist political leader Muguel Diaz-Canel.

“The aggression seriously violates the UN Charter and international law and plunges humanity into a crisis with irreversible consequences.”

Donald Trump has said he “decided a long time ago” he would act to stop Iran which he slammed as “the world’s number one state sponsor of terror”.

During a snap White House press conference the US President labelled Iran the “bully of the Middle East” and the nuclear program was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

He spoke of his disdain for actions taken by Iran in the past few decades.

“For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel,” Mr Trump said.

“They’ve been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs, that was their specialty.

“Hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate and in particular so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani.

“I decided a long time ago I would not let this happen. It will not continue.”