BBC News, Washington DC
The Chief of CIA said that “strictly damaged” Iran nuclear plants and set them back in years, deviating from the leaky intelligence report that the President Donald Trump reduces the impact of the attack.
John Ratcliffe, director of the American Spy Agency, said that key sites were destroyed, although it stopped declaring that the Iran’s nuclear program was eliminated completely.
The day after a leaked preliminary estimate from the Pentagon’s intelligence agency, the suggested cores of Iranian nuclear program remained intact after American bombings.
Trump re-claimed that the attack “erasing” Iran nuclear plants.
The Republic President took into social media on Wednesday to set that “false news” lied and completely misrepresented the facts, of which they did not have. “
He said that the American Minister of Defense of Pete Hegseth and other military officials held a “interesting and non-refundable journalist conference on Thursday at the Pentagon” in order to fight for the dignity of our great American pilots. “
It was that Israel and Iran seemed to honor the fragile truce that Trump helped negotiate 12. Dana of the war this week.
Speaking in The Hague, where NATO summit took a summit, Trump said for strikes: “It was very difficult. It was deletion.”
He also said that he was likely to seek Iran commitment to stop his nuclear ambitions in talks next week. Iran did not acknowledge any such negotiations.
But American Endoa Eston Envoi Steve Vitkoff told us NBC network, there was direct and indirect communication between countries.
Ratcliffe, appointed Trump, said that the CIA information included “new intelligence from historically reliable and accurate sources / methods that several key Iranian nuclear plants were destroyed and had to be renewed over the years.”
The director of the National Intelligence Service Tulsi Gabbar also exited Trump assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear plants.
“If Iranians chose to rebuild, they would have to rebuild all three objects (Natanz, Fordo, Esfahan) completely, which should probably do the years,” she wrote on X.
The American surgery included 125 military planes, on Saturday who targeted three main Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday.
New satellite images show six crates of clustered around two entrances to Ford, and similar craters were observed on Isfahan – but it is unclear that nuclear underground was erased.
The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency’s report leaked in the United States on Tuesday, assessing that American bombing has set the return of the Iran’s nuclear program “Just months”.
The US Secretary of Defense said that the assessment was made with “low confidence”.
Officials who are familiar with the assessment warn that it is an early assessment that could change because more information appears. The United States has 18 intelligence agencies, which sometimes produce conflicting reports based on their mission and field of expertise.
The UN Nuclear Chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday that there was a chance that Tehran shifted most of his highly enriched uranium elsewhere while attacked.
But the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Esmail Baghae said Al Jazeera on Wednesday: “Our nuclear installations are badly damaged, it is safe.” Did not work out.
The report of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission said that the strike on Fordo “destroyed the critical site infrastructure”.
The damage at all locations, the report said, pushed the Iranian weatherpape for nuclear weapons back “Many years.”
However, Mehdi Mohammadi, an advisor to the President of the Iranian Parliament, said soon after she attacks that “no irreversible damage was held” on Ford.
Iran long claimed that her nuclear program was quiet. The American intelligence agencies said that Tehran did not actively build atomic weapons.
