The director of the US CIA says that the Iranian nuclear sites were “severely damaged”

The head of the CIA said that the US strikes were “severely damaged” Iranian nuclear facilities and returned them to years, as they diverged from a leaked intelligence report, President Donald Trump angered by reducing the impact of the raid.

John Ratcliffe, director of the US Spy Agency, said that the main sites have been destroyed, although he had not announced the announcement of the Iranian nuclear program.

It comes a day after the initial evaluation leaked by the Pentagon Intelligence Agency suggested that the basic components of the Iranian nuclear program remained sound after the US bombings.

Trump once again maintained that the raid “blur” Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The Republican President moved to social media on Wednesday to publish that the media “fake news” had fully lied and dominated the facts, which they had no.

He said that the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseh and other military officials will hold an “interesting press conference and cannot be refuted on Thursday in the Pentagon” for the struggle for the dignity of great American pilots. “

This came at a time when Israel and Iran looked for the second day to honor the fragile ceasefire, which helped Trump negotiate this week on the twelfth day of the war.

Speaking in The Hague, where the NATO summit came on Wednesday, Trump said about the strikes: “It was very severe. It was blurring.”

He also said that he would likely seek a commitment from Iran to end its nuclear ambitions in the talks next week. Iran has not recognized any such negotiations.

But the American Middle East envoy Steve Witkeov told us Network NBC that there was direct and indirect contact between the two countries.

The statement issued by Ratcliffe, which was appointed by Trump, said that the information of the CIA “is a new intelligence from a source/accurate and accurate method historically.

The Director of National Intelligence, Tolsi Gabbard, was also issued to support Trump’s evaluation of the damage to Iranian nuclear facilities.

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The American operation included 125 military aircraft, targeting the three main Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday.

New satellite images show six fires that gather around two points to enter Fordo, where similar drilling was monitored in ISFAHAN – but it is not clear whether the nuclear installations in the underground depth have been eliminated.

A report issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Pentagon was leaked to the American media on Tuesday, saying that the American bombing had regained the Iranian nuclear program “only a few months.”

The US Secretary of Defense said the evaluation had been “low confidence.”

Officials familiar with the evaluation warned that early evaluation could change with the emergence of more information. The United States has 18 intelligence agencies, which sometimes produce conflicting reports based on its mission and field of experience.

Raphael Grossi, head of the United Nations nuclear control, said on Wednesday that there was an opportunity that Tehran conveyed a lot of highly enriched uranium elsewhere when it was attacked.

But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ismail Bajili, told Al -Jazeera on Wednesday: “Our nuclear facilities were severely damaged, and this is certain.” He did not explain.

A report issued by the Israeli Atomic Energy Committee said that the strike on Fordo “destroyed the critical infrastructure of the site.”

The report said that the damage to all sites prompted Iran’s nuclear weapons schedule for “many years.”

However, Mahdi Mohammadi, the adviser to the Iranian Parliament Speaker, said shortly after the American strikes that “no irreversible damage was caused” in Fordo.

Iran has long preserved that its nuclear program is peaceful. American intelligence agencies had previously said that Tehran was not actively building atomic weapons.

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