President Donald Trump announced Saturday evening that US military forces had dropped bombs on three Iranian nuclear facilities, ending a weeklong deliberation period over joining Israel’s campaign against Tehran and thrusting the United States squarely into an escalating Middle East conflict.

President Donald Trump addressed the nation after the United States struck three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday.

The series of photos that the White House published on its X account Saturday gives the public a rare glimpse inside the Situation Room — again stirring the intrigue that occurs any time pictures from the highly secret complex are released. ( Recall the photo of then-president Barack Obama watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden?)