An initial classified assessment found the United States strikes On Iranian nuclear installations, remove the Tehran nuclear program in a few months, depending on three sources familiar with its content.
The evaluation, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the military intelligence wing of the Pentagon, said that strikes had caused the entries of two nuclear enrichment facilities, in particular Expenditurebe sealed. The resumption of the enrichment program can be determined by the time it is necessary to Iran to clean the entries and make repairs to electrical and water supplies, according to two familiar sources with the conclusions of the report.
The DIA assessment also indicates that part of Iran’s enriched uranium stocks was moved before strikes, according to sources.
Familiar officials with the report warned that it was an early evaluation that could change as more information becomes available on the sites. It was not immediately clear on the level of confidence that the judgments included in the report were made.
A complete assessment of battle damage is still being receipt, the president of the chiefs of joint staff, General Dan Caine said on Sunday.
“The final battle damage will take some time, but the initial battle damage assessments indicate that the three sites have suffered extremely serious damage and destruction,” said Caine.
President Trump said In an address to the nation that followed strikes that “Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were completely and completely erased”.
THE US Air Force Several bombs of 30,000 pounds have been abandoned in the enrichment of Uranium Fordo early Sunday morning, local time. But the evaluation of the DIA revealed that the site enrichment infrastructure – which is located hundreds of feet under a mountain – is so deep underground that it remains largely intact, said a source.
The evaluation offers a range of possibilities for the time that Iran will take to regain access to underground installations and resume their work, ranging from a few months to less than a year, the source told CBS News. The source added that Trump administration officials were warned before the strike was a possible result.
The evaluation was based on satellite imaging and the intelligence of signals, which is gleaned by the communications of Iranian officials, according to sources.
Current and former national security officials have expressed their concern that leaving Iran with residual nuclear capacities – including access to uranium already enriched at 60% and working centrifuges – could intensify and accelerate the regime to create a working weapon.
Some of the details contained in the DIA evaluation were previously reported by CNN.
The White House rejected the results. Press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, described the evaluation of “flat pain” and said that she had been disclosed “by a low -level anonymous loser in the intelligence community”.
“The leak of this alleged evaluation is a clear attempt to lower President Trump and discredit the brave hunting pilots who carried out a perfectly executed mission to erase the Iran nuclear program,” said Leavitt. “Everyone knows what is happening when you perfectly drop fourteen bombs of 30,000 pounds on their targets: total obliteration.”
The Pentagon also resisted the previous assertion of the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, according to which strikes had “erased” the nuclear capacities of Iran.
“The impact of these bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; therefore anyone who says that the bombs were not devastating simply try to undermine the president and the successful mission,” Hegseth said in a press release.
In an interview with “The Ingraham Angle” by Fox News, the Middle East envoy of Fox News, Steve Witkoff, called the release of the Dia report “Treasonous”. He said “we know full well” that the Natanz site was destroyed and said about Fordo’s strike: “There is no doubt that it was erased.”
Witkoff also said: “It will almost be impossible for them to resuscitate this program”, adding “, it will take a period of several years”.
A classified briefing for the convention on the actions of the administration in Iran, scheduled for Tuesday, has been canceled. Senate legislators should rather be informed by senior intelligence officials and soldiers on Thursday, said a familiar congress assistant with the plan at CBS News. A similar briefing for the house will be detained Friday, according to the president of the room Mike Johnson on Friday.
Trump ordered strikes on Saturday on the enrichment sites of Fordo and Natanz of Uranium in Iran, as well as in a nuclear research center in Isfahan. Operation – accomplished With B-2 bombers and cruise missiles launched by submarine-added to an Israeli campaign of more than a week against Iranian nuclear and military sites, attracting Iranian counterattack. A ceasefire Between Israel and Iran entered into force on Tuesday and seems to be held.
The strikes aimed to thwart the nuclear program of Iran. Iran has strengthened its highly enriched uranium stock in recent months, which has aroused worries that it advanced towards a weapon.
American intelligence agencies have evaluated Iran is not currently built A nuclear weapon. The same day that Mr. Trump authorized the strikes on Saturday, an American agency evaluated The fact that Iran can make a nuclear weapon as little as three to eight months, but nothing indicates that the country’s supreme chief authorized an effort to do so, CBS News reported. Other American intelligence agencies have said that Iran would need a minimum of six to eighteen months to create a weapon that they could successfully deliver.
But Israel allegedly alleged that Iran “flowed towards a nuclear bomb”, and Trump said last week that he thought Iran was “very close to having one”. Iran insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful.
Eleanor Watson,
And Cristina Corujo contributed to this report.
