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26 Jun 2025 15:32

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, shows a test demonstration of the GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) 30,000lb “Bunker Buster” Bomb during today’s press conference at the Pentagon.

Gen. Caine stated that 15 years went into working on the bombing plan for the Fordow Nuclear Facility in Iran, adding that PhDs working on classified GBU-57 “Bunker Bursting” Bomb Program were the “biggest users of supercomputers” in the United States. Before concluding with a statement clarifying that the GBU-57s dropped from B-2s on Fordow “functioned as designed” by the U.S. Air Force.

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26 Jun 2025 01:52

In a post earlier on Truth Social, U.S. President Trump called for the renewed corruption trial against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be dropped, stating, “Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land — Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON!”

President Trump continues by referring to the trail against Netanyahu as a “WITCH HUNT” against a man “who has given so much,” adding that, “He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel.” Trump then ends the post by stating that the trail against Netanyahu should be “CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY” or that he should be pardoned, before ending with, “It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. THIS TRAVESTY OF “JUSTICE” CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!”

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26 Jun 2025 00:05

Chief of General Staff for the Israel Defense Force, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, said during a statement earlier today that following initial assessments, “damage to the [Iranian] nuclear program is not a localized blow, but a systemic one.” Adding that, “The accumulated achievement allows us to determine that the Iranian nuclear program suffered severe, broad, and deep damage and was pushed back by years — We will not allow Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction.”

Additionally, Zamir confirmed for the first time that Israeli Commando and Special Forces Units were on the ground in Iran during the twelve-day conflict, with him stating, “We caused significant damage to [Iran's] missile capabilities, we removed hundreds of launchers, and we caused a significant delay with their force build-up plans. In addition, we managed to achieve intelligence, technological, and aerial superiority. We reached a level of operational freedom in the skies of Iran and in every location we chose to act in.” “These forces operated covertly deep in enemy territory and carried out operations that granted us operational freedom of action,” Zamir said.

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25 Jun 2025 16:52

U.S. President Trump announces that the United States will meet next week with Iran, but adds that he doesn’t think there needs to be further negotiations or a new nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran, because the the Iranian nuclear program was “destroyed” in this past weekend’s strikes by the U.S. Air Force and that there will be never be another attempt to build nuclear weapons again by Iran.

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25 Jun 2025 15:57

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that the Pentagon has launched an investigation, alongside the FBI, into leaks surrounding a classified report on the effectiveness of last weekend’s U.S. strikes against Iran, completed by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and based on a battle damage assessment done by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). Information from this report is believed to have been provided to several media outlets, including CNN, FOX, NBC, and the New York Times, who all published articles yesterday containing references to the classified report published by the DIA.

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25 Jun 2025 15:20

A short while ago, the Israeli Air Force downed a drone believed to have been launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen at Israel.

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25 Jun 2025 14:58

All 32 members of NATO have approved a five-point declaration presented during today’s summit at The Hague, committing to investing 5% of their GDP towards defence and security-related spending by 2035, with all members required to submit “annual plans” proving “a credible, incremental path to reach this goal,” with a review of progress made in 2029.

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25 Jun 2025 08:07

Following a number of articles released Tuesday by CNN, FOX, NBC, and several other media outlets, referencing an initial classified assessment by the Pentagon that suggests the Iranian nuclear program remains largely intact and has only been set back a few months as a result of Saturday’s strikes by the U.S. Air Force. President Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social to defend the bombing mission, accusing the media outlets of having “TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY.” Adding that, “THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!”

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25 Jun 2025 07:16

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said earlier today during an interview with Fox News, that the IAEA currently does not know the location of roughly 900lbs of highly-enriched uranium in Iran. According to Grossi, Iranian officials told the agency they removed the uranium from previously monitored storage locations for “protective measures” ahead of strikes Saturday by the U.S. Air Force against the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan Nuclear Facilities in Central Iran.

