A confidential report prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency (day) of the United States He concluded that recent air attacks against nuclear facilities in Iran would have had a limited impact on the development of the Tehran Atomic Program. According to this preliminary evaluation, The operations would have delayed the Iranian advance just one or two months.
The document, which does not yet have unanimous acceptance within the American intelligence community, frontally contradict the public statements of the President Donald Trump and of his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. Both argued that the military operation, carried out over the weekend with antibunker bombs and conventional weapons, had completely eliminated Iran’s nuclear capacity.
“Our attacks were necessary to prevent I will access the nuclear weapon”Trump said after the operation. The president said that the key facilities of the program were “complete and totally destroyed.” Along the same lines, Hegseth said that Iran’s atomic ambitions had been “erased.”
A lower impact announced by Donald Trump
However, three sources with direct knowledge of the report revealed to the Reuters agency that The impact would have been less than the administration promotes. One of them explained that Iran’s enriched uranium reserves were not eliminated and that the program could recover its rhythm in a matter of weeks.
The day, central organism of the Pentagon in Military Intelligence, is one of the 18 agencies that make up the US security system. Although its evaluation is not definitive, It generates internal fissures and opens questions about the real effectiveness of the attack.
An American official, who asked for anonymity, He acknowledged that the true scope of the damage is still unknown. The complete evaluation will require time, due to the difficulty of verifying the situation in the attacked sites, such as the Fodow, Isfahan and Natanz facilities.
From the Pentagon, they did not denied the existence of the report but defended the forcefulness of the operation. “Our bombs impacted with millimeter precision and caused total devastation”Hegseth said. “Anyone who denies it is trying to discredit the president and the success of the mission.”
The White House, meanwhile, avoided answering questions from the press. However, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt described as “flatly erroneous” the evaluation disseminated by CNN, the medium that the report announced for the first time. “Everyone knows what happens when 14 bombs of 30,000 pounds are launched on their objectives: total destruction”he declared.
While the White House insists on Victoria’s speech, the day document installs a new controversy over the transparency of the Trump administration in international defense and security. It also focuses on the margin of error that can exist between military action and its posterior technical evaluation.
Source: Ambito
