House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi claimed that President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear weapons facilities without congressional approval was “unconstitutional,” despite previously saying that a similar strike in Libya by then-President Barack Obama was proper.
Earlier this week, following the strikes, Trump addressed the nation with an update on the situation and noted that America was not “at war” with the Iranians.
“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of Terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success! Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump said.
He explicitly named Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan as the targeted sites, stating that a “full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,” which was buried hundreds of feet inside a mountain.
But Pelosi, who has been a bitter Democratic partisan throughout Trump’s time in office, issued a statement condemning the action.
