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The assessment, compiled by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — the Pentagon’s intelligence division — is based on battle damage reports from US Central Command
US President Donald Trump shared the news on his social media platform Truth Social on June 24. (Image: Reuters/File)
US President Donald Trump lashed out at media reports questioning the effectiveness of the US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling them “fake news” and insisting, “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. The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed!”
His comments came in response to a CNN report, which cited a classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment suggesting that the strikes only set Iran’s nuclear program back by a few months, rather than destroying it.
The report, based on battle damage assessments from US Central Command, claimed that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile remained untouched and its centrifuges were largely intact, directly contradicting Trump’s and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s public assertions that the programme had been “obliterated.”
The CNN report noted that the actual damage was largely limited to aboveground structures, while core underground components at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan survived the strikes.
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