The strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities through "Operation Midnight Hammer" went far in "countering the apocalyptic threat posed by an Iranian nuclear arsenal," Sen. Ted Cruz said Saturday as news was breaking about the attacks on the country's three major nuclear facilities.

"The prospect of the Iranian regime acquiring nuclear weapons represents the most acute immediate threat to America and our allies," the Texas Republican posted on X. "When the Ayatollah chants 'Death to America' he means it, and the reason he is building nuclear weapons is because he intends to use them."

President Donald Trump, he added, that Iran's threats couldn't be countered without dismantling the regime's enrichment capacity.

"The President and his negotiators spent two months exploring whether the regime would agree to a negotiated settlement that met America's national security needs," he said. "At the end of that period, Iranian regime officials declared that instead of agreeing to deal, they would open a new enrichment facility and install more advanced centrifuges."

And although Israel launched a preemptive attack against the regime, it couldn't disable the nuclear activities at Fordo, "an underground enrichment bunker built into a mountain which was legitimized by the [former President Barack] Obama-era deal," he said. "As long as Iran was able to access and enrich uranium, they could still rush to build a nuclear arsenal."