Israeli military officials, speaking anonymously, told The New York Times and The Washington Post that they considered the underground nuclear site at Fordo — the key U.S. target because it required bunker-busting bombs only the U.S. could deliver — to be "severely damaged" but not "completely destroyed."

Donald Trump took the biggest gamble of his combined four and a half years in the White House on Saturday night in striking Iran and joining Israel’s war against the Islamic republic. Trump’s primary wager is that Iran and its proxies in the Middle East have been so weakened that the US president can cast his intervention as both limited and successful.