PNN – The US President Donald Trump claim about the “complete destruction of Iran’s nuclear program” has become a major point of contention within the US, and the country’s media outlets are questioning his claim one after another.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday, June 22, that the US military had targeted Iran’s main nuclear facilities, namely Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The US President’s claim about the “complete destruction of Tehran’s nuclear program” following Washington’s attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear facilities has become a major point of contention within the US, and the country’s media outlets, one after another, are questioning the claims of the delusional man in the White House, citing sources.
After this blatant and unjustifiable aggression, Trump claimed that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear facilities were “completely destroyed” in this attack!
His deputy, J.D. Vance, echoed Trump’s claim that Tehran’s nuclear facilities were destroyed in these attacks, describing the attack as “one of the most successful military strikes in history.”
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, however, took a different tone, without repeating Trump’s claim, saying that the Iranians are further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the US President took this action. The most important thing to know is that there has been very significant damage to various sectors, and we are currently gathering more information about this.
Immediately after Trump’s claim, CNN reported, citing three sources familiar with an initial US intelligence assessment, that the country’s military attacks on three Iranian nuclear facilities last week did not destroy vital parts of the country’s nuclear program and likely only delayed it by a few months.
The New York Times subsequently reported, citing a senior American official, that the attack on Fordow did not destroy the facility, but only damaged it.
An angry Washington reacted after the leak of this information, and White House spokeswoman Carolyn Leavitt claimed to CNN in an unsubstantiated statement: This alleged assessment is completely false and, despite its top-secret classification, was leaked to CNN by an anonymous and low-ranking element in the intelligence community. The release of this alleged report is a blatant attempt to humiliate President Trump and discredit the brave pilots who carried out a flawless operation to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when 14 30,000-pound bombs land precisely on their targets: total destruction!
After CNN and the New York Times, the Associated Press also admitted that the US attacks on Fordow had failed. The news agency, based on a US intelligence report, stated that the US attacks did not cause significant damage to Iran’s nuclear program, but rather delayed it by several months.
The Wall Street Journal, citing initial intelligence reports, also emphasized that Washington’s attacks have set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
Elsewhere, Reuters reported, citing informed sources that US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities failed to destroy the country’s nuclear capability and only delayed it for a few months. Three sources familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the initial assessment was prepared by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. The U.S. strikes did not destroy Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and may have set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program by only a month or two, two of the sources said.
Trump, frustrated by the aforementioned reports and angry about the information leak, claimed on his social network called “Truth Social” that “CNN is a publisher of fake news and has colluded with the bankrupt New York Times in an attempt to discredit one of the most successful military attacks in history”!
Steve Whittaker, Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, said in response to the information leak and the widespread embarrassment that resulted from it: It is obvious that the leakage of such information, regardless of its content and regardless of the source from which it was leaked, is shameful and treacherous. It must be investigated and those responsible must be held accountable.
Today, Rubio distanced himself from Trump’s claim about the “total destruction” of Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying that the Isfahan site can be rebuilt.
Earlier, Reuters reported, citing a senior Iranian source, that most of the highly enriched uranium at the Fordow nuclear facility had been moved to another location before the US attack.
A few days after the US aggression against Iran’s nuclear facilities, which has brought a wave of condemnation from the international community, broader dimensions of the failure of Washington’s attack are becoming apparent; however, in the meantime, US supporters, as expected, have refrained from condemning the attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities.