US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsethdefended the U.S. strike against Iran’s nuclear-rich facilities and said Donald Trump Failure to destroy critical enrichment facilities They can resume operations in just a few months.
But he and Chief of Staff Dan Caine, chairman of Dan Caine, have largely based on the assessment of AI modeling, showcasing test videos of the “Boat Nemesis” bomb used in the strike and citing questions about Fordow’s combat damage assessment.
Hegseth, speaking in the Pentagon briefing room, doubted the preliminary assessment of the defense intelligence agency, noting that it was “preliminary” and “leaked because there was an agenda to try to mess up the waters and make this historic strike look unsuccessful”.
Heggs also said he didn’t know any suggestions Iran Its highly abundant uranium has been moved. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran’s 400 kilograms of stock is no longer 60% rich in uranium.
“I don’t know there is any intelligence…that says things are not places where they should be relocated, moved or otherwise,” Heggs said.
Hegseth also targets the press using information leaked in the report, as the Trump administration says it can publish the results of the preliminary assessment against or even sell individual journalists.
“Rate and again, confidential information is leaked or touted to make the president look bad, and what’s really going on is that you’re destroying the success of our incredible pilots,” Hegss said.
Kane said the attack matched the model developed by the Pentagon, and he said the strike was successful, which he said would destroy the Fowdo site.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims that the U.S. has “no achievements” with Iran’s nuclear sites, and Donald Trump “exaggerated” their influence. His first public comment since the ceasefire Israel was declared.
The country’s foreign minister later called the damage “severe” but added that a detailed assessment is underway. Abbas Araghchi also shut down what he called “speculation” that Tehran would hold new talks with the United States and said “it should not be taken seriously.” He also said a bill to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency is now “binding” after being passed by Iranian MPs and approved by top review bodies.
In a U.S. briefing Thursday, Kane said the two ventilation axes targeted by the strike led to the Fudo underground complex. The first weapons were used to remove concrete covers designed to prevent similar attacks, and then targeted the continuous “bundle nemesis” bombs at the axes on both sides to target the “mission space” where the Iranian centrifuge is located.
These weapons are “built, tested and loaded correctly”; they are “issued with speed and parameters”; and “weapons are pointing to their intended targets and to their designed weapon functions, which means they explode”.
“We evaluated most of the damage based on a wide range of explosion models,” Caine said. “The main killing mechanism in the mission space is a mix of excessive pressure and explosions that tear open tunnels and destroy critical hardware.”
Hegseth and Caine appeared on a day when Trump faced strike issues at a NATO summit in Hague and lashed out at the results of his claim to be the initial intelligence assessment, claiming he devalued the pilots of the attacked B-2 bombers.
The report, published by defense intelligence agencies, said the U.S. strike using 1430,000-pound “Bunker Buster” GBU-57 bombs did not destroy a key component of the nuclear enrichment site and could only withdraw Iran’s nuclear program for a few months.
Senior Trump intelligence official Wednesday Claims are “new evidence” that these sites have been destroyed.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement that new intelligence from “historically reliable” sources suggests that “several Iranian nuclear facilities in Iran are destroyed and must be rebuilt over the years.” National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard also said the “new intelligence” suggests that the three nuclear facilities in Fodo, Natanz and Isfahan will take years to rebuild.
Trump announced that Heggs will present a press conference to “fight for the dignity of our great American pilot.”
“These patriots are very upset!” Trump wrote about the truth social. “After 36 hours of dangerous flight, they landed, they knew success was legendary, and then two days later, they started reading fake news about CNN and The New York Times failed. They were very upset!”
Caine called the operation of Midnight Hammer a codename for a strike against Iran’s nuclear site, the “culmination of an incredible 15 years of work” for officials of the defense threat reduction agency.
“In terms of Fordo, the DTRA team understood in high confidence the elements of the targets needed to kill their function, and the weapons were designed, planned and delivered to ensure they achieved results in the mission area,” Kane said.
However, the Guardian has previously reported that DTRA has introduced senior Pentagon officials to the use of conventional bombs, even as part of a wider strike package of several GBU-57s, Will not penetrate deep underground Moreover, it only causes enough damage to collapse the tunnel and bury the Fordow enrichment site under rubble.
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