May 12, 2026 - President Donald Trump said the U.S. has “destroyed 100% of Iran's military capability” and Iran is “totally defeated.” However, Iran continues to fire drones and missiles, and some experts say this means the country is not defeated.

12 hours ago - On 27 February at 3:38 p.m. EST (11:08 p.m. IRST), Trump, traveling on Air Force One to Texas, authorized Operation Epic Fury. US missiles, drones, and Israeli fighter jets began striking Iran the next day, around 9:45 am. IRST (1:15 am. EST). The strikes took place during negotiations over ...

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.

April 10, 2026 - Caine also said that after more than 700 strikes, the military believed it has destroyed more than 95% of Iran’s naval mines. This US Navy handout photo released by US Central Command public affairs on March 8, 2026, shows an Arleigh Burke-class ...

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. ,

June 6, 2026 - US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran’s military has been “totally destroyed” and only has around 21% of its missile capacity left after US-Israeli strikes, during an interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker on Friday.

3 weeks ago - President Trump formally notified Congress that "military action" against Iran had restarted on July 7, in a message addressed to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Senate's president pro tempore. At around that time, talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed, and Mr. Trump declared the April ceasefire "over." Iranian forces have continued attacks on U.S. troops and commercial vessels following the collapse of the April ceasefire. The U.S. has also periodically struck Iran, including in two different rounds of strikes this week that drew Iranian counterattacks. The Pentagon's acknowledgment of the May 5 date raises questions about why its public affairs office found it necessary in early August to explicitly instruct senior leaders not to use the Operation Epic Fury banner when talking about ongoing military operations against Iran, an operation the military now says had ended months earlier.

June 6, 2026 - In an interview with NBC News' Meet the Press, Trump asserted that the United States had "totally destroyed" the Iranian military apparatus. He estimated that the country retains only a limited portion of its ballistic stockpile. Also read: West Asia war: 100 days on, Trump and Iran remain locked in high-stakes showdown · "I would say, percentage-wise, maybe 21, 22 per cent of their missiles...

April 1, 2026 - First, we are targeting and eliminating Iran’s ballistic missile systems to prevent them from threatening the U.S. forces, partners, and interests in the region. Second, we are destroying the Iranian navy, degrading its capacity capability and ability to conduct operations… Third, we’re ensuring Iran cannot rapidly rebuild or reconstitute its combat capability.” · White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (March 4): “At the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, launched last weekend, President Trump laid out clear objectives to the American people on what the U.S.

June 6, 2026 - The US president stated that Iran now possesses "maybe 21 or 22 per cent" of its original missile arsenal after US actions.

April 21, 2026 - In late 2024, President Trump was again elected. During the early months of the second Trump Administration, the United States initiated negotiations in an intensive effort to resolve the underlying root causes of the ongoing conflict: the longstanding threat posed by Iran to U.S. interests in the region, including its continued proxy attacks on U.S. personnel and facilities and its illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs. By June of 2025, however, it was clear that these efforts were fruitless. II. An Analysis of the U.S. Response · Over many years, the Iranian regime engaged in a clear pattern of unprovoked aggression and direct and proxy attacks against Israel and the United States, while concurrently spending billions of dollars to operationalize its promise to destroy the former and continuously calling for “death” to the latter. That conduct established the factual basis and operative context for Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S.

April 2, 2026 - Iran’s Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow ... to Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Trump in June said the sites were “completely and fully obliterated.” · The president in his address said Iran sought to rebuild at a different location ...

In fewer than 40 days, unrelenting military action by America's joint force has helped accomplish all the goals President Donald J. Trump set for Operation Epic Fury.,

March 29, 2026 - Reuters report contradicts Trump’s claims that Tehran’s arsenal has been largely wiped out Middle East crisis

May 13, 2026 - 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

May 16, 2026 - 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.