A recent Pentagon intelligence report has raised serious questions about the early claims of total success following U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
This has led to rumors about the job security of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as an internal review contradicts what the administration has been saying publicly.
Even though President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth repeatedly stated that the June 21 strikes on Iran had “completely and totally destroyed” the country’s nuclear sites, an early analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) tells a different story. Reports show that the strikes failed to wipe out Iran’s most important nuclear resources, including its stockpile of enriched uranium and critical centrifuges.
This DIA report, based on a U.S. Central Command damage assessment done right after the attacks, concludes that the heart of Iran’s nuclear program was mostly untouched, with the program only being delayed by a few months at most. Sources familiar with the report said Iran’s enriched uranium supply was unharmed, and most of its centrifuges were still working. Additionally, intelligence suggests that enriched uranium had been moved away from the targeted sites before the U.S. strikes.
The White House can’t stop all of its leaks
The White House has admitted that the DIA report exists but strongly disagrees with its findings. The White House press secretary called the report completely wrong and said the leak was a deliberate attempt to hurt the President’s credibility and dishonor the pilots who carried out what the administration called a flawless mission to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. The White House insisted that dropping fourteen 30,000-pound bombs on their targets always results in total destruction.
President Trump, while at a NATO summit in the Netherlands, quickly dismissed reports about the leaked assessment on his social media. He called the strikes “one of the most successful military strikes in history” and firmly stated that Iran’s nuclear sites were “completely destroyed.” He also said Iran would not be able to build a nuclear weapon or continue enriching uranium after the attacks.
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Defense Secretary Hegseth, who was with President Trump at the NATO summit, confirmed the existence of the classified intelligence report but described it as “top secret,” “preliminary,” and “low confidence.” Hegseth suggested the leak was politically motivated and announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had started an investigation to find out who was responsible. He insisted that the damage to the facilities was somewhere between “moderate to severe” and most likely “severe and obliterated.”
He also confirmed that the Pentagon was conducting a criminal investigation into the intelligence leak, stressing that such information is meant for internal military assessments and that the reports were an effort to make the President look bad. However, the White House has had so many leaks that it’s hard to say that this wasn’t just run of the mill for the administration.
