Overview
- Operation Midnight Hammer deployed more than a dozen 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs and over two dozen Tomahawk missiles against Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, Pentagon officials said.
- Satellite images released by Maxar show multiple craters at Fordow but the International Atomic Energy Agency reports no off-site radiation increase and says underground damage remains unclear.
- Iran’s parliament approved a measure to consider closing the Strait of Hormuz and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said there will be no return to diplomacy until Tehran retaliates.
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine confirmed heightened force protection for U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, and the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning of a heightened threat environment domestically.
- World leaders, including those from the U.N., the U.K., France and Germany, have called for restraint and urged a return to diplomatic talks to avert wider regional instability.