Initial Classified Assessment found US beats At Iranian nuclear facilities that went to Tehran's nuclear program for several months, according to three sources familiar with its content.
In the assessment conducted Freodbe sandy. Recovery of the enrichment program can determine how much time Iran is required to clear the entrances and repair of electrical and water reserves, the two results reported.
The DIA's assessment also shows that some of Uranus enriched Iran were transferred before the blows, one of the sources said.
Officials familiar with the report warned that it was an early assessment that could change if additional information becomes on the sites. It was not immediately clear at what level of trust the opinions were accepted.
On Sunday, the chairman of the joint chief of the General Denna Kane was still collected on Sunday, said the chairman of the General Chief of Staff Dan Kane.
“The final damage to the battle will take some time, but the initial estimates in the battle show that all three sites have caused extremely serious damage and destruction,” Kane said.
President Trump – Note In the appeal to the nation after the strikes that “the nuclear areas of Iranian enrichment were completely and completely destroyed.”
A US Air Forces A few 30,000 pounds of bombs at the Fordo Uranus enrichment facility were scored early on Sunday morning. But DIA's assessment revealed the site enrichment infrastructure – hundreds of feet under the mountain – so deep underground that it remains largely prolonged, one of the sources said.
The assessment provides a number of opportunities for how much time it takes for Iran to return access to underground facilities and restore its work, starting from a few months to less than a year, the CBS News source said. The source added that the officials of the Trump administration were warned to the strike that this is a possible result.
The assessment was based on satellite images and intelligence signals, which received from Iranian officials, one of the sources said.
The current and former national security officials have expressed concern that it is to leave Iran by any residual nuclear capabilities – including access to uranium, already enriched to 60%, and workers' centrifuges – can strengthen and accelerate the regime's determination to create a working weapon.
Some of the details contained in the DIA evaluation were previously report from cnn.
The White House pushed to the conclusions. Spokesman Carolyn Levita called the “flat wrong” assessment and stated that it was traced to an anonymous, reproduced in the intelligence community. ”
“The leakage of this alleged assessment is an obvious attempt to humiliate President Trump and discredit the brave pilots who held a perfectly fulfilled mission to destroy Iran's nuclear program,” Levit said. “Everyone knows what happens when you are perfectly omitted fourteen 30,000 pounds for your goals: complete obliteration.”
The Pentagon also stood before the previous statement by the Minister of Defense Pete Hegsette that the strikes “destroyed” Iran's nuclear capabilities.
“The influence of these bombs is buried under the mountain of glowing in Iran; therefore, everyone who says bombs were not devastating, just trying to undermine the president and a successful mission,” Hugset said in a statement.
The combined briefing for the Congress on the Actions of the Administration in Iran, which was scheduled for Tuesday, was canceled. Instead, the Senate Inspensers need to inform higher intelligence and military officials on Thursday, one Congress Assistant, familiar with the plan, said CBS News. A similar briefing for the home will be posted On Friday, according to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
Mr. Trump ordered to strike on Saturday at the Iran enrichment in Ford and Natanto, as well as in nuclear examination in Isfohan. Operation – spend With B-2 bombers and launched underwater rockets-offered in more than weekly Israeli campaign against Iranian nuclear and military sites, attracting Iranians counteract. A Due to the cost of the hall Between Israel and Iran came into force on Tuesday and seems to be holding on.
The strikes were aimed at restraint of Iran's nuclear program. In recent months, Iran has increased a high -enriched uranium, which has caused concern that it was moving to weapons.
US intelligence services appreciated Iran is currently not building Nuclear weapons. The same day that Mr Trump allowed to hit on Saturday, one American agency evaluated What Iran can do nuclear weapons in just three or months, but there was no sign that the country's supreme leader allowed it to do so, CBS News reports. Other US intelligence agencies have stated that Iran would need at least six -time months to create a weapon they could provide with success.
But Israel claimed that Iran was “racing towards a nuclear bomb”, and Mr. Trump said last week that Iran was “very close to it.” Iran insisted that his nuclear program was peaceful.
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