Iran's nuclear capabilities suffered "severe damage" in last week's U.S. airstrikes but not "total damage," said the man in charge of the world's global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Caine described the preparation that went into the strike against Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility. He also detailed how soldiers on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar defended the base against strikes from Iran.

The ongoing debate over whether Iranian nuclear sites were “obliterated”, as the US president and his team insist, or merely “damaged”, as much of the intelligence suggest, should make us pause and think about the nature and purpose of intelligence. As Donald Rumsfeld famously said “if it was a fact it wouldn’t be called intelligence”.