Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday said the US had to enter the war to save Israel, which almost collapsed amid Iranian strikes.

Iran's Khamenei hails 'victory' in his first speech on Iran state TV since Israel ceasefire

After waves of Israeli attacks on nuclear and military sites and retaliatory missile fire from Iran since June 13, the United States bombed three key Iranian atomic facilities at the weekend.

"This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years," Ratcliffe said in a statement.

Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints

Trump said his decision to unleash huge bunker-busting bombs in Sunday's attack had devastated Iran's nuclear program and called the outcome "a victory for everybody".

Iran had closed its skies since June 13 after Israel launched a major bombing campaign

President Donald Trump yesterday insisted that US strikes led to the “total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, contrary to a leaked US intelligence report that assessed those did not destroy the core components of the programme and likely only set it back by months. 

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would hold nuclear talks with Iran next week

The US strikes on Sunday hit key sites of Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz

Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire on Tuesday ending 12 days of tit-for-tat strikes between the longtime foes.

Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was speaking to reporters at an Austrian cabinet meeting in Vienna.

"It was very severe. There was obliteration," he added.

Rubio dismissed the media reports as "false" and said they did not capture the full picture, according to Politico.

The move follows an air war with Israel in which Iran's longtime enemy said it wanted to prevent Tehran developing a nuclear weapon.

A survey released last week said 83% of Jewish Israelis supported the assault on Iran and pollsters said they expected Netanyahu's Likud party,

"We have achieved a historic victory," Netanyahu said in a televised address to the nation after the start of a ceasefire agreed to by both countries.

Trump said over the weekend that the US deployment of 30,000-pound bombs had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

"THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!" the president posted on Truth Social.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country would continue to "assert its legitimate rights" to the peaceful use of atomic power