Strikes degraded Iran’s capacity to build nuclear weapon: US

US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities “effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear weapon”, acting US envoy to the UN Dorothy Shea told the Security Council on Tuesday. “These strikes – in accordance with the inherent right to collective self-defence, consistent with the UN Charter – aimed to mitigate the threat posed by Iran to Israel, the region and to, more broadly, international peace and security,” Ms Shea told the 15-member council.