Overview

• Pentagon showcased test videos of GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators to illustrate their deep-penetration strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
• Gen. Dan Caine outlined a 15-year Defense Threat Reduction Agency effort and confirmed that all bunker-busters hit targeted vent shafts, delivering blast, fragmentation and overpressure effects.
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump denounced a leaked low-confidence DIA assessment and accused media outlets of undermining the strikes’ success.
• Iran’s leadership disputed the extent of the damage, approved legislation to suspend IAEA cooperation and retaliated by firing ballistic missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
• IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called for immediate inspections to verify damage levels and trace any movement of nuclear materials at Iran’s facilities.