March 17, 2026 - President Donald Trump said the U.S. “destroyed 100% of Iran's military capability.” However, Iran continues to fire drones and missiles.

3 hours ago - Late in the day on 1 April, Trump made a speech addressing the nation, in which he said that the strikes have "dramatically curtailed" Iranian missile and drone systems, and added that the attacks on Iran will escalate over the next two to three weeks to "bring them back to the Stone Ages, ...

April 8, 2026 - From the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump stated this would be a four-to-six-week military operation to dismantle the military threat posed by the radical Islamic Iranian regime.

2 weeks ago - Iran has enough missile capability to continue fighting should Donald Trump choose to resume the war, US and Nato intelligence has assessed – and experts say it has several more cards up its sleeve. The US president has repeatedly claimed that American forces have comprehensively destroyed Iran’s military, including its missile capabilities and navy, during six weeks of conflict before a ceasefire was agreed.

April 9, 2026 - When Trump declared April 7 that the U.S. would suspend bombing Iran for two weeks to allow for negotiations, he said the U.S. had "already met and exceeded all military objectives." "Total and complete victory. 100%. No question about it," Trump told Agence France-Presse. Hegseth was similarly triumphant. "Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield, a capital-V military victory," he said during an April 8 Pentagon press conference.

3 weeks ago - Trump, in an interview released ... said Iran had been defeated militarily. Yet when asked if it was accurate to say that combat operations were “over and done,” he refuted that assessment. “No, I didn’t say that,” Mr. Trump said, adding that Iran was “defeated, but that doesn’t mean they are done.” · Mr. Trump estimated that about 70 percent of the United ...

April 1, 2026 - From day one, the objectives have been clear and unwavering: obliterate Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and production capability, annihilate its navy, sever its support for terrorist proxies, and ensure the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism never acquires a nuclear weapon. Since the launch of Operation Epic Fury, the Trump Administration has repeatedly and unambiguously reaffirmed these core objectives: President Trump (March 2): “Our objectives are clear. First, we’re destroying Iran’s missile capabilities…

March 1, 2026 - In a bold and necessary exercise ... to eliminate the imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime, destroy its ballistic missile arsenal, degrade its proxy terror networks, and cripple its naval forces....

March 26, 2026 - Speaking from the White House podium, ... According to Leavitt, U.S. operations have destroyed more than 9,000 Iranian targets, cutting ballistic‑missile and drone launches by roughly 90 percent....

1 week ago - In mid-February, two weeks before the war, Trump told reporters that regime change in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen.” That notion is now moot. On the first day of the war, Israeli air strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had led the country for nearly forty years, and severely injured his son Mojtaba, the new Supreme Leader, who has not been seen in public since then. In March, Trump claimed that “one regime was decimated, destroyed. They’re all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime, we’re dealing with different people than anybody’s dealt with before. It’s a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change.” · The current government in Tehran is, however, even more hard-line than the last, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps holding outsized influence, including in the negotiations, Leaf said.

3 weeks ago - Sources tell The Independent that at least 60 per cent of Iran’s missiles have survived the Israeli-US attacks while its nuclear facilities remain largely undamaged amid delusion in the White House, reports world affairs editor Sam Kiley

April 1, 2026 - During an address from the White House, President Donald J. Trump told Americans that the U.S. military, as part of Operation Epic Fury, was nearing completion of operational objectives in Iran. ,

April 4, 2026 - Trump and Hegseth’s claims to have uncontested control of Iran’s airspace have been undermined by the apparent shooting down of two U.S. warplanes in one day.

1 month ago - More senior figures across the regime were killed. Trump began to claim that the war was “already won” and “very complete”. Some leading Republicans, such as Senator Josh Hawley, urged him to declare victory.

2 days ago - Trump gave a short televised address at 10 p.m. EDT on June 21, in which he said, "Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated". During his statement, which was about four minutes long, he further called the strikes a "spectacular military success", ...

March 9, 2026 - Days later, the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. In his Feb. 28 remarks, Trump repeated his claim that those military strikes had “obliterated the regime’s nuclear program” at those sites. (As we’ve written, experts and a classified U.S. intelligence report said the sites were damaged and the enrichment program set back — but the sites and nuclear capabilities weren’t completely destroyed.)