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The United States has bombed Iranian nuclear sites Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan on June 22.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, insisted that strikes on several Iranian nuclear sites last week “completely destroyed” the facilities, rejecting American media reports citing an evaluation of the Pentagon that the attacks only put the nuclear program of Tehran of a few months.
An initial intelligence assessment suggested that the American bombardment has not destroyed Iranian underground nuclear installations, the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN reported on Tuesday, quoting familiar officials with the military intelligence report of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Two people familiar with the evaluation had told CNN that “Uranium enriched with Iran had not been destroyed” and that centrifugal was “largely intact”.
Another source told the American diffuser that, according to the evaluation, the enriched uranium had been moved before the American strikes.
Trump argued that the United States strikes Destroyed the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear installations.
“The false news CNNs, with the faulty New York Times, have joined forces with the aim of lowering one of the most successful military strikes in history,” Trump wrote in an article on his Truth social platform.
“Nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed!” He wrote.
When journalists asked him questions about Iran to rebuild his nuclear program Trump said on Tuesday: “This place is under rock. This place is demolished.”
The White House said that the intelligence assessment was “to be downright wrong”.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a press release: “Everyone knows what’s going on when you lay fourteen bombs of 30,000 pounds perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”
Steve Witkoff, the American special envoy in the Middle East, also rejected the intelligence report.
“All three had most, if not all, the centrifuges damaged or destroyed in a way that it will be almost impossible for them to resuscitate this program,” Witkoff told Fox News on Monday evening.
“In my opinion, and in the views of many other experts who have seen raw data, it will take a period of years.”
Witkoff also called the “betrayal” report.
“He should be investigated. And whoever did it, anyone is responsible for it, should be held responsible,” he added.
Washington, DC, Shihab Rattansi of Al Jazeera reports said that an information war was underway.
“There are clearly personalities in Washington who wish to disclose an assessment of the bombing of the very preliminary defense intelligence agency,” he said.
He noted that journalists from the White House received a press release, saying that “the leak of this alleged evaluation is a clear attempt to lower President Trump and discredit the brave hunting pilots who carried out a perfectly executed mission to erase the Iranian nuclear program”.
“This is the first moment that we see, after the bombing, of the information landscape and the way in which this information will be used and what effect it could have on Donald Trump in the future,” said Ratansi.
