Israel-Iran live: ‘Bullseye!!!’ Trump claims Iran strikes caused ‘monumental damage’

Israeli strikes on Iran’s Yazd province killed ten Revolutionary Guards yesterday, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.

The Israeli Defence Forces said fighter jets struck a strategic missile command centre, where long-range missiles were stored.

Approximately 60 missiles have been launched from this command centre toward Israel, it said.

The US strikes came after a week of open conflict between Israel and Iran, sparked by Israel’s sudden barrage of attacks against Iran’s nuclear and military structure.

Here we give you a recap of what has happened so far.

Israel attacks: Israel attacked Iran on 13 June, striking Iranian military and nuclear sites and killing several top military officials and nuclear scientists.

Why? Israeli leaders argued Iran could quickly assemble a nuclear weapon, making it an imminent threat, while US intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency assessed Tehran was not actively pursuing a bomb.

Iran retaliates: Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at Israel, some of which penetrated the country’s vaunted Iron Dome air defence system.

More strikes and counter-strikes: Israeli strikes on Iran killed at least 950 people, including 380 civilians, and wounded 3,450 others, according to the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists. Israel said Iranian attacks killed 24 people and wounded hundreds.

US joins conflict: Bombers carried out “massive precision strikes” on Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites on Saturday night, Trump said. American bunker-buster bombs were the only munitions that could have hit Fordow, buried beneath a mountain.

Aftermath: Defence secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes were not aimed at toppling the Iranian government, but Donald Trump suggested regime change would be a positive outcome. For its part, Iran has threatened the US with a “decisive response”.

Iran has executed a man convicted of collaborating with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, according to reports.

Mohammadamin Shayesteh was arrested in late 2023, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

He was described by Tasnim as “the head of a cyber-team affiliated with Mossad.”

An Iranian armed forces commander has threatened the US with a “decisive response”, according to reports.

“Every time the Americans committed crimes, they received a decisive response, and it will be the same this time too,” General Hatami said, in comments reported by the state-run Fars News Agency.

If you’re just joining US, Donald Trump has published a series of posts on his social media site, Truth Social, about the strikes on Iran overnight.

Here are the key takeaways…

• “Monumental damage” was done to all nuclear sites in Iran, he said;
• The president said the most damage at Fordow took place “far below ground level”, exclaiming “bullseye!!!”;
• The B-2 bomber pilots landed back in Missouri;
• Trump suggested regime change in Iran: “If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!”

Iran warned Donald Trump it would activate sleeper-cell attacks inside the US if it were attacked in a message sent in the day’s before the American strikes, sources say.

The communique got to Trump through an intermediary at the G7 summit in Canada last week, which Trump left early, two US officials and a person with knowledge of the threat told our US partner network NBC News.

His administration, as well as law enforcement agencies in key cities, are on high alert for any potential retaliation inside the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security warned yesterday that the “Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States”.

There could be an increased possibility of terrorist attacks in the US “if Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the homeland”.

Iran could launch cyberattacks on US networks and target US government officials.

Vice President JD Vance told NBC News the administration is looking at the possibility of a homeland attack “very closely”.

North Korea has condemned the US strike as a grave violation of Iran’s security interests and territorial rights, state media reports.

Its foreign ministry said the US and Israel are the culprits of tensions in the Middle East born out of Israel’s “ceaseless war moves and territorial expansion”, accepted and encouraged by the West.

“[North Korea] strongly denounces the attack on Iran by the US which… violently trampled down the territorial integrity and security interests of a sovereign state,” KCNA news agency cited a spokesperson as saying.

“The just international community should raise the voice of unanimous censure and rejection against the US and Israel’s confrontational acts.”

Iran and North Korea have maintained friendly ties and have been suspected for decades of military cooperation, including in developing ballistic missiles.

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “interesting intel” on the location of Iran’s 60% enriched uranium.

A senior Iranian source told the Reuters news agency today that most of the highly enriched uranium at the Fordow nuclear plant was moved before the US attacked it yesterday.

Uranium needs to be enriched to 90% to be used in a nuclear weapon. The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, says Iran has around 400kg of 60% enriched uranium.  Asked about the uranium’s whereabouts, Netanyahu said: “We’ve been following that very closely. I can tell you that it’s an important component of a nuclear programme. “It’s not the sole component. It’s not a sufficient component. But it is an important component and we have interesting intel on that, which you will excuse me if I don’t share with you.”

More details have emerged throughout the weekend about how the US pulled off its strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Here, security and defence editor Deborah Haynes explains how America pulled off Operation ‘Midnight Hammer’.