How much damage did Iranian nuclear facilities suffer in the U.S. strike?
Initial intelligence assessments from the U.S. Department of Defense suggest that the U.S. Air Force strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites fell short of fully dismantling the country’s nuclear program, setting it back by only a few months.
Sources familiar with the Defense Intelligence Agency’s review told CBS, the U.S. partner of the BBC, that the bunker-buster bombings failed to destroy Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile.
The White House dismissed these early damage reports as “completely inaccurate,” calling them a deliberate attempt to discredit Donald Trump’s actions.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said of the initial report: “This so-called analysis is entirely wrong.
The document was classified as ‘top secret’ but was leaked to CNN by an unidentified low-level figure within the intelligence community.