An initial classified evaluation found the US. strikes In Iranian nuclear facilities, Tehran’s nuclear program in a matter of months, three family sources with their content.
The evaluation, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon Military Intelligence Wing, said the attacks caused the entries to two nuclear enrichment facilities, included Fordbe Sealed. The resumption of the enrichment program can be determined for how long they will take to clear the entries and make repairs to electrical and water supplies, two sources said that the family with the results of the report.
The evaluation of the day also indicates that part of Iran’s enriched uranium storage moved before the strikes, said one of the sources.
Officials familiar with the CA -it report, it was an early evaluation that could change as more information about the sites is available. It was not clear immediately at what confidence level they were included in the report.
A complete evaluation of battle damage is still gathering, the president of the chiefs of joint staff, on Sunday, said Sunday in a press availability.
“The final battle damage will take some time, but the initial battle damage evaluations indicate that the three sites suffered extremely severe damage and destruction,” Caine said.
President Trump saying In a speech to the nation, following the attacks that “Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have been totally erased.”
Hello, that statement reiterated on Wednesday morning in the Netherlands, where I was Attend a NATO SummitTelling the reporters “they will not build bombs for a long time.”
“I think Israel will tell us very soon, because it’s bibi [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] You will have people involved in all that situation. We heard that it was obliteration, it was a virtual obliteration, “Trump said, he added that he did not believe that the Iranians” had the opportunity to get something out of their underground facilities before the strikes.
Trump said US strikes had delayed the Iranian nuclear program “basically decades.”
On Wednesday, Colonel Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said in a publication on the social networks of a line that the IDF had “confirmed, based on the evaluations of the military intelligence agency, which are now the years of BISHINGLION.”
Rising Lion is the name of the FDI Cool to its 12 -day military assault on the nuclear and military sites of Iran, and some other objectives linked to its leadership.
Brig spokesman IDF. General Effie Defrin said separately that it was “too soon” to completely evaluate the damage to Iran’s nuclear program, but added: “I can say that we resume it for years.”
He United States Air Force He joined the attacks of Israel, in the orders of President Trump, which dropped several bombs of 30,000 pounds at the Fordo Uranium Enrichment Center, local time on Sunday morning. But the evaluation of the day found that the enrichment infrastructure of the SIT, which is found hundreds of feet under a mountain, is deep underground that it remains largely intact, said a source.
The evaluation provides a range of possibilities of how long they will take to recover access to underground facilities and resume their work, 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 that this was a possible result.
The evaluation was based on satellite images and indicates intelligence, which is obtained from the communications of Iranian officials, said one of the sources.
Current and previous national security officials have expressed Conns that leaving Iran with any residual nuclear capabilities, including access to uranium already enriched at 60% and Worming’s central centers, could interify and accelerate.
Some of the details contained in the evaluation of the day were previously informed by CNN.
The White House has retreated the findings. The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, described the “incorrect” evaluation and said it was filtered “by an anonymous loser of low level in the intelligence community.”
“The escape of this supposed evaluation is a clear attempt to degrade President Trump and discredit the brave combat pilots who made a perfectly executed mission to destroy Iran’s nuclear program,” Leavitt said. “Everyone knows what happens when fourteen bombs of 30,000 pounds perfectly in their objectives: total obliteration.”
Mr. Trump criticized reports on the evaluation of the day in a social publication of truth, writing: “The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed!”
The Pentagon was also stopped by the previous statement of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth that the strikes had “erased” the nuclear capabilities of Iran.
“The impact of these bombs is buried under a mountain of debris in Iran; so anyone who says that the bombs were not devastating is only trying to undermine the president and the successful mission,” said Hegseeth in a statement.
In an interview with Fox News “” The Ingraham Angle “, the envoy of the Middle East of Trump, Steve Witkoff, described the launch of the” betrayal “report.
Witkoff also said that “it will be almost impossible for them to resurrect that program,” adding: “It will take a period of years.”
An informative session classified for Congress on the actions of the administration in Iran that had a leg scheduled for Tuesday was canceled. Senate legislators are insulted to be letters by the main intelligence and military officers on Thursday, a congress assistant familiar with the plan told CBS News. A similar report for the Chamber will be held on Friday, according to the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
Trump ordered strikes on Saturday at the enrichment sites of Uranium of Fordo and Natanz de Iran, as well as in a nuclear research center in Isfahan. The operation – Done With B-2 bombers and cruise missile counterattacks. TO Cease-fire Between Israel and Iran Tok Effect on Tuesday and seems to be retaining.
The strikes were destined to hinder Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has increased its highly enriched uranium arsenal in recent months, which caused groups to which it advanced towards a gun.
American intelligence agencies have evaluated that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. The same day that Mr. Trump authorized the strikes on Saturday, an American agency judged That Iran could make a nuclear weapon in just three to eight months, but there were no indications that the country’s supreme leader had authorized an effort to do so, CBS News has been reported. Other intelligence agencies in the United States have said that Iran would need a minimum of six to eighteen months to create a weapon they could offer successfully.
But Israel alleged that Iran is “running towards a nuclear bomb,” and Trump said last week that he believed he was “very close to having one.” Iran has insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful.
Tucker Reals, Eleanor Watson,
and Cristina Corujo contributed to this report.