The world braced Sunday for possible retaliation from Tehran as Iran warned of "everlasting consequences" after the U.S. bombed three major nuclear sites a day earlier.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at a Pentagon briefing Sunday morning, said Iran's nuclear ambitions "have been obliterated."
"The order we received from our commander in chief was focused, it was powerful, and it was clear. We devastated the Iranian nuclear program," Hegseth said
President Donald Trump, in a live address at the White House on Saturday, said more strikes could come. “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” he said. “If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.”
In a weekly prayer on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church's first pope from the United States, called for diplomacy and peace efforts, not "violence and bloody conflicts," shortly after the U.S.' military action against Iran.
