The initial assessment discussed by CNN was issued by the Military Intelligence Agency, operating within the Pentagon. It is based on damage analysis conducted by the Central Command (Cencom) after American attacks on three Iran nuclear objects that occurred on Saturday night to Sunday – one of the sources donated.
Analysis of the destruction of objects and the impact of attacks on Iranian nuclear ambitions continues and may change with the emergence of more intelligence information – the station pointed out.
Two sources, familiar with the initial intelligence assessment, informed that the Iranian supplies of enriched uranium were not destroyed. A large part of Uranus was to be transported to another place before the attack. It is possible that Uranus went to secret Iranian nuclear objects. One of the interlocutors reported that the centrifuges are largely “untouched”. The New York Times also wrote that preliminary assessments indicate that as a result of the American attack of entrance to two objects they were isolated, but the underground buildings were not destroyed.
“So the assessment is that the US has withdrawn (nuclear program) can at most a few months,” said the source.
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Preliminary assessments are contrary to the declarations of US President Donald Trump, who ensures that the “completely and totally annihilated” strokes “Iranian uranium enrichment plants.
The White House did not agree with the assessment discussed by the media, ”CNN said. “The leakage of this alleged assessment is an obvious attempt to humiliate President Trump and discredit brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly performed mission of destroying the Iranian nuclear program,” said the spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt. “Everyone knows what is happening when you throw exactly 14 bombs of 13 tons on the target: complete destruction,” she added.
On Monday, Trump said that “everyone knows” that the US nuclear objects in Iran were “completely destroyed”. He criticized some of the media, including CNN, because they, according to him, disseminate “fake news” on this subject.
