Trump-Iran live: 'Decisive' Iran strikes leave world 'much safer' - but ex-CIA director warns 'don't jump to conclusions' over damage
Donald Trump's press secretary has hailed the US strikes on Iran for making the world a "much safer place". She spoke after the defence secretary furiously defended the mission in the wake of an intel report that questioned its success. Follow live and listen to Trump 100 below.
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Scottish Sun
32 minutes ago
- Scottish Sun
Trump reveals what mystery trucks at nuke site were REALLY doing before blitz… destroying claims Iran rushed uranium out
URANIUM DELIRIUM Trump reveals what mystery trucks at nuke site were REALLY doing before blitz… destroying claims Iran rushed uranium out DONALD Trump has revealed what the mystery trucks at Iran's Fordow nuke plant were doing there before he blitzed the base. Satellite pictures captured the lorries at the underground bunker complex just hours before the US hammered it with B-2 stealth bombers in the "historically successful" Operation Midnight Hammer. 4 The Fordow plant before and after the the US bombed the site Credit: Reuters 4 The moment the missile hit the earth in the test footage 4 Trucks at the plant on June 19 - days before the US bombed it Credit: Getty 4 Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine give a briefing on Operation Midnight Hammer Credit: Getty Some had speculated online those workers had been trying to remove the enriched uranium from the base. But Trump has posted on social media after a Pentagon briefing today and said the trucks were concrete workers. Iranian workers had desperately tried to cover the vents of the complex in concrete in the hours before the US bombed. The bunker buster bombs hit their targets just hours later and flew down the shafts and obliterated the facility. Trump said: "The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. "Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!" Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed the Iranian's desperate attempts during the briefing held with Dan "Raizin" Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Caine talked through previously unseen footage of the 30,000lb GBU-57 "bunker buster" weapon being tested. One of the bombs can be seen in slo-mo hitting a dirt target, travelling through a thick layer of earth, and then exploding in a cavity below it in the new footage. The footage came as part of the administration's efforts to prove Operation Midnight Hammer blitz on Fordow "obliterated" the plant. Caine also revealed information about the planning for the mission including that one person in the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) had been solely studying the underground bunker complex for 15 years. That person, whose identity is classified, had effectively been able give a design of the base for the Air Force to then design a mission around. Caine said that the 30,000lb bombs had been designed with Iran's nuclear program in mind and from studying Fordow. He said: "The weapons were designed, planned, and delivered to achieve the objections in the mission space." Developing the bomb had, at one point, been using the most supercomputer hours in the United States. Caine said he didn't have intelligence on the damage, but could confirm the bombs had released properly, hit their target, and exploded. One of the pilots told Caine after the mission: "This is the brightest explosion I have ever seen, it literally looked like daylight". The Pentagon briefing on the operation came just hours after Iran's fanatical supreme leader broke his silence after not being seen in a week. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, claimed victory over Israel and America despite his country being hammered in the "12 Day War". Khamenei is hiding away in a bunker deep below ground despite the ceasefire as he fears being assassinated by secret agents, the New York Times reports. The supreme leader was seen in a video sitting in front of the same brown curtain - presumably still cowardly hiding in his bunker - as he had last week. On Israel, he ludicrously claimed Iran had almost crushed the country and the government in Tel Aviv was on the verge of collapse. That's despite the IDF controlling the skies over Tehran, assassinating dozens of top generals and nuclear scientists, and destroying dozens of valuable missile batteries in just 12 days of fighting. On America, Khamenei claimed to have given the country a "severe slap" to its face and that it had "gained nothing" from the attack on Iran's nuke plants. The Ayatollah said: 'The American regime entered a direct war because it felt that if it did not, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. "However, it gained no achievements from this war. 'Here, too, the Islamic Republic emerged victorious, and in return, the Islamic Republic delivered a severe slap to America's face.' Khamenei also bizarrely claimed his rockets had hit the American's Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, despite his forces giving advanced warning so the rockets could be all shot down. The supreme leader was last seen a week ago in a video message, but it's two weeks since he appeared to his people in the flesh. Stay up to date with the latest on Israel vs Iran with The Sun's live blog below...
