Quill Lawrence

At a news conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dan Kaine said targeting of Iran's defense industrial base continues.

Keynes said that 50 Iranian ships have been destroyed in an effort to protect navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit point for worldwide oil exports.

In the past day, President Trump has said both that the war is mostly complete and also that it could go on for some time.

U.S.

officials have been consistent that there will be no protracted nation-building effort like the U.S.

tried for decades in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hicks has said Iranian missile and drone capabilities were severely diminished.

But even as he spoke, air raid sirens were heard in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, sending people running to shelters.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

At a Pentagon news conference, Hegseth said Iranian offensive capabilities are diminishing rapidly as the U.S.

and Israel establish control of the airspace over Iran.

The Iranian Navy has mostly been destroyed, including a ship sunk by a U.S.

submarine in international waters.

Hegseth sidestepped a question about whether the U.S.

is working with ethnic Kurdish rebel groups in northwestern Iran to further destabilize the Iranian regime.

When asked if the U.S.

has enough munitions to outlast Iran's missiles and drones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Dan Kaine said there are sufficient precision munitions for the matter at hand, but wouldn't go into detail, citing operational security.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

CENTCOM posted on social media that U.S.

forces had targeted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian air defenses and missile and drone launch sites.