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At least 627 people were killed in Iran during its recent conflict with Israel, Iranian state media outlet IRIB says, citing the country鈥檚 health ministry.

The report added that at least 4,870 other people were injured by Israeli attacks between.

The map below shows the location of Israeli strikes on Iran between June 13 and June 24.

Senior military intelligence officials in Israel have claimed the damage done to Iran's nuclear programme by Israeli and US strikes is "systemic".

The chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces, citing the intelligence officials, says the damage is "severe, broad and deep" and has set back Iran's nuclear project by "years".

France's Emmanuel Macron says he has emphasised to Benjamin Netanyahu the need for both Israel and Iran to respect the current ceasefire.

In a post on X, Macron says he stressed the importance of resuming negotiations with Tehran "whether regarding nuclear or ballistic issues" during a call with Netanyahu.

The French leader said he also reiterated the need for a ceasefire in Gaza to Israel's prime minister, as well as the release of hostages and the pursuit of a two-state political solution.

JD Vance has hit out at the journalists reporting on the leaked US intelligence report about America's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The report, which Trump and his cabinet have tried to play down, said the strikes had only set Iran's plans back "a few months" rather than the sites being "obliterated" as Trump had suggested.

In a lengthy post on X, Vance said the media in the US "is full of the least curious, least insightful people in our country".

"The way the media has presented the report is contradicted by the IAEA, the Iranians themselves, and the administration's political and defence leadership," he said.

"More importantly, the media's reports are contradicted by common sense."

"President Trump has obliterated the Iranian nuclear program," he adds. "The American media seems destined to obliterate their own credibility on this fake story."

Donald Trump is on his way back to the US after attending the NATO summit in The Hague.

The US president answered quickfire questions from the world's media during a news conference before he left. 

Here's what he said:

• Trump hailed US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, which he said had "reasserted the credibility of American deterrence", adding that "no other military on Earth could have done it";
• He insisted that Iran's nuclear sites were "obliterated" and hit out at a leaked US intelligence report which suggested the damage done isn't as bad as Trump has made out to be;
• He revealed the US will hold talks with Iran next week, saying the two countries "may sign an agreement";
• On Ukraine, Trump said he thinks Vladimir Putin has "been misguided" and said both the Russian leader and Volodymyr ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y wanted to end the war;
• He then hit out at Spain for not matching the defence spending target of other NATO countries, saying he will "make them pay twice as much" in trade deals as a result.

Iran has officially acknowledged the death of Ali Shadmani, the head of the emergency command headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian state media IRNA has quoted a statement from the headquarters which says Shadmani died from injuries after Israeli strikes last week.

Shadmani was an aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and helped coordinate between the regular army and IRGC.

He was appointed on 13 June after his predecessor, Gholam-Ali Rashid, was also killed by Israeli air strikes.

By Michael Clarke, Sky News military analyst

At the end of the Cold War, the UK gave up using dual-use aircraft that could carry nuclear bombs and decided instead to rely entirely on submarine-launched Trident missiles.

While Britain will continue to have its Trident system, this move is, in a way, a step back towards being more flexible by having these aircraft available as well.

These jets can also do other things, but they are cleared for nuclear use and can carry US nuclear gravity bombs, providing the UK with a tactical nuclear system that it can share with allies.

At present, seven other countries in Europe are able to use air-launched or air-delivered nuclear weapons, and we'd be joining that club as the eighth member.

So it's a step back into the situation the UK was in during the Cold War and takes the country back into the tactical nuclear business.

It's no fun, but it is a reflection of where we are now in world politics.

We've just heard Donald Trump and his team repeatedly praise the "obliteration" US strikes caused at Iranian nuclear sites (scroll down for more).

Just before Trump made those remarks at the NATO summit, Emmanuel Macron said France will make its own analysis on the damage caused.

The French president said he would meet the head of the UN atomic watchdog in Paris later.

"We are finalising our analysis with everything we have and then it will be confronted with the analysis of other interested countries, obviously the Americans, other Europeans, Israelis," he said. 

The final question goes to our security and defence editor Deborah Haynes, who asks about the NATO chief's flattery of Donald Trump.

Mark Rutte described Donald Trump as "daddy" earlier today, in reference to halting the Iran-Israel conflict and treating the participants like children (see our 13.22 post for the video).

Asked if he considers NATO members to be like his children, Trump gives this answer...

"He likes me, I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back, and I'll hit him hard, OK? Very affectionate."

Pressed more on how he views fellow members of the alliance - given how they've adhered to his demands to spend more on defence - he says he thinks they "need a little help".

"One of the gentlemen said, you know, what we've been trying to [do is] raise the rate for 30 years," Trump adds.

"He said, until you came along, it never happened. What you did is amazing."

Asked if the alliance can cope without US support, he responds "ask Mark", referring to the NATO chief.

As he leaves the stage, he tells the audience to remember the US is the "hottest" country in the world.

Donald Trump's defence secretary is giving an impassioned speech now, claiming Iran's nuclear programme "is obliterated" after US strikes.

Pete Hegseth attacked a US intelligence report which said the Iranian nuclear programme may not have been destroyed, as Trump and his staff have claimed.

He says the report was designated "low confidence" because "all the evidence is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated".

"So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep, because Iran's nuclear programme is obliterated and somebody, somewhere, is trying to leak something to say 'oh, with low confidence'."

He adds: "That's why they came to the table right away, because their nuclear capabilities have been set back beyond what they thought were possible because of the courage of a commander in chief who led our troops, despite with the fake news wants to say."