“If Iranians choose to rebuild, they will have to rebuild all three facilities,” the director of the National Intelligence Department said.
National Intelligence Director Tarsi Gabbard said on Wednesday that the new intelligence reporting agency has shown to challenge reports that Iran has retreated the country’s ability to produce nuclear weapons, giving the government only a few months’ delay.
“New Intelligence confirms what @Potus has said many times: Iranian nuclear facilities have been destroyed. If Iranians choose to rebuild, the three facilities (Natanz, Fordow and Esfahan) will need to be completely rebuilt. I wrote it In Wednesday’s X post.
Several media citing anonymous sources reported that the Defense Intelligence Reporting Agency (DIA) had discovered that strikes at three Iranian facilities last weekend were not as important as publicly alleged. These reports also claimed that Iran moved much of its uranium supply prior to the airstrike.
Echoing Gabbard’s statement, CIA Director John Ratlciffe I wrote it X also challenged Tuesday’s report a few days ago, saying that Iran’s nuclear program was “subject to a body of credible evidence” that a US strike had “severely damaged” Iran’s nuclear program.
President Gabbard, Ratcliffe and Donald Trump denied the claims of these media outlets and described the DNI report as preliminary.
“Propaganda media is deploying normal tactics. To undermine President Trump’s critical leadership, they selectively released some of the classified intelligence ratings that were illegally leaked (deliberately excluded the fact that the rating was written with “low trust”), and brave military personnel and women maintained a truly historic mission and protected future people in order to protect the people of America safely.
Over the weekend, the US launched several airstrikes at three Iranian nuclear facilities in just over a week after Iran and Israel launched daily attacks, prompting fear of a wider, prolonged conflict.
Gabbard’s comments said that just hours after Trump read a statement from Israeli officials aloud, an Iranian facility, including the Fordow site, partially buried under the mountain, had been completely destroyed by a US B-2 bomber.
“The devastating US strike at Fordow has destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and prevented the enrichment facilities from operating completely,” Trump said at a NATO meeting in the Netherlands, reading a statement from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission.
He said Israeli agencies are rating “the US strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities has retreated Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons for years to come.”
Trump said the strike was responsible for ending a 12-day war between Israel and Iran, and ended World War II in 1945 compared to Japan’s use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The president has said Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but the country’s administration has long said that the nuclear program is a peaceful purpose.
Earlier this week, Trump announced that Israel and Iran would join a ceasefire agreement to end the conflict in which the two countries were launching missiles at each other. Israel first attacked Iran on June 13, saying it had eliminated many generals and commanders in the regime.
Previously, Trump had the idea that Iran could receive a “change of government” if the country did not move to negotiations over a nuclear program. But on Tuesday, he I said Reporters who say he doesn’t want a change in government have ruled Iran as an authoritarian theocratic theocracy since 1979, following the revolution that led to a fatal hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran, which lasted more than a year.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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