Contrary to Netanyahu’s earlier statement, reports from CNN and The New York Times claim Donald Trump’s bunker buster blitz on Sunday did not destroy Iran’s three key nuclear sites, citing a US intelligence assessment.
According to four of CNN’s sources, an analysis of damage to sites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz revealed that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed – and that centrifuges were largely “intact”.
“The US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” one source told CNN.
The Times says the analysis shows the American bombardment “sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings”.
The assessment was conducted by the Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency, and sits in direct conflict with claims made by Trump himself that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” the nuclear sites.
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