New Delhi, June 22 -- Calling US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites on Sunday morning "incredible and overwhelming success", the Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said that President Donald Trump's order was focused, powerful and clear.

"The order we received from our commander-in-chief [Trump] was focused, it was powerful, and it was clear we devastated the Iranian nuclear program," he told reporters at the Pentagon on Sunday.

"This is a plan that took months and weeks of positioning and preparation, so that we could be ready when the President of the United States called," he told reporters.

"It took a great deal of precision. It involved misdirection," he added.

Hegseth said the strikes did not target Iranian troops or people, but the...