US President Donald Trump and his administration have strongly rejected a preliminary intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency suggesting that recent American airstrikes inflicted only limited damage on Iran's nuclear facilities. Trump maintained that the strikes resulted in the "total obliteration" of Iran's nuclear capabilities, setting the country's atomic program back by decades. The administration also disputed reports that Iran moved enriched uranium prior to the US bombings, emphasizing that the intelligence community did not have the full picture at the time of the president's initial statements. Meanwhile, Israeli officials have indicated that it is still too early to fully assess the impact of the strikes on Tehran's nuclear program.
Trump admin hits back at accounts Iran moved uranium before US bombing. https://t.co/2mdnwSK4wD
President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected an early intelligence assessment that U.S. strikes inflicted only a marginal setback on Iran’s nuclear... https://t.co/wxEsBfXRZF
President Donald Trump’s administration hits back at accounts #Iran may have moved enriched uranium before #US bombing, as a row grew on how much the strikes set back Tehran’s nuclear program. https://t.co/58C8SStTlW