{"id":5513,"date":"2025-06-25T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:34:38","slug":"u-s-military-strikes-did-not-destroy-the-core-components-of-irans-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military strikes did not destroy the core components of Iran&#8217;s\u00a0nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Washington. An early intelligence assessment indicated that the U.S. military strikes on three of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing three people briefed on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">After days of deliberation,\u00a0U.S. forces struck\u00a0Iran&#8217;s three main nuclear sites on Saturday. President Donald Trump said Iran&#8217;s key nuclear enrichment facilities had been completely and &#8220;totally obliterated,&#8221; an assertion he has since repeated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">While over a dozen bombs were dropped on two of the nuclear facilities, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment plant and the Natanz Enrichment Complex, they did not fully eliminate the sites&#8217; centrifuges and highly enriched uranium, CNN reported, citing people familiar with the early assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Citing two people familiar with the assessment, CNN reported that Iran&#8217;s stockpile of enriched uranium had not been destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It said the assessment was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency &#8211; Pentagon&#8217;s intelligence arm &#8211; and is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by the U.S. Central Command after the U.S. strikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The report by the Defense Intelligence Agency estimated that the program was delayed less than six months, the New York Times said in another report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the CNN report in a social media post. &#8220;This alleged &#8220;assessment&#8221; is flat-out wrong and was classified as &#8220;top secret&#8221; but was still leaked to CNN,&#8221; Leavitt said on X. -Reuters\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250625_054316_728.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington. An early intelligence assessment indicated that the U.S. military strikes on three of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing three people briefed on it. After days of deliberation,\u00a0U.S. forces struck\u00a0Iran&#8217;s three main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NAWUISNIMFIBVPYXQLKODSE3FY.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}