US strikes on three key goals in Iran over the weekend do not destroy key components of the country’s nuclear program, according to an early assessment of the Pentagon intelligence.
The bold mission to bomb the sites that probably only put the program in the months, four people said in the report CnnS
Intelligence undermines Trump’s repeated insistence that nuclear objects are “completely and completely deleted”.
The evaluation was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency within the Ministry of Defense and is based on an assessment of damage from the battle of the US Central Command conducted after strikes, one of the sources told CNN.
President Donald Trump, talking to Air Force One reporters on the way to the NATO summit on June 24, 2025, where he claims that Iran would not have nuclear weapons after repeatedly insisting that the facilities had been deleted. / Andrew Harnik/ Getty Images
The assessment found that Iran’s stock from enriched uranium was not destroyed, two of the known people said, and one of the sources said that the centrifuges were largely intact.
Thehe New York Times Referring to employees familiar with the assessment, they also report that the preliminary findings find that the attacks were sealed from the entrances to two of the facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings.
The evaluation also said that a large part of the enriched Uranus stock had been moved in advance and the strikes destroyed the small nuclear material.
He comes as senior Trump administration officials turned to the success of strikes at the end of Saturday against Iran’s nuclear program, but some of them were publicly evasive when it comes to details about the degree of damage or the enriched uranium afterwards.
The White House on Tuesday directly rejected the early assessment of intelligence while recognizing its existence before CNN.
“This alleged assessment is wrong and classified as a” top secret “, but still expired with an CNN by an anonymous low -level loser in the intelligence community,” said White House press secretary Carolyn Levit.
“The expiration of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to humiliate President Trump and discredit the brave pilots of the fighters who have conducted a perfectly executed mission to delete Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pounds perfectly for their goals: she continued.”
Trump’s claims that Iran’s nuclear program has been “deleted” were repeated by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Minister Pete Heget.
However, the chairman of the joint chiefs General Dan Kane said in the morning after the strikes that the assessment would take some time and it was too early to weigh on while performing the operational success of the bold mission on Saturday.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Heget and chairman of the Joint Air Force Officers, General Dan Kane, hold a briefing in the Pentagon after the United States hit the Iranian nuclear facilities during the conflict in Israeli, the US, Virginia, USA, June 225, 2025, 2025 American
The new evaluation revelations come when the Senate and Iran House briefings were scrapped at the last moment on Tuesday. The Democrats have blown up the administration that they are no more forthcoming with Congress.
“The delay in the last minute was just a abandonment of their obligation to notify Congress,” said minority leader Chuck Sumer. “So what is the administration, so afraid that they do not want to inform us? They continue to slow it down.”
The senate briefing is deferred for Thursday. Sumer said the apology for the postponement was that heget and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had Trump at the NATO summit, could be there, but none of them was initially planned to be present anyway.
“Heget and even Rubio will give us many happy tales, but not the sinuses, the details we need,” said Sumer.
He claims that those who had to inform the Senate on Tuesday would give them the necessary details.
“In fact, the case is that Iran’s nuclear program is completely and completely deleted?” Asked the leader of minorities in the Hake Hake Jeffrries.
“Obviously, there are reasons to believe that this was a gross misconception made by Donald Trump of the American people,” he continued.
Jeffrese blew up the briefing of the house that was delayed. He also noted that there was not even a briefing with the so -called eight band, which included eight congress leaders, informed on intelligence.
Asked if he was convinced that Iran’s nuclear facilities were deleted, the leader of the Senate majority John Tun was surrounding the question and said they knew that the nuclear program had been canceled “significant”.