Sen. Eric Schmitt: “Just think about that feat—of being in the air for 30 hours… and execute something that precise… we accomplished that particular goal, and then immediately moved toward peace and a ceasefire. It’s pretty remarkable.”

Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth: “What President Trump accomplished in NATO yesterday was game-changing and historic … 32 NATO countries committed to spending 5% of their GDP on defense on actually investing in the NATO alliance.”

Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine demonstrates how GBU-57 MOPs work: “Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won’t see an impact crater because they’re designed to deeply bury and then function … All six weapons at each vent at Fordow went exactly where they were intended to go.”

Pete Hegseth on Iran: “We’re watching very closely what they do… our job is to be prepared… but the President has created the contours, the opportunity for a deal; for peace — and we got that peace, that ceasefire… because of strength.”

TRUMP ON FORDOW: The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!

A piece of suspected missile debris was found this morning floating in the water near the shore of the Kinneret. Israeli police marine officers and inspectors secured the area and removed the left over threat.

ANOTHER ONE CONFIRMED: IRGC Quds Force’s Palestine department head, General Izadi, was killed in an Israeli strike in a few days ago.

TRUMP EFFECT: Summer road trips appear to be safe from a big spike in gasoline prices. The national average price of gasoline has hovered around $3.20 a gallon this week. The last time the cost for drivers was lower in late June was in 2021, when the pandemic depressed demand for the fuel.

Ayatollah Khanemei delivered a live televised speech, his first public statement since the ceasefire was declared. Unsurprisingly, Khamenei spouted lies and propaganda about Iran’s “victory” and even claimed that the Islamic Republic delivered a “harsh slap to America’s face” and “crushed the Zionist state.” He added that the US felt forced to join the war out of fear that “the Zionist regime would be totally destroyed.”

Secretary of Defense Hegseth reads intelligence assessments that confirm the Iranian regime’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated: “Rendered the enrichment facility inoperable” “Enormous damage to Iran’s nuclear sites” “Destroyed Iran’s centrifuge enrichment program” “Destroyed”