Current time inJerusalem9:59 a.m. June 25Tehran10:29 a.m. June 25LiveUpdated June 25, 2025, 2:53 a.m. ETPresident Trump urged both sides to respect the truce, as the leak of a U.S. intelligence report put into question if American strikes had significantly set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions.TehranDemonstrators gathered in the capital of Iran in a display of support for the country’s military on the first day of a cease-fire. Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesPresident Trump lashed out at both Israel and Iran on Tuesday.Beersheba, IsraelEmergency workers at a damaged residential site after an Iranian missile attack.Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesBeersheba, IsraelA man cleaning up broken glass on Tuesday.Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesTehranIsrael launched intense strikes on the Iranian capital early Tuesday, just ahead of the cease-fire. Associated PressTehranThe Iranian capital hours after the cease-fire announcement.Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesJerusalemSmoke trails testified to efforts to intercept Iranian missiles.Associated PressBeersheba, IsraelA damaged residential site.Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesTehranThe Iranian capital on Tuesday morning. Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesRishpon, IsraelPeople waiting outside a bomb shelter on Tuesday. Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times PinnedUpdated June 25, 2025, 2:53 a.m. ETThe cease-fire deal that ended the fiercest and longest war between Israel and Iran was holding on Wednesday morning, more than 24 hours after President Trump declared that it was in effect.Israel and Iran have both declared victory in the war, which began on June 13 with Israel’s sweeping airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites and its military leadership. Both countries have taken steps signaling that they expect the truce to hold, after a 12-day confrontation that saw intense Israeli airstrikes, waves of Iranian ballistic missiles and a U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites.Israel was expected to fully reopen Ben Gurion Airport, the busiest in the country, on Wednesday. Around 12,000 people were expected to travel through the airport today, Israel’s civil aviation authority said. The Israeli authorities have also lifted the emergency restrictions that kept schools and workplaces closed since the beginning of the war. And the Israeli military’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, said it would shift its attention back to its ongoing campaign against Hamas in Gaza.In Tehran, Iran’s capital, supporters of the government held a victory rally on Tuesday. In a televised address, President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran praised his compatriots for their resilience. He also indicated in a call with the leader of the United Arab Emirates that Iran was ready to resume international talks about Iran’s nuclear program, whose destruction was the primary stated aim of the Israeli campaign.The first day of the truce was far from smooth, though. The Israeli military said it had detected Iranian missile launches after the cease-fire had come into force, vowing a forceful response. Iran denied firing any missiles at Israel. Mr. Trump appeared visibly frustrated, scolding both countries in remarks to the media that included an expletive, and warning Israel against any further airstrikes.With the end of the conflict have come questions about its success. Mr. Trump said American stealth bombers had “obliterated” Iranian nuclear sites, including Fordo, which is built deep underground. Eager for a victory lap as he flew to the Netherlands for a NATO summit on Wednesday, the president rebuked the media for reporting on a classified preliminary assessment by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, which said that Iran’s ability to build a nuclear bomb has been delayed by only a few months.Here’s what else to know:Congress reacts: The Trump administration on Tuesday postponed classified briefings for Congress on the U.S. strikes against Iran, fueling outrage among Democrats who were angered that he had not notified Congress within 48 hours of the military action, as required by the War Powers Resolution. Read more >Nuclear ambitions: Mr. Trump’s decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities is stirring fear that it will lead Iran and other countries to conclude that a nuclear arsenal is the only way to protect themselves. Read more >June 25, 2025, 1:22 a.m. ETThe Israeli military said seven soldiers were killed in southern Gaza on Tuesday. It was the highest death toll for the Israeli military in Gaza in a single incident since a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed in March.June 24, 2025, 9:02 p.m. ETEphrat LivniInternational breaking news reporterThe world’s largest emerging markets — China, Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa — condemned the attacks on Iran, without naming Israel and the United States. The group known, as the Brics nations, made no mention of the cease-fire, but called for a peaceful resolution and expressed “serious concern” about attacks on “peaceful” nuclear facilities. Iran and five other nations joined as members recently.June 24, 2025, 4:02 p.m. ETSenator Chuck Schumer criticized the delay of a White House briefing.Credit...Eric Lee for The New York TimesThe Trump administration on Tuesday postponed classified briefings for members of Congress on the recent U.S. strikes against Iran, fueling outrage among Democrats that President Trump has yet to share key details of the operation with the legislative branch.Lawmakers in both the House and Senate had been told there would be closed-door information sessions for them on Tuesday, in the aftermath of the strikes carried out against three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend