Trump also claimed it was a “great honour” to have “destroyed” Iran’s nuclear facilities and to have ended the war that Israel launched on June 13. Tensions between Iran and Israel flared further this week, with Iran launching missiles at a US military base in Qatar on Monday. The attack came in response to strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites by the US a day earlier. Despite Trump’s claims of a successful strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, a US intelligence assessment cited by CNN suggests otherwise. “The US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” said a source familiar with the findings, adding that the core components of Iran’s nuclear programme remain intact.