Despite the US attack, Iran's nuclear centres haven’t been completely destroyed !

Claim by a Senior Israeli Official

Tel Aviv (Israel) – A senior Israeli official has claimed that Iran’s nuclear energy centres were not completely destroyed in last month’s U.S. airstrikes and that Iran still retains the capability to enrich uranium.

The United States’ strikes on three key Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday failed to destroy underground facilities and set Tehran’s nuclear programme back only by a few months, according to an assessment of a confidential American intelligence report.

1. The “top secret” document prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – the intelligence arm of the Pentagon – and published by major US news outlets on Tuesday is at odds with President Donald Trump’s claims about the strikes.

2. Trump has insisted that the nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan were “obliterated” by a combination of bunker busting and conventional bombs.

Trump and his administration’s senior officials are dismissing the intelligence report and calling out the reporting over the DIA’s assessment as “fake news”.

Speaking at a NATO summit in The Hague, the US president said he believed Iran’s nuclear programme was set back by decades.

So, what did the DIA assessment say about US strikes? What has Iran said about the attacks? And how does the intelligence report contrast with the Trump administration’s public claims?

What did the DIA report say?

A preliminary report prepared by the DIA noted that rather than obliterating Iran’s nuclear programme, the US bombings had only set it back by a few months.