and the Iranian retaliatory strikes on Monday on an American military base in Qatar.The briefings were to have included top White House and intelligence officials, including Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence; John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director; and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.The Senate briefing has been rescheduled for Thursday, according to one person familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on it. Speaker Mike Johnson said the House briefing had been moved to Friday.The delay came as a preliminary classified U.S. report suggested that the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites did less damage than the “obliteration” that Mr. Trump has claimed, sealing off the entrances to two of the facilities but not collapsing their underground buildings, according to officials familiar with the findings.It also followed a newly reached cease-fire brokered by Mr. Trump between Iran and Israel, which he announced before he and senior national security officials left Washington early Tuesday for the annual NATO summit in the Netherlands.Several senior Democrats have pushed the administration to fulfill its legal obligations under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of military action and to provide a classified briefing. On Monday evening, Mr. Trump sent a short memo to lawmakers asserting that the strikes had been carried out under his constitutional authority “to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad as well as in furtherance of United States national security and foreign policy interests.”The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, sharply criticized the delay.“This last-minute postponement of our briefing is outrageous, it’s evasive, it’s derelict,” he said at a news conference on Tuesday. “There is a legal obligation for the administration to inform Congress about precisely what is happening.”Mr. Johnson, who has been quick to cede congressional power since Mr. Trump took office, said he had no problem with the delay. The “tentative plan,” he said, was for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, who is serving as both secretary of state and the national security adviser, to brief lawmakers as soon as they were available.“The White House and the executive branch, and both of those secretaries I named, have utmost respect for our Article One authority and our chambers here, and they want the House and Senate to have all the information, and so they’re going to deliver it as soon as possible,” Mr. Johnson told reporters, referring to the part of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to declare war. “And I think that’s satisfactory to me, and it should be to all my colleagues.”The classified briefing is seen by some lawmakers as central to the debate on Capitol Hill over Congress’s role in authorizing offensive military action. While most Republicans have backed the strikes and deferred to Mr. Trump’s judgment, consistent with their posture toward the president since his return to office in January, many Democrats have argued that deploying multiple B-2 bombers with 30,000-pound bombs to Iran without consulting Congress is a violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers.Before the president’s memo was sent, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, described the strikes as “offensive,” apparently working to pre-empt an argument from the White House that the strike had been a matter of self-defense.“The use of military force which is offensive in nature must be approved by the House and the Senate,” Mr. Jeffries said during a news conference on Monday. “It’s not optional, Donald. It’s not.”Mr. Jeffries said lawmakers had seen “no evidence to date” that the strikes were legally justified or that an “imminent threat” to the United States existed. “If the administration has evidence to the contrary, come up to present it,” he said.Monday’s memo from Mr. Trump said the action was taken in part for the “collective self-defense of our ally, Israel,” but gave no additional details.Catie Edmondson contributed reporting.June 24, 2025, 3:20 p.m. ETReporters photographing a display for “Midnight Hammer,” the name of the American operation to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites, during a news conference on Sunday.Credit...Alex Brandon/Associated PressA preliminary classified U.S. report says the American bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran set back the country’s nuclear program by only a few months, according to officials familiar with the findings.The strikes sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings, the officials said the early findings concluded.Before the attack, U.S. intelligence agencies had said that if Iran tried to rush to making a bomb, it would take about three months. After the U.S. bombing run and days of attacks by the Israeli Air Force, the report by the Defense Intelligence Agency estimated that the program had been delayed, but by less than six months.The report also said that much of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was moved before the strikes, which destroyed little of the nuclear material. Iran may have moved some of that to secret locations.Some Israeli officials said they also believed that the Iranian government had maintained small covert enrichment facilities so it could continue its nuclear program in the event of an attack on the larger facilities.Other officials noted that the report found that the three nuclear sites — Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan — had suffered moderate to severe damage, with the facility at Natanz damaged the most. It is not clear whether the Iranians will try to rebuild the programs.Former officials said that if Iran tried to quickly develop a bomb, it would be a relatively small and crude device. A miniaturized warhead