The firing of the head of the US Defense Intelligency Agency (DIA) Lieutenant General Jeffery Kruse comes after the DIA produced a preliminary assessment that said US strikes on Iran set back Tehran's nuclear program by just a few months.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest national security senior officer to be purged.