No intelligence Iran moved uranium: US defense chief
At a fiery press conference in the Pentagon, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that Iran was not aware of any intelligence showing that Iran has carried a highly enriched uranium to protect the US nuclear program from US attacks.
US military bombardment aircraft, at the beginning of the local watch ‘Bunker-Buster’ bombs, using bombs against three Iranian nuclear facilities.
The results of the strikes are closely monitored to see how much they can bring Iran’s nuclear program back.
The conference aimed to object to a leaking preliminary assessment, suggesting that strikes from the US Defense Intelligence Agency could only block Iran for months and may have opposed President Donald Trump’s claim of ‘total destruction’.
He also gave Hegset the opportunity to blaspheme the media.
Several experts warned that Iran has probably made a stocketing from the Ford -embedded Ford region before strikes, and that Israel hides it in unknown places by the Nuclear Inspectors of the United States and the UN.
Maxar Technologies, who showed “unusual activity” at Fordow on Thursday and Friday, expressed the satellite images of a long series of vehicles waiting outside the entrance of the facility.
A high -level Iranian source told Reuters on Sunday that most of the highly 60 percent enriched uranium has moved to a place before the attack.
However, Trump argues that it will take long to remove anything.
Trump wrote on the social media platform without evidence. “Cars and small trucks in the area were concrete workers trying to cover the top of the shafts.” Nothing was taken from the facility. “
Referring to European Intelligence evaluations, Financial Times reported that Iran’s highly enriched uranium stocks remained largely intact because they did not concentrate in Fordow.
Hegseth said that the Defense Intelligence Agency assessment was ‘low confidence’ and referring to the comments of CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s comments, and that Iran’s nuclear program was seriously damaged and re -built by intelligence.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Joint Chief of General Staff General Dan Caine, Ratcliffe, Hegseth, a hidden briefing about strikes on Thursday for 100 members of the US Senate.
Senators are expected to vote on a decision that requires congress approval for strikes for Iran this week, but the measure is not expected to come into force.
At the Pentagon News Conference, Hegseth described strikes as “historically successful”.
His comments came after Iran’s high leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, claiming victory in the 12 -day war initiated by Israel and promised that Iran would not surrender.
During the news conference, Hegseth criticized the media for being an anti -Trump prejudice.
Hegseth, “cheering against Trump in your DNA and blood, because you want it not to be so successful,” he said.
“There are many aspects of our brave men and women doing it … This is weakening because of the hatred of press troops,” he said.
Trump praised Hegseth’s news conference as follows: “One of the biggest, most professional and most ‘approved’ news conferences I’ve ever seen!”
During the press conference, Caine, the best US general, summarized the history of shelter bombs used and adhered to technical details. Caine showed a video that tested bombs in a shelter like those who were shot on Sunday.
Caine refused to make his own assessment about the strike and was postponed to the intelligence community. US rejected that it was under any pressure to change its assessment to provide a more optimistic view to its strikes.