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25 Jun 2025 05:47

The Islamic Republic today executed three men at the infamous Urmia Central Prison in Northwestern Iran, after accusing them of working for Israel’s Mossad. The three men, Edris Aali, Azad Shojaei, and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul were executed on the official charges of “Spreading Corruption on Earth and enmity against God, through collaboration with hostile foreign governments in the Zionist regime's interest,” with officials claiming that they smuggled weapons and equipment into Iran that was used by Mossad for the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s chief nuclear scientist, who was killed in 2020.

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25 Jun 2025 02:13

In a post earlier on Truth Social, U.S. President Trump quoted a statement made to CNN today by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussing the effectiveness of past weekend’s strikes against three nuclear facilities in Iran, with Hegseth stating: “Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons. Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.”

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24 Jun 2025 23:52

Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who was rumored but never confirmed to have been eliminated during the initial strikes against Iran by Israel on June 13, appears to have indeed survived, being seen attending “victory” celebrations today in Iranian capital of Tehran.

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21 Jun 2025 20:57

Initial reports of an airstrike on a military pier at the Port of Bandar Abbas in Southern Iran, on the coast of the Strait of Hormuz, with several sources indicating that a warship of the the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) is currently burning following a strike by the Israeli Air Force.

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21 Jun 2025 20:20

The Israeli Air Force has released footage showing strikes against three additional F-14 “Tomcats” belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) at an airbase in Central Iran.

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21 Jun 2025 19:45

According to officials who spoke with Reuters, the B-2A “Spirit” Long-Range Stealth Bombers being deployed to Guam in the Western Pacific have been given no further orders yet to suggest imminent strikes against Iran.

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26 Jun 2025 14:43

During this morning’s press conference at the Pentagon, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, stated that two MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile Batteries manned by 44 U.S. Army Soldiers defended Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar during Monday’s ballistic missile attack against the base by Iran, with assistance from the Qatar Armed Forces. Adding that it is believed to have been the largest Patriot engagement in history.

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26 Jun 2025 00:59

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced earlier via a post on Truth Social that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will hold his second ever press conference at the Pentagon tomorrow at 8:00am ET, alongside “Military Representatives” likely once again including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, to discuss this past weekend’s strikes against nuclear facilities inside Iran.

President Trump then proceeds to claim that the purpose of the press conference is to, “fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots.” Adding that, “These Patriots were very upset! After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times. They felt terribly!”

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25 Jun 2025 17:10

Asked earlier about NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte calling him “daddy” in reference to the conflict between Iran and Israel and whether he sees his NATO Allies as his “children,” U.S. President Trump responded with: “He likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn’t, I’ll let you know, I’ll come back, and I’ll hit him hard. He did it very affectionately, “Daddy, you’re my daddy.”

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25 Jun 2025 16:34

Speaking earlier at the NATO Summit in The Hague, U.S. President Trump revealed that the 7 B-2A Spirit Long-Range Stealth Bombers that participated in Operation “MIDNIGHT HAMMER” this past weekend, were escorted by F-22 Raptors and F-35A Lightning IIs, with support from 52 aerial-refueling tankers both before and after bombing the nuclear sites in Iran.

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25 Jun 2025 15:32

Multiple U.S. Air Force KC-135 and KC-46 Aerial-Refueling Tankers are currently heading towards the Middle East, with a number currently orbiting just outside of Egyptian Airspace, possibly waiting to ferry fighters back to bases in Europe and the United States or ferrying aircraft back that were evacuated due to the missile threat posed by Iran.

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25 Jun 2025 15:06

The White House has just published a not-previously-seen statement from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, stating that they assess this past weekend’s strike on the Fordow Nuclear Facility in Central Iran by the U.S. Air Force “destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.” Adding that combined with strikes from Israel, the U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities “has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.”

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25 Jun 2025 09:10

The Iranian Parliament has officially passed a bill to suspend all further cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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25 Jun 2025 07:55

A rare sight tonight, as one of only two of the U.S. Air Force’s TC-135W “Stratolifters” has crossed the Atlantic bound for Europe. The TC-135Ws, both of which are attached to the 55th Wing out of Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, are used as a platform to train crews for the RC-135W “Rivet Joint” Signal-Intelligence Aircraft, with some training capabilities also for the RC-135U “Combat Sent” Electronic-Surveillance Aircraft.

