How a U.S. Bomb Could Cripple Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

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  Israel hits a nuclear facility in Iran's capital,

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  even as its ultimate target remains just out of reach.

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  We'll learn about the American weapon that could change that.

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  Plus, a big win for the crypto industry as the Senate passes a bill to regulate stablecoins.

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  It's Wednesday, June 18th.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  We begin in Iran,

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  where the Israeli military this morning said it struck a nuclear centrifuge plant in the capital Tehran.

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  Some 50 jets participated in the mission, which also hit missile factories.

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  Israel claims that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at developing nuclear weapons,

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  while Iran says it's peaceful.

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  The attacks come as President Trump weighs a potential U.S. strike on Iran,

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  and his experts say that Washington could add a key bit of firepower to the fight in the form of a bunker-buster bomb,

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  potentially capable of hitting underground nuclear targets that have so far been beyond Israel's reach.

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  Joining me with more on this is Wall Street Journal Middle East correspondent Benoit Faucon.

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  Benoit, you've just written a story about this 30,000-pound so-called massive ordnance penetrator,

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  a bomb which,

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