Israel-Iran conflict Live Updates: Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions ‘Obliterated’ After Operation 'Midnight Hammer', Says Pentagon

Israel-Iran Live Updates: 2 dozen Tomahawk missiles launched at Iranian nuke sites, says Dan Caine, United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 

Israel-Iran Live Updates Live: It's a bad idea for Iran to attack the USA, says Pete Hegseth during press brief.

Israel-Iran Live Updates: President Donald Trump is very clear that Iran can not be nuclear armed power, says Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense.

Israel-Iran Live Updates: Highly classified operation ‘Midnight Hammer’ designed to degrade Iran's nuke programme, says US

US Strikes Iran Live Update: In a high-stakes Pentagon briefing, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated”.

Israel-Iran Live Updates: Iran was given 60 days of time for peace deal. Our focus was Iran's nuclear sites: Pete Hegseth

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Kremlin Spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday, “There are no such plans,” when asked about the possibility of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, dialing his US counterpart, Donald Trump after the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities. 
 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Condemning the US strikes for escalating tensions in the Middle East, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, “China calls on all parties to the conflict, especially Israel, to cease fire as soon as possible.”

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: According to state television, the head of Iran's Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, said, “Fortunately, we did not have any martyrs in last night's events of the US aggression against Iran's nuclear facilities."
 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, on Sunday condemned the US strikes on three Iranian nuclear strikes saying, “This aggression showed that the United States is the primary instigator of the Zionist regime’s hostile actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although they initially tried to deny their role, after our armed forces’ decisive and deterrent response and the Zionist regime’s clear incapacity, they were inevitably forced to enter the field themselves."

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: According to reports, three semiofficial Iranian media outlets have reported explosions on Sunday afternoon, in the Iranian port city of Bushehr. Iranian authorities have not reported any problem at the plant in city that is home to Iran's only nuclear power plant, which is run with Russian assistance.

Meanwhile explosions also occurred at Yazd, in central Iran, with some suspecting it came from Israeli airstrikes targeting a power plant and a military garrison.

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Warning of the potential "radiological" consequences of US' strikes on Iran, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that US actions were "a dangerous escalation … fraught with further undermining of regional and global security.”

The ministry also condemned US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities calling them "a gross violation of international law, the U.N. Charter, and U.N. Security Council resolutions.”

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: According to Israeli military spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, Israel is still assessing the damage US strikes caused on Iran's nuclear sites. Further, responding to a question asking whether enriched material had been removed from the Fordow site before the U.S. strike, Defrin said that it was “too early” to know and that the strikes were carried out in coordination with the Israeli military.

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: In a televised press conference Israeli army's spokesperson, Effie Defrin, said to the reporters, “We have other goals and we will continue to act until we attain them.” 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: The French foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, said in a post on X that France was neither involved in the US strikes carried out against Iran's nuclear facilities, nor was engaged in the planning.

"It urges the parties to show restraint in order to avoid any escalation that could lead to an extension of the conflict,” wrote Barrot on X.

Calling for a lasting resolution of the issue, Barrot also reiterated France’s “very firm opposition to Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.” 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: After the US airstrikes on Iran's key nuclear facilities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi phoned Iran's President, Masoud Pezeshkian, to discuss the current situation.

Expressing "deep concern" over the recent escalations, PM Modi, during his conversation with President Pezeshkian, reiterated India's call for immediate de-escalation, dialogue, and diplomacy to restore regional peace, security, and stability. 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Responding to a question from a Russian media outlet at the Istanbul press conference on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said that he’ll travel to Moscow later on Sunday to meet with President Vladimir Putin, after the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear sites.

“We enjoy a strategic partnership and we always consult with each other and coordinate our positions,” said Araghchi referring to Russia.

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in a statement given to the media that there is “no red line” that the US has not crossed. 

“And the last one and the most dangerous one was what happened only last night when they crossed a very big red line by attacking nuclear facilities only,” added Araghchi. 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Addressing journalists in Istanbul on Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said that while the “door to diplomacy” should always be open, “this is not the case right now." The statement was given in the wake of the overnight strikes carried out by the US on Iran's key nuclear infrastructure. 
 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Calling out the Trump administration for their airstrike on Iran's nuclear sites, Iran's Foreign Minister labeled US actions as "acts of aggression."  

"The warmongering, a lawless administration in Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far reaching implications of its act of aggression,” said Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in a news briefing at a conference in Turkey. 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Expressing concern over the escalating tensions in the Middle East, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, warned that the rising violence risks “engulfing the region — and the world — in a war with irreversible consequences.”

“The world cannot absorb limitless war. Upholding international humanitarian law is not a choice — it is an obligation," added Spoljaric. 
 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Satellite images taken on Sunday when analyzed by AP, showed damage to the entryways to Iran's underground nuclear site at Fordow after US airstrikes struck the location. Images also show destruction at the very mountain Fordow is under. Though Iran is yet to offer a damage assessment of the sites, images uncovered that parts of the brown mountain had turned gray. 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: Hinting at the reduced possibility of diplomacy after US' airstrike within Iran's territory, the Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister posted on X, “Last week, we were in negotiations with the US when Israel decided to blow up that diplomacy. This week, we held talks with the E3/EU when the US decided to blow up that diplomacy.” 

US Strikes Iran Live Updates: In statement given to a media outlet Britain's Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Reynolds said that though the timing was not known, Britain, as a key ally, was notified of US' plan of striking Iran's nuclear sites.

“Whilst the British government, the U.K., has not been involved in these attacks, we have been making extensive preparations for all eventualities,” said Reynolds, as per AP.