Pentagon’s detailed tactics in Iran strikes downplays ‘obliterated’ claim

Pentagon leaders have laid out new details about military tactics and explosives to bolster their argument that U.S. attacks had destroyed key Iranian nuclear facilities. At a briefing, little more emerged on how far back the bombing had set Tehran’s atomic program. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Joint Chiefs chairman tried to shift the debate from whether the nuclear targets were “obliterated” as U.S. President Donald Trump had said.