Hegseth defends Iran strike amid doubts over Trump’s ‘obliteration’ claims | Pete Hegseth

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the US attacks on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, and Donald Trump said that despite the first intelligence assessments that last week’s strikes could not destroy the basic enrichment facilities last week, he could continue to operations in the country’s nuclear program and continued operations in months.

However, Dan Caine, the president of the partner, shows the test videos of the “shelter buster” bombs used in strikes, and showed questions about Fordow’s intelligence community about war damage assessment.

Speaking from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Hegseth aroused doubt about the first assessment of the Defense Intelligence Agency, “front” and “leaked because someone had a agenda to mud water and make this historical strike look like it was not successful”.

Hegset also said that Iran is not aware of any intelligence claiming that Iran has carried any of its highly enriched uraniums. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran’s 400kg 60% enriched uranium stock can no longer be announced.

“I am not aware of any intelligence… He says that there is no place to be moved or otherwise,” hegset said.

Hegset also aimed to use leaked information in reports because he stated that he could target or even dismiss individual journalists to publish the results of the first assessment.

“Over again, the classified information is leaked or sold for political purposes to make the president look bad, and it is to undermine the success of our incredible pilots.”

Caine, as long as the attacks match a model developed by Pentagon, Fordow foresee the destruction of the site, he said.

Iran’s high leader Ayatullah Ali Khanenei claimed that the United States “nothing failed to” anything “in Iran’s nuclear areas, and that Donald Trump” exaggerated “in the first public opinion since the declaration of Israel with a ceasefire.

The country’s Foreign Minister later described the damage as “serious, but added that a detailed assessment continued. Abbas Araghchi closed what Tehran was on the table for new talks with the United States and said that he was a “speculation ve and said,“ It should not be taken seriously ”. He also said that a bill suspended cooperation with IAEA was “binding önce after passing by Iranian deputies and approved by a senior veterinarian.

During the US briefing on Thursday, Caine said that strikes targeted two ventilation shafts to the Fordow underground complex. The first weapons were used to demolish concrete covers designed to prevent a similar attack, and then the successive “shelter” bombs targeted the shafts on both sides to target the “task area ğı with Iranian centrifuges.

Weapons “built, tested and installed properly”; “Released in speeds and parameters”; And “all of them were directed to their intended goals and the target points that were designed for the intended weapons, ie they exploded”.

“The majority of the damage we evaluate is based on the comprehensive modeling of the explosion,” Caine said. “The primary killing mechanism in the task was a mixture of excessive pressure and explosion in open tunnels and destroyed critical equipment.”

Hegseth and Caine’s appearance arrived a day after Trump encountering questions about the strike at a NATO summit in The Hague, and attacked journalists for publishing the results of the first intelligence assessment that he claimed to have humiliated the pilots of the B-2 bombardment planes leading the attack.

The report, published by the Defense Intelligence Agency, said that the US strike did not destroy the basic components in nuclear enrichment areas using 14 30,000 LB “Bunker Buster” bombs and probably did not bring the Iran’s nuclear program back just a few months.

Senior Trump Intelligence officials on Wednesday He claimed that the sites were “new evidence önemli showing that the sites were destroyed.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement, a “historically reliable yalık source, the new intelligence of the new intelligence,” several lock Iranian nuclear facilities have been destroyed and should be rebuilt over the years, “he said. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said that “new intelligence ında showed that the rebuilding of three nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan will take years.

Trump announced that hegseth would give a press briefing to “fight for the dignity of our great American pilots”.

“These patriots were very upset!” Trump wrote on real Social. “They made up to 36 hours of dangerously on the enemy territory, they knew that success was legendary, and then two days later, CNN and the unsuccessful New York Times began to read false news. They felt a lot!”

Caine, the code name of the strike against the Iran nuclear areas, the defense threat reduction agency by the civil servants called the “15 -year -old incredible work” Operation “.

“In the Fordow, the DTRA team understood the elements necessary to kill the target functions with a high degree of confidence and designed to enable them to reach the effects of the task,” Caine said.

Nevertheless, Guardian previously reported to DTRA’s senior Pentagon officials, even as a part of a wider strike of a few GBU-57, would not deeper deeply penetrated underground, and only damage to the underground and only damage to bury the Fordow enrichment area under the rubble.