Iran: Nuclear facilities 'Badly damaged'

US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump reveled in the swift end to war between Iran and Israel, saying he now expected a relationship with Tehran that would preclude rebuilding its nuclear program despite uncertainty over damage inflicted by US strikes.

- JEFF MASON, ALEXANDER CORNWELL & PARISA HAFEZI The Hague/Tel Aviv/Istanbul, June 25

As exhausted and anxious Iranians and Israelis both sought to resume normal life after the most intense confrontation ever between the two foes, Iran's president suggested that the war could lead to reforms at home.

Trump, speaking in The Hague where he attended a NATO summit on Wednesday, said his decision to join Israel's attacks by targeting Iranian nuclear sites with huge bunker-busting bombs had ended the war, calling it "a victory for everybody".

He shrugged off an initial assessment by the US Defence Intelligence Agency that Iran's path to building a nuclear weapon may have been set back only by months, saying the findings were "inconclusive" and he believed the sites had been destroyed. "It was very severe. It was obliteration," he said.

Israel's Prime Minister's office released an assessment by Israel's own nuclear agency that the strikes had "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years". The White House also circulated the Israeli assessment.