According to media reports, the US attacks in the Iran Tehran’s nuclear program, according to a confidential report, have only thrown back by a few months.
A first secret service assessment assumes that the bombing of Iran’s weekend could not destroy underground nuclear facilities, as the newspaper “New York Times” and the broadcaster CNN reported. Both media appealed to the report of the Military Secret Service (DIA) reported officials.
After the US attacks, US President Donald Trump spoke of the fact that the nuclear facilities in Isfahan, Natans and Fordo had been destroyed. We were talking about a death blow to the Iranian nuclear program. The spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, criticized the publication of the expert opinion classified as “strictly secret”. The assessment was wrong, she wrote on the X. After an attack that the United States had carried out, there was “total annihilation”, everyone knew that.
CNN: Nuclear program slows down at most for a few months
According to the secret service report, only the entrances are said to have been destroyed on the area built deep into the mountain in Fordo, but the underground buildings themselves are not. The five -sided report also assumes that Iran had already moved its existence of enriched uranium to other places before the attacks, as the “New York Times” continued.
According to CNN, the attack is said to have thrown the Iranian nuclear program “at most by a few months”. The newspaper spoke of less than six months.
US military commented more cautiously than politics
Both media emphasized that it was a first report and that further investigations could lead to other conclusions. US general staff Dan Caine had already commented on Sunday more cautiously than the political leadership. In front of journalists, he told journalists to the effect of the attacks, in which massive bunkerbreaking bombs were also used that there were “serious damage and destruction” on the nuclear facilities.
Israel had started a war against his arch enemy Iran a good ten days ago. Iran’s nuclear program and the development of ballistic rockets wanted to stop with massive air strikes against destinations across the country. As of today, a ceasefire has been in the conflict.
Iran has always emphasized that its nuclear program only serves civil purposes, not the development of nuclear weapons.
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Washington (dpa-Afx)