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By Mark Stone, US correspondent

Two things can be true at the same time.

It's possible that the American airstrikes did "obliterate" the Iranian nuclear sites hit on Saturday night.

It's also possible that Iran retains stockpiles of enriched uranium and nuclear production equipment elsewhere - undisclosed.

We know from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has been obstructive, and we know too that the regime has attempted to build new facilities.

This pattern of behaviour makes it possible, even probable, that they have existing hidden programmes.

Preliminary intelligence reports shared with European governments indicated that Iran's highly-enriched uranium stockpile remains largely intact and that much of it was not concentrated in the Fordow site.

Given all this, the storm around the level of destruction caused by Saturday's American airstrikes could be a distraction. Nevertheless, the early morning Pentagon news conference revealed plenty.

There were two strands to the briefing. From the politician, we got a political attack, and from the general, we got the military detail.

Donald Trump is currently hosting a White House event to help push through his centrepiece tax legislation, the 'Big Beautiful Bill'.

While giving remarks about the bill, Trump briefly goes off track to mention America's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

"They hit the target and the target has now been proven to be obliterated," he says.

As we've reported, Democrats have rallied against the president over his assessment of the strikes, claiming Trump has overexaggerated their success without first seeing a full damage report.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has added his voice to the list of Democrats dissatisfied with a classified briefing about US strikes on Iran.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Schumer said there was "no coherent strategy" from the Trump administration.

"President Trump said that the nuclear stockpile was completely and totally obliterated. I did not receive an adequate answer to that question," he said. 

"What was clear is that there was no coherent strategy, no end game, no plan, no specific, no detailed plan on how Iran does not attain a nuclear weapon."

Schumer said that Congress needs to enforce the War Powers Act "and force them to articulate an answer to some specific questions and a coherent strategy right away".

The War Powers Act was passed in the 1970s to divide authority over military action between Congress and the president. Critics say Trump violated the act with his strikes on Iran.

Senators in the US have tonight been briefed by top Trump administration officials on America's strikes in Iran.

The classified briefing was led by defence secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe and Dan Caine, the highest-ranking officer in the US military.

Leaving the briefing, Democrat senator Chris Murphy said it "still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear programme by a handful of months".

"There's no doubt there was damage done to the programme, but the allegations that we have obliterated their programme just don't seem to stand up to reason," he said.

Murphy said that while he couldn't share any details from the briefing, "I just do not think the president was telling the truth when he said this programme was obliterated."

"I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the programmes," he added. "The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the programme was obliterated."

Another Democratic senator in the briefing, Richard Blumenthal, said the word "obliterated" was "much too strong", adding it was still unclear how much strikes may have destroyed Iran's nuclear programme.

The former boss of the Foreign Office, Lord Simon McDonald, has just been speaking on the Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge about events in the Middle East.

He says that "nobody knows the extent of the damage" to Iran's nuclear programme, but points out that strikes in Iraq and Syria on nascent nuclear programmes were previously successful.

He says: "It will be weeks, if not months, before there's an accurate assessment about how lasting the damage is. There's certainly been a lot of damage, but whether it is permanent, we won't know for a while."

Asked directly if the world is safer or not after the US strikes, Lord McDonald replies: "Safer. The idea of Iran with a nuclear weapon horrifies me."

With Israeli cities now safe from the threat of incoming Iranian missiles following the ceasefire, attention is now firmly back towards securing the release of hostages in Gaza.

Below are the scenes this evening in Tel Aviv, where protesters are taking part in a march to demand the immediate release of those being held captive.

The EU says discussions will continue over a recent report indicating that Israel has breached its human rights obligations in Gaza under the bloc's partnership deal.

The EU-Israel Association Agreement is a wide-ranging pact that covers economic cooperation in key industries, political dialogue and trade.

A majority of EU countries recently called for a review of the agreement in light of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. 

The subsequent report, released last week, said there were possible breaches of Israel's human rights obligations under the pact.

Spain has since called for the suspension of the agreement, but Germany and Italy have come down against such a move.

We've just heard from Leon Panetta, a former US defence secretary under Barack Obama and ex-director of the CIA from 2009-2011.

Speaking to chief presenter Mark Austin about America's recent strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, Panetta says too many people are "jumping to conclusions" over damage assessments.

The Trump administration has fought with US media over its coverage of a leaked intelligence report suggesting Iran's nuclear capabilities had not been "obliterated", as suggested by the White House.

"This is going to take a few weeks before we really develop an accurate assessment as to the level of damage," Panetta says.

"I really think it's important for everybody to take a deep breath and allow that process to take place."

Donald Trump has also attempted to deny reports that Iran managed to move some of its enriched uranium prior to US strikes on its facilities.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the US had "no indication" any uranium had been moved during her daily news briefing this afternoon (see 18.11 post)

But Panetta says it's a "fair assumption" that the Iranians would have taken steps to protect their enriched fuel from being damaged.

That, he adds, "raises a real concern" that Tehran could decide to continue its nuclear programme and attempt to construct a nuclear weapon.

Watch the full interview with Leon Panetta below:

Israel's "victory" against Iran opens the door for a "dramatic widening of the peace agreements," Benjamin Netanyahu says.

The Israeli leader said his country "fought bravely against Iran and achieved a great victory".

Iran has also claimed victory in the 12-day conflict, with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claiming Israel was "crushed" by Tehran's blows.

Poland's embassy in Tehran has taken over the duties of EU countries that have evacuated their posts, the Polish foreign ministry said today.

Portugal, Ireland and Germany temporarily relocated their embassy staff in Tehran abroad last week amid the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Bulgaria also closed its embassy in Tehran and evacuated diplomatic staff and their families to neighbouring Azerbaijan.

"We, being the country of the (EU) presidency, take over their duties," the Polish ministry's spokesperson said.