Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Watch: Trump says the US will talk with Iran “next week” The head of the CIA has said US strikes “severely damaged” Iran’s nuclear facilities and set them back years, diverging from a leaked intelligence report that angered President Donald Trump by downplaying the raid’s impact. John Ratcliffe, the...
Shayan Sardarizadeh & Thomas Spencer BBC Verify BBC Satellite images have revealed new signs of damage to access routes and tunnels at Iran’s underground Fordo enrichment facility which was targeted by Israel on 23 June, a day after the US dropped bunker-buster bombs on the site. Previously unseen damage is also visible near tunnel entrances...
Carys Nally and Samuel Kerr BBC Newsnight BBC The truth about tens of thousands British veterans who tested nuclear bombs has been “covered up for decades”, the mayor of Greater Manchester has alleged. Andy Burnham told BBC Newsnight the government must act while the remaining survivors are still alive. In the 1950s and 60s, servicemen...
The site of Fordo probably is probably the most spied on place on the planet. Western intelligence first went public in 2009 that it was home to a secret nuclear facility and now understanding the damage done by US strikes will be vital in determining where the conflict goes next. A leaked Defence Intelligence Agency...
BBC The UK will “match China and Russia with nuclear jets” reports The Times, in a piece about the UK purchasing 12 new fighter jets which can be equipped with nuclear bombs. Acquiring the jets is “the biggest expansion of the deterrent since the Cold War,” it says. Another headline on the front page is...
The Defense Intelligence Agency has produced a 5-page preliminary report on the strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities which concludes the strikes were partially successful but failed to destroy the underground sites. That report seems to have leaked instantly to ever major news agency, starting with CNN. The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was...
The US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy the country’s nuclear programme and probably only set it back by months, according to a Pentagon intelligence assessment. The Islamic Republic’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not eliminated in the bombings, sources familiar with an evaluation by the Defense Intelligence Agency told the BBC’s US...
BBC BBC Persian received a photo said to show damaged buildings in Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh A senior nuclear scientist was among nine people killed in an overnight Israeli strike in northern Iran, Iranian officials and state TV have said, hours before a ceasefire ending 11 days of conflict took effect. State TV cited sources who said...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Shortly after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States had conducted strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an address in English, with a gleeful look...
A continuous flight over 18 hours, multiple mid-air refuelings, and a series of decoys – this is how the mission to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities played out, according to four-star General Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the US military. Although the full impact of what the...
And Iran warns of “everlasting consequences”. Read full article at source...
Reuters A satelite image of Fordo, one of three Iranian nuclear sites hit by Trump US President Donald Trump says the American military has completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and Israel. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear...
And away we go. 🚨 #BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST ANNOUNCED THE US HAS BOMBED IRAN’S NUCLEAR SITES So three days is within the two weeks. We successfully bombed Iran. Well done, President Trump. The right decision. pic.twitter.com/asgrG2p2OE — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 21, 2025 And I guess those B-2s crossing over to Guam, on their way...
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The director of national intelligence had previously said Iran was not building nuclear weapons Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could produce nuclear weapons “within weeks”, months after she testified before Congress that the country was not building them. The US Director of National Intelligence said...
A relatively new talking point has been floated that there is no evidence independent from Israel’s intelligence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. In the most narrow of senses, one could argue that this is true. After all, none of us is a mind-reader, and it is conceivable that the Iranian regime just loves the...