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A new American intelligence report has revealed that Iran’s nuclear program was only found a few months after an American strike, and was not “completely erased” as American President Donald Trump said, according to two people familiar with early evaluation.
The first information report published by the American Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) contradicts the statements of Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday on the status of Iranian nuclear installations. The people were not allowed to approach the question publicly and spoke under the guise of anonymity.
According to people, the report revealed that Saturday strikes At the Ford nuclear sites, Natanz and Isfahan have done significant damage, the sites 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 strikes and survived, according to people. He also found that Iran centrifuges are largely intact.
In the deeply buried Fordow uranium enrichment factory, the entrance collapsed, but the underground infrastructure was not destroyed, according to one of the people. The person also said that previous assessments had warned of this result at Fordow.
The White House Raves
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 put 14 bombs of 30,000 pounds perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”
Look | NATO chief reaches Trump:
President Donald Trump published a screenshot of a message sent to him by the NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, on social networks on Tuesday. In the exchange of text, Rutte congratulated him on his “decisive action” in Iran and that all NATO allies accept at least five percent of their GDP in defense.
Asset said in the comments And published on social networks in recent days, notably on Tuesday, that strikes “have completely destroyed” sites and that Iran will never reconstruct its nuclear installations.
The American president said that attacks were necessary to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Iran denies that it is looking for such a weapon and says that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Netanyahu applauds “historic” American involvement
Netanyahu said on Tuesday in a television statement “for decades, I promised you that Iran would have no nuclear weapons and indeed … We have brought the nuclear program of Iran.”
He said the United States joining Israel was “historic” and thanked Trump.
The United States Central Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) refused to comment on the evaluation of DIA. ODNI coordinates the work of the country’s 18 intelligence agencies, including DIA, which is the intelligence branch of the American Department of Defense, responsible for intelligence production on foreign soldiers and the abilities of adversaries.
The intelligence assessment was reported Tuesday by CNN for the first time. Reuters and the New York Times also published reports on the evaluation of DIA.
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 said,” the Democratic chief of the American representative Hakeem Jeffries said on Monday.
Classified briefings on the issue of members of the House of Representatives and the US Senate were canceled on Tuesday.
William Hague, a former secretary in the United Kingdom of Foreign Affairs, said that regardless of the number of damage caused by American strikes, he will always be a continuous challenge to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
“In the long term, it will be very difficult to prevent nuclear weapons from proliferating using force” Radio Times. “It will need agreements.
“And a humiliated and defeated power in history normally finds a way to return – in this case, with a nuclear weapon – in the future.”
