14m ago 03.10 BST Donald Trump’s administration told the UN security council on Tuesday that its weekend strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities had “degraded” Iran’s nuclear program – short of the US president’s earlier assertion that the facilities had been “obliterated”. The US’s acting envoy to the UN, Dorothy Shea, said in a statement to the security council that the US strikes “effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear weapon”. Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that in its 12 days of war with Iran, Israel removed the threat of nuclear annihilation and was determined to stop any Iranian attempt to revive its program. “We have removed two immediate existential threats to us: the threat of nuclear annihilation and the threat of annihilation by 20,000 ballistic missiles,” he said in video remarks issued by his office. Iran has insisted its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes. Share

37m ago 02.46 BST Trump insists Iranian nuclear sites ‘completely destroyed’ and attacks media Donald Trump has blasted CNN and the New York Times, claiming they have teamed up to “demean one of the most successful military strikes in history”, and has declared Iran’s nuclear sites are “completely destroyed”. The US president also claimed in the post on his Truth Social platform that the two media organisations are “getting slammed by the public”. Trump’s statement came after reporting of an initial classified US assessment of his strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend said they did not destroy two of the sites and likely only set back the nuclear program by a few months, according to two people familiar with the report. The report produced by the Pentagon’s intelligence arm concluded – as earlier detailed – that key components of the nuclear program including centrifuges were capable of being restarted within months. The report also found that much of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be put to use for a possible nuclear weapon was moved before the strikes and may have been moved to other secret nuclear sites maintained by Iran. The White House said the intelligence report was “flat-out wrong”. Here is Trump’s Truth Social post on Wednesday in full: FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC! Share Updated at 02.59 BST