India, June 26 -- The US administration doubled down on Thursday on how the destruction unfolded on Iran's nuclear facilities after the American attack and detailed the military tactics and explosives to bolster their argument.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a rare Pentagon news briefing, said that the attack on Iranian sites were historically successful.

"You want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated - choose your word. This was an historically successful attack," Hegseth told reporters, according to the Associated Press.

The defence secretary said that the intelligence report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, released on Monday, was preliminary and that it acknowledged there was lo...