Whatever the scale of the damage to Tehran’s facilities, the US strikes are likely to have emboldened Iranian nuclear hardliners

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President claims target sites were ‘completely and totally obliterated’

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Donald Trump reacted furiously to leaked assessments that challenged claims sites were ‘totally obliterated’

Whatever the scale of the damage to Tehran’s facilities, the US strikes are likely to have emboldened Iranian nuclear hardliners

Iran refuses to dismantle its nuclear programme and it’s still impossible to verify the damage done by air strikes.

‘Obliterated,’ declares Trump, ‘Nothing significant,’ says Khamenei. And was the uranium spirited away first? Questions need answering