The move follows an initial assessment by the agency in June indicating strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities had a more limited effect than President Trump said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from US strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official.

The head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and two other senior officers are being removed, officials said Friday -- the latest in a series of military firings this year.Other senior officers dismissed this year include the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard,