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An initial classified evaluation found the US. strikes In Iranian nuclear facilities they delayed Tehran’s nuclear program in a matter of months, according to three sources familiar with their contents.

The evaluation, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon Military Intelligence Wing, said the attacks caused the entries to two nuclear enrichment facilities, included Fordbe sealed. The resumption of the enrichment program can be determined for how long they will have to clear the entries and make repairs to electrical and water supplies, two sources familiar with the reports of the report said.

The evaluation of the day also indicates that part of Iran’s enriched uranium storage moved before the strikes, said one of the sources.

The officials familiar with the report warned that it was an early evaluation that could change as there is more information available on the sites. It was not clear immediately at what confidence level they were included in the report.

A complete evaluation of the battle damage is still being gathered, said the president of the Joints of Cabinet Joints on Sunday, General Dan Caine, in a press availability.

“The final battle damage will take some time, but the initial battle damage evaluations indicate that the three sites suffered extremely severe damage and destruction,” Caine said.

President Trump saying In a speech to the nation, following the attacks that “Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have been totally erased.”

He United States Air Force Several bombs of 30,000 pounds fell in the enrichment facilities of Uranium of Fordo, local time on Sunday morning. But the evaluation of the day found that the enrichment infrastructure of the site, which is located hundreds of feet under a mountain, is so deep underground that it remains largely intact, said a source.

The evaluation provides a range of possibilities of how long they will take to recover access to underground facilities and resume their work, from a few months to less than a year, the source told News themezone. The source added that Trump administration officials were warned before the strike that this was a possible result.

The evaluation was based on satellite images and indicates intelligence, which is obtained from the communications of Iranian officials, said one of the sources.

Current and previous national security officials have expressed concern that leaving Iran with any waste nuclear capabilities, including access to uranium already enriched at 60% and work centrifugers, could intensify and accelerate the determination of the regime to create a work weapon.

CNN previously reported some of the details contained in the evaluation of the day.

The White House has retreated the findings. The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, described the “incorrect” evaluation and said it was filtered “by an anonymous loser of low level in the intelligence community.”

“The escape of this supposed evaluation is a clear attempt to degrade President Trump and discredit the brave combat pilots who made a perfectly executed mission to destroy Iran’s nuclear program,” Leavitt said. “Everyone knows what happens when fourteen bombs of 30,000 pounds perfectly in their objectives: total obliteration.”

Mr. Trump criticized reports on the evaluation of the day in a social publication of truth, writing: “The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed!”

The Pentagon was also stopped by the previous statement of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that the strikes had “erased” the nuclear capabilities of Iran.

“The impact of these bombs is buried under a mountain of debris in Iran; so anyone who says that the bombs were not devastating is only trying to undermine the president and the successful mission,” Hegseth said in a statement.

In an interview with “The Ingraham Angle” by News, the envoy of the Middle East of Trump, Steve Witkoff, described the launch of the “Traiguous” Dia report. He said “we know a fact” that Natanz’s site was destroyed and said of the Fordo’s strike: “There is no doubt that it was erased.”

Witkoff also said that “it will be almost impossible for them to resurrect that program,” adding: “It will take a period of years.”

An informative session classified for Congress on the actions of the administration in Iran was canceled that had been scheduled for Tuesday. On the other hand, Senate legislators will be informed by the main intelligence and military officers on Thursday, a congress assistant famous with the plan told News themezone. On Friday a similar informative session will be held for the house, according to the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.

Trump ordered strikes on Saturday at the enrichment sites of Uranium of Fordo and Natanz de Iran, as well as in a nuclear research center in Isfahan. The operation – done With B-2 bombers and cruise missile counterattacks. TO cease-fire Between Israel and Iran entered into force on Tuesday and seems to be holding.

The strikes were destined to hinder Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has increased its highly enriched uranium arsenal in recent months, which caused concerns that it would advance towards a weapon.

American intelligence agencies have evaluated that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. The same day that Mr. Trump authorized the strikes on Saturday, an American agency judged That Iran could make a nuclear weapon in just three to eight months, but there were no indications that the country’s supreme leader had authorized an effort to do so, News themezone reported. Other intelligence agencies in the United States have said that Iran would need a minimum of six to eighteen months to create a weapon they could offer successfully.

But Israel alleged that Iran is “running towards a nuclear bomb,” and Trump said last week that he believed he was “very close to having one.” Iran has insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful.

Eleanor Watson, Alan him and Cristina Corujo contributed to this report.

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