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25 Jun 2025 06:57

The Israel Defense Force announced this morning the death of seven soldiers serving with the 605th “HaMahatz” Combat Engineering Battalion, under the 188th Armored Brigade, who were killed yesterday in the Southern Gaza Strip, after their “Puma” Heavily-Armored Combat Engineering Vehicle struck an improvised-explosive device (IED) near Khan Yunis. The blast is reported to have started a fire inside the CEV, with all seven of the soldiers being killed in the blaze, while the CEV was later removed from Gaza. So far, the IDF has only released the names of six of the seven soldiers, with them being identified as:

-Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, aged 21, from Kfar Yona.

-Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, aged 20, from Rehovot.

-Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, aged 20, from Elyakhin.

-Sgt. Ronen Shapiro, aged 19, from Mazkeret Batya.

-Sgt. Shahar Manoav, aged 21, from Ashkelon.

- Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, aged 20, from Eshhar.

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25 Jun 2025 04:41

New satellite imagery from June 24 of the Natanz Nuclear Site in Central Iran appears to show efforts underway to potentially repair the facility, with two holes seen on June 22 after the strikes by the U.S. Air Force, believed to have been created by GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) 30,000lb “Bunker Buster” Bombs, dropped where a section of the underground uranium enrichment complex was believed to have been, having now been covered by dirt. Additionally, it appears that several paths have been cleared above the complex by heavy machinery, while a few temporary structures or tents have been erected at one of the impact sites caused by the GBU-57s.

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25 Jun 2025 01:20

This past weekend’s strikes by the U.S. Air Force targeting three nuclear facilities in Iran did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an initial report completed recently by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) based on a battle damage assessment done by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). 

According to the classified report, of which details was revealed recently to CNN, Fox, and several other media outlets, Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium was not destroyed in the strike on the Fordow Nuclear Facility in Central Iran, only buried, and that the centrifuges used for enrichment are believed to be largely “intact.” Additionally, an unknown amount of enriched uranium is believed to have been removed from Fordow and transferred by Iran to a “secret facility” prior to the strikes on Saturday.

This report and other assessments appear to contradict statements made by U.S. President Trump as well as other senior officials, who have acknowledged the existence of the report, but continue to claim that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” the three Iranian nuclear facilities and Iran’s future nuclear ambitions, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt telling CNN: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, would not echo Trump’s claims that the Iranian program had been “obliterated” with him adding: “I’ve been briefed on this plan in the past, and it was never meant to completely destroy the nuclear facilities, but rather cause significant damage. But it was always known to be a temporary setback.” Early on Tuesday, classified briefings for both the House and Senate regarding the operation were canceled, with the House briefing said to have been indefinitely-postponed while the Senate briefing was reportedly moved to Thursday.

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21 Jun 2025 21:43

The Israel Defense Force has announced that that fighter jets of the Air Force are currently carrying out strikes on drone storage warehouses and other weapons facilities in Southern Iran, in and around the city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz.

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21 Jun 2025 20:35

Germany has now joined the ever growing list of countries that have closed their Embassy and withdrawn all staff from the Iranian capital of Tehran, amidst the ongoing war between Iran and Israel.

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21 Jun 2025 20:07

Following several reported meetings and conversations this week between U.S. President Trump and his First-Term Senior Councilor and Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon, with sources suggesting that Bannon has had significant input on Trump’s recent decisions regarding Iran. Bannon said earlier on his program, “I’m just reporting what I’m hearing from pretty good sources—the party is on. So another big weekend.”

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21 Jun 2025 19:03

U.S. defense officials have now confirmed to NBC News and Reuters that several B-2A “Spirit” Long-Range Stealth Bombers took-off last night from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, and are heading for Guam in the Western Pacific.