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There's been no shortage of reporting and speculation on how much damage was done to Iran's underground Fordow nuclear facility by American strikes last week.

General Dan Caine, the highest-ranking officer in the US military, told a news conference at the Pentagon today that the strikes targeted Fordow's ventilation shafts.

"All six weapons at each vent at Fordow went exactly where they were intended to go," he said.

Watch below as he uses a simulation to demonstrate how the attack unfolded.

The World Health Organisation says it delivered its first medical shipment into Gaza in almost four months yesterday.

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said nine trucks carrying essential medical supplies entered the enclave from Kerem Shalom in southern Israel.

He said the trucks arrived "without any looting incident, despite the high-risk conditions along the route".

The aid arrival comes amid the near total collapse of Gaza's health system, caused by extensive damage to medical infrastructure and the disruption of pharmaceutical supplies.

Iran's supreme leader has warned Israel that its aggression against Tehran will "come at a heavy cost".

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted the message on his Hebrew language account on X.

Earlier, Khamenei said in a video address that Iran had "delivered a hand slap to America's face" and "crushed" Israel (see 11.47am post).

Here are the scenes in Tehran today, showing the impact of Israeli strikes.

The Iranian capital was one of the areas hit hardest during the 12-day conflict, with Israel's military claiming it had "complete aerial superiority" over the skies of Tehran during that time.

Iran's health ministry says at least 627 people were killed and almost 5,000 injured during the 12 days of attacks on the country.

Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly requested a two-week break in his long-running corruption trial, due to resume in Jerusalem on Monday.

According to a filing made by the Israeli PM's lawyer Amit Hadad, as quoted in the , Netanyahu must devote his immediate time to "diplomatic, national and security issues" in light of "regional and global developments".

Those issues include "managing the war in Gaza and dealing with the issue of the hostages," Hadad writes to the Jerusalem District Court.

Netanyahu is being tried on charges of fraud and breach of trust, and accepting a bribe in the form of media coverage. He has denied any wrongdoing.

His request comes after an unprecedented call by Donald Trump for the cancellation of the charges (see 6.44am post), describing the case against Netanyahu as a "witch hunt".

Netanyahu thanked Trump for his intervention today, writing he was "deeply moved" by the US president's "heartfelt support for me" on X.

During his news briefing earlier, Pete Hegseth applauded what he described to be successful US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran and repeatedly rallied against media.

Alongside General Dan Caince, he packed a lot in across around 45 minutes - so to get you up to speed, here's a summary of what he said in seven bullet points:

• Hegseth said what Donald Trump achieved at the NATO summit was "game-changing" and "historic". It should be noted here that yesterday leaders agreed to a 5% of GDP spending target on defence;
• The defence secretary criticised mainstream US outlets and called reports about US strikes on Iran's nuclear capability failing untrue;
• Quizzed on whether he was certain none of the uranium at Iran's Fordow facility was moved, Hegseth said: "Of course, we're watching every single aspect"; 
• US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine said Patriot missiles defended an Iranian attack on a US base in Qatar on Monday;
• He also said Operation Midnight Hammer was the "culmination of 15 years of incredible work";
• He explained that a defence threat reduction agency officer was brought into a vault at an undisclosed location and briefed on something going on in Iran for security purposes in 2009;
• The army official said all six weapons hit Fordow nuclear site where the US wanted.

US strikes on Iran have "broken the aura of invincibility that the Iranian regime has enjoyed" for decades, an expert has said.

Speaking to Sky's presenter Jayne Secker, research fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democrats, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, said the US victory in Iran "has been decisive".

"I think this has forced Iran to step back," he said.

"This has also broken the aura of invincibility that the Iranian regime has enjoyed for the past two decades at least."

He said it was understood that the nuclear facilities had been "badly damaged".

"It seems that there is almost a consensus that the weaponisation programme of Iran is no more," he said.

He also said that the Iran's relations with its proxies, such as the Houthis and Hezbollah, had also been weakened in the attack.

The centrifuges at the Fordow nuclear site in Iran are "no longer operational" following the US strikes, Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has said.

Grossi said his team could deduct on the basis of satellite images, the consequences of the bombing over the weekend.

"Given the power of these bombs and technical characteristics of the centrifuges, we do know that they are no longer operational, simply because of the vibration, which causes considerable, important physical damage," he told Radio France Internationale.

"I know the plant very well, it's a network of tunnels with different types of activity.

"What we saw on the pictures corresponds more or less to the enrichment hall, that's what’s been hit."

We reported earlier that Iran had approved a bill to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (see post at 11.01am).

That came after Grossi said getting inspectors back to Iran's nuclear facilities to assess the impact of US and Israeli military strikes was his "top priority".

Donald Trump has shared some comments in the last few moments on the news briefing by Pete Hegseth, calling it "one of the greatest" news conferences he had ever seen.

This is what he had to say...

Separately, he also said nothing was taken out of the facility at the Iran nuclear site...

Pete Hegseth set out to scold the media and herald the US military for what he said were successful strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

The US defence secretary was taking issue with coverage of Saturday's operation, which a preliminary intel report suggested didn't cause the "obliteration" Donald Trump quickly described.

"Was he the defence secretary or the defensive secretary? He was certainly angry, that much is true," our US correspondent Mark Stone said on air a short while ago.

"Hegseth - former Fox News host now turned politician and a man who doesn't mince his words - he was very clear that his focus today was to blame the media for what he said was somehow them questioning the ability of the pilots and the crews that carried out that mission."

Stone adds: "For what it's worth, I've not read a single bit of news from the US media that has been critical of those soldiers and airmen and women who carried out that strike on Saturday night."

But what is also "definitely the case", he added, is the leaked report was incomplete.

"And Hegseth pointed that out. It was a preliminary, low-confidence report," he said.

"I think it's fair to say that was not necessarily made clear in the flurry of headlines that came out a couple of days ago when that report was leaked."

Trump's NATO vibes

One point that may have been missed through all this, Stone added, is Trump's apparent change following the NATO summit yesterday.

"Donald Trump came away from that summit genuinely with a different vibe to him," he said.

"He seems to now have recognised that Europe is prepared to pay its own way, is prepared to look after its own security.

"I think it was sort of a change moment for Donald Trump. The only caveat is he does tend to change his mind quite a lot."