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A new American intelligence report revealed that Iran The nuclear program was only found a few months after an American strike and was not “completely and completely erased” as a American president Donald Trump said, according to several people familiar with early evaluation.
The intelligence report published by the Defense Intelligence Agency Monday contradicts the statements of Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the status of Iranian nuclear installations.
Two sources have confirmed the content of the report to the Associated Press, while Reuters said that he had spoken to three familiar people. The people were not allowed to approach the question publicly and spoke under the guise of anonymity.
According to people, the report found that if Saturday strikes the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan Nuclear sites did significant damage, they were not completely destroyed.
The evaluation revealed that at least part of the highly enriched uranium of Iran was moved from several sites before the United States strikes and survive, and it also found that Iran centrifugal are largely intact.
In the deeply buried uranium enrichment factory, the entrance collapsed and the infrastructure has been damaged, which will take time to repair, but the underground infrastructure has not been destroyed, according to one of the people. The person also said that previous assessments had warned this result in Fordo.
The White House has greatly rejected the evaluation, the appellant “flat bad”.
“The leak of this alleged evaluation is a clear attempt to lower President Trump and discredit the brave fighter pilots who carried out a perfectly executed mission to erase the Iran’s nuclear program,” said the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, in a statement. “Everyone knows what is happening when you perfectly drop fourteen bombs of 30,000 pounds on their targets: total obliteration.”
Trump has declared in comments and messages on social networks in recent days, notably on Tuesday, that the strikes had left the sites in Iran “completely destroyed” and that Iran never reconstructs its nuclear installations.
Trump administration told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that its weekend strikes on Iranian nuclear installations “degraded” Iran’s nuclear program, unless of the Trump assertion that the installations were “erased”.
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Netanyahu said on Tuesday in a television statement “for decades, I promised you that Iran would have no nuclear weapons and indeed … We have led to ruin the nuclear program of Iran.”
He said the United States joining Israel was “historic” and thanked Trump.
A source told Reuters that the evaluation was not universally accepted and had generated significant disagreements.
The Pentagon challenged the idea that Iran’s nuclear program damage was minor, although it did not dispute that the evaluation of the dias exists.
“Based on everything we have seen – and I saw everything – our bombing campaign has erased Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons,” said US Secretary for Defense, Pete Hegseth, in a statement provided to Reuters.
“Our massive bombs struck exactly the right place with each target – and worked perfectly. The impact of these bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; So whoever said that the bombs were not devastating try simply to undermine the president and the successful mission. ”
Initial military assessments can change as more information appears and it is not uncommon for opinions to vary between different American intelligence agencies.
The evaluation of damage to the nuclear sites of Ford, Isfahan and Natanz should be a difficult task, and DIA is not the only agency responsible for work.
The CIA and the office of the Director of National Intelligence refused to comment on the evaluation of the DIA. ODNI coordinates the work of the country’s 18 intelligence agencies, including DIA, which is the intelligence branch of the Department of Defense, responsible for intelligence production on foreign soldiers and the capacities of adversaries.
The intelligence assessment was reported Tuesday by CNN for the first time.
Democrats previously said that Trump’s claims that weekend strikes were seriously eliminated or withdrawn the Iran’s nuclear program were not yet supported by evidence.
“There is no evidence that I saw that the nuclear program was completely and completely erased as Donald Trump alleged,” said the Democratic Chief of the House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries on Monday.
Classified briefings on the issue of members of the House of Representatives and the Senate were canceled on Tuesday.
The writers of the associated press Eric Tucker and David Klepper contributed to this report. Reuters additional files
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