Trump dismisses Pentagon report, claims Iran’s nuclear sites fully destroyed

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President Donald Trump has asserted that recent U.S. military strikes on Iran resulted in the complete destruction of its nuclear sites, dismissing media reports based on an early Pentagon intelligence assessment that suggest otherwise.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, "The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed," while accusing CNN and The New York Times of working together to “demean one of the most successful military strikes in history,” claiming both outlets are “getting slammed by the public.”

The president’s remarks follow reports citing a classified Pentagon intelligence assessment, which allegedly concluded that two of Iran’s nuclear sites were not destroyed. The evaluation indicated the strikes may have delayed Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months, according to two people familiar with the assessment.

The report also found that essential infrastructure of the nuclear program like centrifuges could be reactivated within months, and much of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium had been relocated before the strikes—potentially to other secret nuclear sites maintained by Iran.

The White House has rejected the intelligence report, calling it “flat-out wrong.” Trump, meanwhile, continues to defend the operation, framing it as a major military success that the media is unfairly downplaying.

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