These were the updates from the Israel-Iran conflict for Sunday, June 22, 2025.
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2h ago
(13:20 GMT)
Pentagon briefing sent message of not ‘open-ended operation’
Reporting from the White House, Washington, DC, US
A very clear message from the United States: that this is not an open-ended operation, although there was the warning that while it is intentionally limited, the capabilities of united states military is not.
Therefore, in the words of chairman of the joint chief of staff during the Pentagon news conference, retaliation on America, or American assets, interests and people and allies ,as well, would be a “very poor choice”.
What is clear is this was a well-coordinated operation. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would give the Iranians a two-week window. The decision was made probably sometime later on Thursday or early on Friday – and that is when everything started in motion.
The Americans are saying this was a huge success, but as we heard from the joint chairman of the joint chief of staff, they obviously still have to get full intelligence from the site – and this will take some time. So they don’t know whether it has been a huge success. But what it does do is send a real message.
And if there was one irony throughout that 30-minute news conference, it was that several times they talked about how it was important to keep the circle of knowledge very tight.
Of course, when there was an attack in Yemen earlier this year, Pete Hegseth not only
included a journalist on the talks about what was going to happen, he also included his wife – so the idea that the security is much tighter. perhaps that really was a lesson to be learned for the defence secretary.
2h ago
(13:20 GMT)
Pentagon briefing sent message of not ‘open-ended operation’
Reporting from the White House, Washington, DC, US
A very clear message from the United States: that this is not an open-ended operation, although there was the warning that while it is intentionally limited, the capabilities of united states military is not.
Therefore, in the words of chairman of the joint chief of staff during the Pentagon news conference, retaliation on America, or American assets, interests and people and allies ,as well, would be a “very poor choice”.
What is clear is this was a well-coordinated operation. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would give the Iranians a two-week window. The decision was made probably sometime later on Thursday or early on Friday – and that is when everything started in motion.
The Americans are saying this was a huge success, but as we heard from the joint chairman of the joint chief of staff, they obviously still have to get full intelligence from the site – and this will take some time. So they don’t know whether it has been a huge success. But what it does do is send a real message.
And if there was one irony throughout that 30-minute news conference, it was that several times they talked about how it was important to keep the circle of knowledge very tight.
Of course, when there was an attack in Yemen earlier this year, Pete Hegseth not only
included a journalist on the talks about what was going to happen, he also included his wife – so the idea that the security is much tighter. perhaps that really was a lesson to be learned for the defence secretary.