Iran The nuclear installations were “blown at Kingdom Come”, American president Donald Trump said on Wednesday.
“We have destroyed nuclear. In other words, which is destroyed. I said that Iran would not have nuclear. We have exploded it. He blew up the kingdom,” said Trump, speaking at the top of NATO in Hague in the Netherlands.
He added: “It was very, very successful. He was called obliteration. No other army on earth could have done so. And now this incredible American force exercise has paved the way for peace with a historic ceasefire agreement late Monday. And we call it the 12 -day war. “
Trump’s comments come after The American media, including the Associated Press, reported On an American intelligence report which suggested that Iran’s nuclear program was only found a few months after the American strikes.
It was not “completely and completely erased” as Trump said previously, according to several people familiar with the early evaluation cited by the Associated Press, Reuters and other main American media.
Trump rejected these apparent conclusions when questioned by journalists on Wednesday.
“If you take a look at the photos, if you take a look to what extent everything is blackened, the fire and the sulfur are everything underground because it is granite and everything is underground. You do not show it. But even there, with everything being said, declared Trump for 75 meters around the hole where he (the American missiles) is black with the fire,” said Trump.
The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who was also at the top of NATO, said that there would be an investigation into the way in which intelligence assessment disclosed and rejected the report as “preliminary” and “low confidence”.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio added: “These leaks are professional stabbers.”
“Low confidence” generally refers to information considered as poor coming or incomplete.
Later Wednesday, Trump’s national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard said in A post on x This “new intelligence confirms” what Trump said: “Iran’s nuclear installations were destroyed. If the Iranians chose to rebuild, they should rebuild the three installations (Natanz, Fordow, Esfahan), which would probably take years to do. ”
The Gabbard office refused to answer questions about the details of the new intelligence, or if it would be declassified and published publicly.
In addition, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe said in A statement Wednesday This “credible intelligence corpus indicates Iran’s nuclear program has been seriously damaged by recent and targeted strikes”.
“This includes new information from a historically reliable source / method specifies that several key Iranian nuclear installations have been destroyed and should be rebuilt over the years,” the statement said.
Ratcliffe added A post on x that the new CIA intelligence “contradicts public relationships of illegal origin”.
The report of the US Defense Intelligence Agency on Monday, quoted by familiar people, contradicts the statements of Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the status of Iranian nuclear installations.
According to people, the report noted that if Sunday strikes the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan Nuclear sites have done significant damage, the facilities were not completely destroyed. The people were not allowed to approach the question publicly and spoke under the guise of anonymity to the American media.
Trump added that the United States will soon speak with the Iranian side.
“We are going to talk to them next week with Iran. We can sign an agreement, I don’t know,” he said. “The way I look at him, they fought, the war is over.”
Rubio added: “It will depend on the will of Iran not only to engage in peace, but to negotiate directly with the United States, and not by a third country or a fourth country.”
Iran has not recognized any talks that take place next week, although the American envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said that there had been direct and indirect communication between countries. A sixth cycle of American negotiations from Iran was planned earlier this month in Oman, but was canceled after Israel attacked Iran.
Earlier, Trump said that the ceasefire was going “very well” and added that Iran “was not going to have a bomb, and that they will not rejoice”.
– with files from the Associated Press
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