In an uncompromising address at the White House, Mr Trump said Iran’s nuclear programme had been “completely and totally obliterated”. That is an overstatement: Iran has decades of accumulated expertise that is hard to eliminate.

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With his unprecedented decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites, directly joining Israel’s air attack on its regional arch-foe, U.S. President Donald Trump has done something he had long vowed to avoid - intervene militarily in a major foreign war.

Congressional leaders expressed surprise Saturday night about President Donald Trump's announcement he had ordered a U.S. attacked on three Iranian nuclear sites, with some Republicans praising the move and some Democrats questioning the president's authority.