Under Trump's direction, the U.S. effectively joins a 10-day-old war, initiated when Israel began bombing Iran's nuclear and military infrastructure. The president has said previously he did not want to get involved in conflict in the Middle East but that "that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon."

Saturday’s U.S. strike on Iranian targets “was the easy part… once you’ve got a toe in the water, you’ve got a foot in the water and then you’re all the way in,” a foreign policy analyst told HuffPost.

President Donald Trump confirmed that U.S. B-2 bombers hit Iran's Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear complexes overnight, drawing Washington into Israel's widening war with Tehran. In a brief address,