Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday is “way too early” to assess whether Iran still has nuclear capability following strikes on three of its major nuclear facilities, and described the mission, “Operation Midnight Hammer” as a “complex and high-risk mission carried out with exceptional skill and discipline by our joint force.”
“This operation was designed to severely degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure,” Caine told reporters at the Pentagon. “It was planned and executed across multiple domains and theaters, with coordination that reflects our ability to project power globally with speed and precision at the time and place of our nation’s choosing.”
He added that very few people knew the timing or the nature of the plan.
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