Fox News has claimed for months that Iran’s military had been destroyed. New reporting says US intelligence agencies have concluded otherwise. (opens in new tab)

Since the early stages of President Donald Trump's Iran war, Fox News personalities and guests have parroted his administration's assertions that Iran's military has been severely decimated or destroyed. Yet on May 12, The New York Times reported that those assertions are “sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors” and that Iran has “restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz." Liber...