A preliminary report of American intelligence advised Tuesday to moderate Donald Trump’s enthusiasm, who defined as a “spectacular success” the military operation launched over the weekend against three Iranian uranium enrichment and storage facilities. The US president also assured that the plants of Fordow, Isfahán and Natanz were “total and completely destroyed.” According to this first filtered report to the press, the thing was not so much: the spectacular military deployment, which included missiles tomahawk Run from submarines and between another weapons, 14 bombs of more than 13,000 kilos, only managed to delay the Iranian nuclear program for a few months.
He carries the signature of the Defense Intelligence Agency (day are its acronym in English). The text, whose content advanced the CNN and then confirmed other US media by citing anonymous sources, not only ensures that certain key components of the nuclear program, including centrifuging, could be restarted in a matter of months, also reveals what many suspected: much of the Iranian reserves of enriched uranium, of the class that would be used in the manufacture of a nuclear weapon, Bombing, predictably, to other secret facilities distributed by Iran.
White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, responded on Tuesday to the CNN information from her X account. “This alleged ‘evaluation’ is complete [sic]a low level loser in the intelligence community. ”
To “a clear attempt to denigrate President Trump and discredit the brave combat pilots who carried out an impeccably executed mission to annihilate the Iranian nuclear program.” The White House spokeswoman concluded: “Everyone knows what happens when fourteen bombs of 13,600 kilos are launched on their objectives: the total annihilation.”
The only thing in which both parties agree is that it is still early to obtain the complete photograph of the real impact that the attacks had, in which B-2 aircraft were used, which dropped antibunker bombs, as Israel had requested after several days of aerial siege to Iran, on the enrichment plants of Fordow and Natanz. The mission in Fordow was especially complex, whose facilities are buried at a depth that is calculated between 45 and 90 meters under the mountains to the south of Tehran.
According to the report of the day, the damage both in these facilities and in the storage of Isfahán was mainly limited to the superficial structures, which, yes, were seriously affected.
“I’ve seen everything”
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, reacted on Tuesday to the CNN information and said that, based on “everything seen” – “and I have seen everything,” added the “bombing campaign annulled Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons.” “Our huge bombs hit the precise point of each objective and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says they were not devastating only tries to undermine the president and the success of the mission,” Hegseth warned.
In the morning, Trump had once again influenced his message from the first hours after the attack and then tempted the Chief of the General Staff, General Dan Caine, on Sunday. “I think that [las instalaciones nucleares] They have been completely destroyed, “the US president insisted.” Those pilots achieved their goals. Those objectives were destroyed, and you have to recognize the merit of the pilots. ”To the question of whether he believed that Iran was in a position to resume his nuclear program, Trump replied:“ That place is buried. That place is destroyed. ”
The Republican president made those statements to the reporters who were waiting for him to take the presidential helicopter Marine One, At the beginning of his trip to The Hague (Netherlands), not only because of the situation in the Middle East – Trump arrives in Europe after having forced a high fire agreement between Israel and Iran -, but also by
The evaluation of the damage caused by the bombings ordered by the US president is an still open battle that is fought on several fronts and whose resolution depends on the merit that Trump can finally be attributed after a risky ordago. This Tuesday, the Democratic senators criticized the postponement of the presentation of a confidential report that happened and, above all, how much was destroyed in the early hours of last Sunday in Tehran.
Chuck Schumer, minority leader in the Senate, criticized the “last -minute postponement” of the informative session. “He is outrageous, evasive and negligent,” he said visibly angry at the journalists highlighted in the Washington Capitol. “The administration has the legal obligation to inform the Congress about what is happening. What are you afraid? Why do they not share crucial details, the result of the recent attack, the scope and perspectives of the conflict, the long -term strategy of the administration to prevent Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, the potential risks that American citizens and our military face, to whom we all have the obligation to protect?”
Next Friday it is expected that the congressmen receive the information about the attack on Iran that was stolen on Tuesday.
