India, June 27 -- U President Donald Trump on Thursday accused congressional Democrats of leaking classified information about recent US military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and called for them to be "prosecuted."

"The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted," Trump posted on Truth Social, without offering evidence.

The Republican President also criticised the media coverage of the leaked intelligence and demanded that the journalists involved in reporting the document be fired.

The leak in question involved a preliminary assessment by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) saying that the recent strikes under America's Operation Midnight Ha...