The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it.

As we await an official response from Iran or Israel on Trump's claim of a ceasefire, US Vice-President JD Vance has been speaking to Fox News in the past hour, and boasting that Iran will not be able to build nuclear weapons as a result of the US air strikes.