US briefing on strikes against Iran and impact on proxy groups

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The White House has released a video of Pete Hegseth the US defence secretary, from his media briefing at the Pentagon yesterday:

The mission is laser focused:
Obliterate Iran's missiles and drones and facilities that produce them
Annihilate it's Navy and critical security infrastructure
And sever their pathway to nuclear weapons.
Iran will never possess a nuclear bomb.

At the same briefing he also said that "Iranian proxy groups like Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas are also broken, ineffective, or on the sidelines now".

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4429836/hegseth-says-us-attacks-intensify-under-epic-fury-while-iranian-responses-slow/

In a war the first one to die is the truth.

Very profound.

Who do you believe @Bananatruck?

US strikes Iran’s Natanz nuclear site with bunker-buster bombs

US warplanes used bunker-buster bombs to attack an underground Iranian nuclear facility on Saturday.

Iran’s atomic agency said the raid targeted the Natanz enrichment complex, a fortified uranium enrichment site buried up to 100 metres deep under the earth.

Donald Trump, the US president, has repeatedly insisted one of the key US objectives of the war was to destroy Iran’s capability to make nuclear weapons.

Bunker-buster bombs are designed to penetrate fortified positions or hit targets buried deep underground. Israeli media reported they were used in the US strike.

The Iranian atomic agency said no radioactive material leaked and there was no danger to residents living nearby, while claiming the incident violated international law.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/21/us-strikes-irans-natanz-nuclear-site-bunker-buster-bombs/