would be far more difficult to produce, and the extent of damage to that more advanced research is not clear.Current and former military officials had cautioned before the strike that any effort to destroy the Fordo facility, which is buried more than 250 feet under a mountain, would probably require waves of airstrikes, with days or even weeks of pounding the same spots.American warplanes did hit the same spots at least twice on Saturday. B-2s dropped 12 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs — often referred to as “bunker busters” — on Fordo, and six aboveground entry craters are now visible, according to Brian Carter, the Middle East portfolio manager at the American Enterprise Institute.But many military bomb experts believed that more than one day of strikes would be needed to complete the job.The initial damage assessment suggests that President Trump’s claim that Iran’s nuclear facilities were “obliterated” was overstated. Congress had been set to be briefed on the strike on Tuesday, and lawmakers were expected to ask about the findings, but the session was postponed. Senators are now set be briefed on Thursday, and House members on Friday.Since the strikes, Mr. Trump has complained to advisers repeatedly about news reports that have questioned how much damage was done, said people with knowledge of the comments. He has also closely watched the public statements of other officials when they are asked about the damage to the nuclear facilities, they said.In a statement on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reiterated Mr. Trump’s early assessment.“Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons,” he said. “Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target and worked perfectly.”Officials cautioned that the five-page classified report was only an initial assessment, and that others would follow as more information was collected and as Iran examined the three sites. One official said that the reports people in the administration had been shown were “mixed” but that more assessments were yet to be done.But the Defense Intelligence Agency report indicates that the sites were not damaged as much as some administration officials had hoped, and that Iran retains control of almost all of its nuclear material, meaning if it decides to make a nuclear weapon it might still be able to do so relatively quickly.Officials interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings of the report remain classified.The White House took issue with the assessment. Karoline Leavitt, a White House spokeswoman, said its findings were “flat-out wrong.”“The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program,” she said in a statement. “Everyone knows what happens when you drop 14 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”Elements of the intelligence report were reported earlier by CNN.The strikes badly damaged the electrical system at Fordo, officials said. It is not clear how long it will take Iran to gain access to the underground buildings, repair the electrical systems and reinstall equipment that was moved.A satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies of the Fordo nuclear site.Credit...Maxar Technologies, via Associated PressThere is no question that the bombing campaign “badly, badly damaged” the three sites, Mr. Carter said.But initial Israeli damage assessments have also raised questions about the effectiveness of the strikes. Israeli defense officials said they had also collected evidence that the underground facilities at Fordo were not destroyed.Before the strike, the U.S. military gave officials a range of possibilities for how much the attack could set back the Iranian program. Those ranged from a few months on the low end to years on the higher end.Some officials cautioned that such estimates are imprecise, and that it is impossible to know how long Iran would exactly take to rebuild, if it chose to do so.Despite claims of the sites’ obliteration by Mr. Trump and Mr. Hegseth, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been more careful in describing the attack’s effects.“This operation was designed to severely degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure,” General Caine said that at the Sunday news conference.The final battle damage assessment for the military operation against Iran, General Caine said on Sunday, standing next to Mr. Hegseth, was still to come. He said the initial assessment showed that all three sites “sustained severe damage and destruction.”General Caine added that it was “way too early” to assess how much of Iran’s nuclear program remained.Gen. Joseph L. Votel, the former commander of Central Command, said in an interview, that he had “a lot of confidence in the weapons systems used.” But he added: “I’m not surprised that elements survived. That’s why you do battle damage assessments, because everything can go as planned but there are still other factors.”At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Democrats also struck a more cautionary note.“We still await final battle damage assessments,” said Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.Military officials had said that to do more significant damage to the underground sites, they would have to be hit with multiple strikes. But Mr. Trump announced he would stop the strikes after approving the first wave.U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded before the strikes that Iran had not made the decision to make a nuclear weapon, but possessed enough enriched uranium that if it decided to make a bomb, it could do so relatively quickly.While intelligence officials had predicted that a strike on Fordo or other nuclear facilities by the United States could prompt Iran to make a bomb, U.S. officials said they do not know yet if Iran would do so.Representatives of the Defense Intelligence Agency did not respond to requests for comment.David E. Sanger contributed reporting.