The CIA Director says Iran’s nuclear objects are “heavily damaged”

The CIA leader said we were struck by Iran’s “severely damaged” nuclear facilities and returned them for years, different from a leaking intelligence report, which angered President Donald Trump, downplaying the impact of the attack.

John Ratcliffe, director of the US spy agency, said the key sites had been destroyed, although he stopped announcing that Iran’s nuclear program had been eliminated directly.

It comes a day after a preliminary evaluation by the Pentagon Intelligence Agency, proposed the main components of Iran’s nuclear program, remain intact after the US attacks.

President Trump again maintains that the attack has “deleted” Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The Republican President set out on social media on Wednesday to publish that the media “fake news” had “lied and completely presented the facts, none of which had.”

He said the Secretary of Defense Pete Heget and other military officials will hold an “interesting and irrefutable” press conference on Thursday in the Pentagon “to fight the dignity of our great American pilots.”

He came as Israel and Iran seemed to be the second day that they worship a fragile end of the fire that Trump helped negotiate this week on the 12th day of the war.

Speaking to the Hague, where he attended the NATO summit on Wednesday, Trump said of the strikes: “It was very difficult. It was a deletion.”

He also said he would probably seek a commitment from Iran to end his nuclear ambitions next week. Iran has not recognized such negotiations.

But the Middle East of the United States, Steve Vikof, told us the NBC network that there was direct and indirect communication between the countries.

Ratcliffe’s statement appointed by Trump said that CIA information includes “a new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities have been destroyed and will have to be restored for years.”

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabard also came up with Trump’s assessment of the damage to Iranian nuclear facilities.

“If the Iranians have decided to recover, they will have to restore all three facilities (Nathan, Fordo, Esfahan) entirely, which will probably take years,” she wrote to X.

The US operation included 125 military aircraft aimed at the three main Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday.

New satellite images show that six craters are grouped about two Fordo entrance points, with similar craters spotted in Isfahan. But it is unclear whether the nuclear facilities located deep underground have been erased.

A Pentagon Defense Agency had expired on US media on Tuesday, assessing the US bombing had returned Iran’s nuclear program “Only a few months”.

The US Secretary of Defense said a “low confidence” was evaluated.

Officials familiar with the assessment have warned that early assessment can change when more information has emerged. The US has 18 intelligence agencies that sometimes prepare controversial reports based on their mission and field of experience.

The head of the UN nuclear guard Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday that Tehran is likely to move much of his highly enriched uranium elsewhere since he was attacking.

But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Bagay told Al Jazeera on Wednesday: “Our nuclear installations were very damaged, that’s for sure.” He has not developed.

A report from the Israeli Atomic Energy Committee said Fordo’s strike “destroyed the critical infrastructure of the site.”

Damage to all sites, said in the report, pushed Iran’s time line for nuclear weapons back from “many years”.

Still, Mehdi Mohammadi, an adviser to the Iranian Parliament chairman, said shortly after the United States strikes that “no irreversible damage” had been inflicted in Ford.

Iran has long claimed that his nuclear program is calm. US intelligence agencies have said earlier that Tehran is not active atomic weapons.