US strikes failed to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites, intelligence report says. US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend did not destroy the country’s nuclear program, early intelligence suggests, contrary to claims by President Donald Trump, a report states. Citing four people briefed on the initial assessment produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, CNN reports that the strikes likely only set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back by months.
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Trump rejects leaked intelligence that says strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme. Donald Trump insists nuclear sites in Iran were “completely destroyed” by US military strikes, despite an intelligence report casting doubt on their success The leaked damage assessment from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency estimates the attack only set Iran’s nuclear programme back “a few months”
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The US air strikes on Iran set back its nuclear progress by less than six months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that casts doubt on Donald Trump’s claims to have “obliterated” the programme. In a post on his Truth Social platform late on Tuesday, the US president reiterated his claim that Iran’s nuclear sites were “completely destroyed”. “Fake news CNN, together with the failing New York Times, have teamed up in an attempt to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history,” he said.
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Trump’s strikes have ‘pushed’ Iran towards nuclearization.
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Iran’s first nuclear reactor was a gift from a surprising source: the United States. Known as the Tehran Research Reactor, it’s small facility in the capital’s suburbs. It was a gift from President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1967 as part of the ‘Atoms for Peace’ program, which shared nuclear technology with American allies. The reactor is used for peaceful scientific purposes, including the production of medical isotopes, and does not have weapon capabilities. But, for Iran, it was a start. ‘We gave Iran its starter kit,’ Robert Einhorn, a former US arms control official involved in nuclear talks with Iran, told the New York Times. ‘We weren’t terribly concerned about nuclear proliferation in those days, so we were pretty promiscuous about transferring nuclear technology,’ he said. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini turned to Pakistan – another country funded by the ‘Atoms for Peace’ program – to help Iran build up its nuclear program, including obtaining centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels. From then on, Iran secretly advanced its nuclear program, enriching uranium to the 90% mark so it could be used as a weapon. By the early 2000s, two key clandestine facilities were finished, ones that contained more centrifuges and heavy water abilities to create weapons-grade uranium. Its secret nuclear facilities were exposed in 2002.
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Were Iran strikes for nothing? Fears Tehran is hiding thousands of centrifuges in secret nuke-making facilities – and may even have bomb components in North Korean mountain lairs. Donald Trump declared this weekend that his bunker-busting bombs ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear facilities and erased the Islamic Republic’s chances of building a bomb. But despite his triumphant bluster, Iran still likely boasts significant stockpiles of highly enriched uranium (HEU) and could well have other facilities lying in wait to reach purity levels required to fashion nuclear warheads.
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