Trump pushes back after leaked report suggests Iran strikes had limited impact

Donald Trump and his best officials pushed on leaked intelligence reports that strikes at Iran set us only their nuclear program in a few months.

Speaking at NATO Summit in The Hague on Wednesday, Trump said that strikes led to “virtual deletion of Iran nuclear abilities and set up their atomic program” to decades “.

The Secretary of Defense of Pete Hegseh, who was also at the summit, said the preliminary assessment of the Pentagon was made with “low confidence” and the FBI researched a leak.

On Tuesday, Sources familiar with the initial report on Saturday bombings He said that the BBC’s American partner CBS for Iranian enriched uranium is not eliminated.

They added that the strikes only set the country’s nuclear program – the evaluation of the White House quickly described as “flat is not” wrong “.

According to the report, strikes on strongly established enrichment in Ford and Nathan are sealed outside the entrance, but failed to destroy the underground structures.

Officials familiar with the assessment of the Defense Intelligence Agency warned that it was an early assessment that could change because more information becomes available regarding the site.

The defense of the intelligence agency is the Pentagon Agency that specializes in military intelligence to support operations. It collects large amounts of technical intelligence, but is different from other agencies like CIA.

The United States has 18 intelligence agencies, which sometimes produce conflicting reports based on their mission and field of expertise. For example, the American intelligence community is not yet in agreement on the origin of Cavid-19.

On Wednesday, while sitting on Mark Rutta’s main NATO, Trump initially admitted some uncertainty that the intelligence service was “very inconspicuous”.

But then he went further in his assessment, he said “It was very serious, it was [an] Ejecting “.

When asked if he would now hit Iran to continue his nuclear activities, Trump said, “Of course, but I won’t have to worry about it. It’s years.”

Trump later warned strikes at the American atomic bombing of Hiroshim at the end of World War II at the end of World War II.

“I don’t want to use the example of Hiroshim, I don’t want to use the example of Nagasaki, but it was essentially the same thing – which ended the war,” he said.

The American president commented on the Secretary of the State of Marco Rubio and the Secretary of Defense of Pete Hegeth, who both echoed by his skepticism for leaking intelligence.

Hegseh said that the leak was politically motivated and insisted that the bombs were “just turned there where they needed.”

He added: “Any estimate that tells you that it is something otherwise, they are speculated with other motifs.” Characterized a leak as “completely false”.

Rubio also doubted the credibility of leaked reports, suggesting that the content was distorted in the media and labeling flakes as “professional stabs”.

The preliminary assessment also indicated that some of the enriched stock in uranium Iran was moved before the attack.

According to sources that are familiar with it, Iranni centrifuises remain largely “intact” with destruction limited to tombstones.

Inputs in two nuclear meals were blocked and some infrastructure was damaged, they said, but a large part of deeper installs survived explosions.

In American intelligence terminology, “low trust” usually indicates that information or poorly obtained, fragmented, or uncertain – is less reliable than evaluated with “moderate” or “high confidence”.

Hegset’s calls for the “Low Trust” report suggests that it is folded and its findings can change as more details appear.

The United States hit three nuclear locations in Iran – Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan – using bombs “Bunker Buster” designed to penetrate the underground goals.

Although specific ammunition used in attack are not confirmed, at 30,000lb (14,000 kg) mining office (MOP), only weapons are able to destroy Iran underground enriched facilities.

Tehran has always said that her nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

At the clock that followed strikes on Saturday, Gen Day Caine, the president of the common heads of staff, told reporters that it would take time to evaluate the damage to the facilities.

But he added that “all three places held extremely serious damage and destruction”. Satellite images showed that six fresh craters grouped around two entrance points at Fordos nuclear locations, as well as gray dust and debris.

It is unclear of the latest satellite images, however, how much damage to the location suffered below the surface.

Hassan Abedini, Deputy Political Director of the Iranian State Broadcast, said that three places targeted us evacuated “before” before Iran “did not suffer a big deal because the materials were already taken out.”

In the meantime, American and Israeli officials welcomed the mission as success.