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CIA director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that credible information indicated that the Iranian nuclear program was “seriously damaged” in Recent American air strikes And that several key sites have been “destroyed”.
An initial assessment of the Defense Intelligence Agency was disclosed on Tuesday that the American bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites may have withdrawn the country’s nuclear program by only several months, a more limited impact than President Donald Trump said after strikes.
The precise damage inflicted on Iran’s nuclear installations and the viability of its broader program have become politically loaded problems, Trump and his deputies denounced the leak of the DIA report and the media that reported it. Democratic legislators accused the White House of overvaluing the effect of strikes.
Ratcliffe said on social networks That CIA’s conclusions were based on “credible information” and that they contradicted what he called “public relationships of illegal origin concerning the destruction of the main Iranian nuclear installations”.
Ratcliffe cited new information “of a historically reliable and precise source / method according to which several key Iranian nuclear installations have been destroyed and should be rebuilt over the years.”
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, offered a similar evaluation Earlier in the day.
Army experts and former intelligence officials say that Iran could relaunch its nuclear program even without the three targeted nuclear sites if it managed to protect a sufficient offer of highly enriched uranium and advanced centrifuges.
The head of the United Nations atomic supervisory agency Rafael Grossi, Iran was possible in Vienna on Wednesday in Vienna on Wednesday, still has a highly enriched uranium stock despite an Israeli air campaign of 12 days and American air raids this weekend. Tehran may have moved uranium shortly after the first bombings by Israel, said Grosi.
Before Ratcliffe published his declaration, Trump rejected the evaluation of the DIA as undertaking and premature and said on several occasions that the nuclear sites and the Iran nuclear program had been “erased”.
DIA labeled its initial assessment as “low confidence”, according to three sources knowing the question.
Intelligence analysts generally present their results with different levels of trust, depending on the quality and credibility of the information available.
The initial evaluation of the DIA was based on Sunday evening results, around 24 hours after the American bombing of the Iranian nuclear installations, said one of the sources.
A complete evaluation of battle damage is still underway, depending on the report, and days will take days, according to one of the sources.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told journalists from the NATO summit in the Netherlands that DIA’s assessment was considered “low confidence” Because the proof of what has been bombed “is buried under a mountain, devastated and erased”.
NBC News reported Tuesday That the initial assessment revealed that strikes had probably fell the Iran’s nuclear program from around three to six months, but have not definitively destroyed Iran’s nuclear program as Trump said.
The initial intelligence reports do not indicate that all Uranium stocks highly enriched by Iran have been destroyed or recorded, and there are still questions about Iran’s advanced centrifuge, which have not been found on nuclear sites bombed by American aircraft, also reported NBC news on Tuesday.
The Israeli Atomic Energy Commission said on Wednesday that the American bombing had made the Fordo “inoperable” underground enrichment site.
“We assess that the American strikes on Iranian nuclear installations, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of the Iranian military nuclear program, have heard Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons of many years,” the commission said in a statement.
He added that “success can continue indefinitely if Iran does not have access to nuclear materials”.
