Donald Trump and his administration They are climbing vertiginously and intensely Press attacksalways in the Diana of the Republican, to do questions about the effects of the bombing of the United States to the three nuclear facilities of Iran, questions that remain unanswered.
This Thursday the onslaught has been led by the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. In an early press conference in the Pentagon, the former military, who was a presenter in Fox News, has been launched in shape fierce against journalists that on Tuesday they published with leaks news about a Preliminary Intelligence Service of the Pentagon itself according to which attacks have only managed to delay the Iranian nuclear program for a few months.
“It’s as if I were In your DNA and your blood be against Trump“HEGSET said, who has come to ensure that journalists”They want you not to succeed “ And he has affirmed that “al Search for scandals Historical moments of Trump’s success are lost ”, among which the NATO summit, recruitment figures and, with more insistence, bombings to Iran.
“They have to question the effectiveness of these attacks, take half truths, manipulate information filtered in all forms that can cause doubts in citizens about the success of our brave pilots,” said Hegseth, who has claimed again that the mission was a “Historical success.” “We should celebrate it as Americans,” he added.
The big doubt about enriched uranium
In that press conference, in which the Chief of the Joint Chiefs have also participated, General Dan Caine, they have given themselves More data and details about the American attack on Saturday, especially on the launch of the Powerful GBU-57 drilling bombs In Fordow, but not about the specific results he had. And Hegseth has eluded answer a Key question: If Iran had moved before the bombings to other facilities the 408 kilos of uranium that has enriched.
When a journalist has directly raised that question Hegseth has accused her of being “one of the worst” when “misinforming”, something that she has refuted firmly. It’s about Jennifer Griffinone of the most reputed reporters that cover the pentagon and does, precisely, for Fox News, the chain where Hegseth worked.
Trump shortly after has hung a message in Truth Social It has no evidence To prove it, or at least they have been made public for the moment. And both Iranian and expert authorities and the controversial preliminary defense intelligence report have pointed out that movement.
“Diabolic intentions”
Trump He had clearly been following Hegseth’s appearance and Enjoying the open confrontation of the Secretary of Defense with journalists. Shortly after the end had hung on his social network another message saying: “One of the best, most professional and” confirming “press wheels that I have ever seen! False news should fire everyone involved in this witch hunt and apologize to our great warriors and everyone else. ”
In a third message he called to be specifically fired journalists from CNN and ‘The New York Times’, the two media that gave the exclusive of the preliminary intelligence report on Tuesday. “Bad people with diabolical intentions”the president came to write, who from the first moment has shown outrage at any information that question the total success of the attack and that on Wednesday At the NATO summit exploded against the press for making public the conclusions of the preliminary report.
The message
All in the Republican administration are working to redirect the message and conversation. The director of the CIAJohn Radcliffe, who said in a statement on Wednesday that the agency “can confirm that the Iranian nuclear program has been seriously damaged”, an assessment attributed to new intelligence information from a “historically reliable and trustworthy source.” The National Intelligence Director has also done so, Tulsi Gabbard, He has talked about “new intelligence confirming that Iranian nuclear facilities have been destroyed.”
They were quoted by Hegseth in his press conference this Thursday, as well as Israeli military, Iranian authorities already United Nations. And replied words of Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has said on French radio that the Iranian nuclear program “has suffered enormous damage.” What Hegesh did not say is that Grossi has also declared that statements that the program has been “completely destroyed” are exaggerated.