The Sun
33 minutes ago
- The Sun
Trump reveals what mystery trucks at nuke site were REALLY doing before blitz… destroying claims Iran rushed uranium out
Israel didn't know if US would join Iran strikes, says Defense Minister Katz Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz admitted in an interview with Channel 12 that Israel launched its assault on Iran without knowing if the US would join in, according to The Times of Israel. 'In defense, we knew they [the US] were with us — and they did an amazing job,' Katz said, praising American support once the operation began. He confirmed the uranium stockpiles weren't directly targeted: 'The uranium itself, the material, was not a target for attack.' Katz added that Israel would have taken out Ayatollah Khamenei 'if he had been in our sights.' Defence Minister Israel Katz
Daily Mail
34 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Trump Cabinet secretary to get swanky new setup as major agency moves headquarters out of D.C.
The Trump administration is moving one federal agency out of D.C. and displacing another – with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development set to score choice new digs in the progress. Coming out on top in the situation is HUD Secretary Scott Turner, who is set to get an executive suite up on the 19th floor of his gleaming new headquarters when his current 2,700 employees make the move. But the 1,800 National Science Foundation employees who currently occupy the building are in the dark about their own prospects, according to American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403, which represents federal workers it says were blindsided by the move. 'While Secretary Turner and his staff are busy enjoying private dining and a custom gym, NSF employees are being displaced with no plan, no communication, and no respect,' the union fumed. It said the 'callous disregard for taxpayer dollars and NSF employees comes after the Administration already cut NSF's budget, staff and science grants and forced NSF employees back into the office.' The furious union local, which says it got briefed on the plan when it was suddenly announced, lists perks it said Turner is set to garner in his new space. HUD currently occupies a brutalist 1960s building near the Southeast-Southwest freeway in downtown Washington with a long list of upkeep needs. They include a 'dedicated executive suite' for the secretary, an executive dining room, reserved parking for five cars (presumably his security detail), plus 'exclusive use' of an elevator and a 'potential gym for the HUD Secretary and his family.' Also blasting the move was Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee. She slammed the administration for 'kicking dedicated scientists out of their building so HUD Secretary Turner can have a penthouse dining suite' in a blistering statement. 'For an administration so obsessed with claiming that it's cutting spending, how can Trump justify the tax-payer dollars it will take to meet Turner's ridiculous demands, like a gym for his exclusive use or parking spaces for his five cars?' she said. She also asked where the NSF staff would go and what was the plan. 'Once again, science loses, the American taxpayer loses, and our competitors, like China, win.' A HUD press release features an image of the gleaming existing NSF building, which the agency occupied a few years ago. 'The move would unlock several hundred million dollars in taxpayer savings, address serious health and safety threats, enhance the Department's work culture, and present an opportunity for greater collaboration and service to the American people,' it says. Turner talked up the move at a press conference with Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, whose state has competed with Maryland and DC over the years to serve as host to the NSF and other federal agencies. The NSF used to have offices in downtown DC before moving to Virginia after the Secret Service took over its prior office space. 'We will work with our friends at [the General Services Administration] to coordinate a staggered and thoughtful relocation process which takes into account the current team and employees of this building and the work they do on a daily basis,' Turner said. He added: 'We are all on the same team.' He also blasted the claims about a posh setup as 'ridiculous and untrue.' 'This is about the posterity and the future of HUD, not just for now, but for those that are coming behind me. My family and I were already blessed before we came so, this is about the HUD employees. This is not about me,' he said. HUD spokeswoman Kasey Lovett told the Daily Mail that contrary to 'sensationalist reporting' no one would be 'displaced' and that there would be a 'staggered and thoughtful approach.' 'There will be a secretary office – just as there is at HUD currently – and every other place of operation with executive staff. There are no plans to "build out" anything more than what is currently there,' she said. The spokeswoman said the move was done for staff safety and did not have 'anything to do with a new space or bells and whistles for the secretary,' although she did not deny that Turner would get the building features the union described. The agency release makes no mention of what would happen to the NSF employees beyond the 'staggered employee relocation plan.' It claims the move 'will save American taxpayers hundreds of millions in deferred maintenance and modernization needs.' HUD's building showed up on a list of government buildings to be disposed of – although numerous buildings fell off the initial draft. A GSA fact sheet now begins with the question: 'The first list was much longer, why is this list shorter?' It responds: 'Due to the overwhelming response that we received after publishing the first list, we are refining our process.' A federal judge has put a temporary pause on massive cuts to research funding that goes out to universities around the country. Universities have sued over Trump administration changes to 'indirect' costs that get awarded to their scientists. One plaintiff, the University of California system, estimates the change will cost it nearly $100 million a year.
