No Known Intelligence That Iran Moved Uranium, Says US Defense Chief

Washington: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was not aware of any intelligence that claims that Iran has mobilized to protect any of the highly enriched uraniums of Iran from US strikes, among the constant questions about Iran’s nuclear program.

US military bombardment aircraft, using more than a dozen 30,000 -pound shelter bombs at the beginning of the local time strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities.

The results of the strikes are closely watched to see how much Iran can bring back Iran’s nuclear program after saying that President Donald Trump has been destroyed.

Hegset, often told a fiery news conference, “I am not aware of an intelligence I have studied, saying that things are not where it should be moved or otherwise,” he said.

Trump, who watched Hegset’s change with journalists, repeated his defense secretary and said it would take long to lift 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. “

A few experts warned that Iran probably carries a highly -enriched uranium stock from the deep -embedded Ford site before strikes and can be stored in unknown places.

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. In a statement to Reuters on Sunday, a high -level Iranian source said that most of the 60% enriched uranium has moved to an unnamed place before the attack.

Where is uranium

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’s comments rejecting such allegations, journalists, Defense Intelligence Agency after a leaked preliminary assessment of the success of the success of the success of the news came in the news briefing.

He said that the assessment is a low confidence and that the CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s comments were passed by the intelligence showing that Iran’s nuclear program was seriously damaged and reconstruction would take years.

The US senators made a briefing by Ratcliffe by Foreign Minister Hegseth on Thursday, and the joint Chief of General Staff General Dan Caine said that the strikes were open to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities, but how much evaluation would take time.

“I will say that after the classified briefing, the President of the Republican Intelligence Committee, the Republican Intelligence Committee, said,” I will say that it is not part of the mission of destroying enriched uraniums or seizing it or anything else. “

Senator Mark Warner, the highest -level intelligence committee Democrat Virginia, said that the only way to be sure of Iran’s nuclear capabilities is that the inspectors are on the ground.

“This was clear, and long before this summary, some of the enriched uranium will never be removed by a bunker-squeak bomb, so some of them remained clear.” He said.

Tulsi Gabbard, who would normally make briefings such as the National Intelligence Director, did not participate. Trump said it was wrong to claim that there was no evidence that Iran had built nuclear weapons last week.

Four officials would inform the House of Representatives on Friday.

Senators are expected to vote for a decision that requires congress approval for strikes that are not expected to enter into force against Iran this week.

At the Pentagon News Conference, Hegseth described strikes as “historically successful”. His comments, Iran’s high leader Ayatullah Ali Khanei, said Iran would hit the American military bases in the Middle East and respond to any future attack.

Khamenei claimed victory after the 12 -day war and promised that Iran would not surrender despite Trump’s calls.

Media ‘Hate’

During the news conference, Hegseth criticized the media for being an anti -Trump prejudice without proof.

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!”

Hegseth thanked Trump for his praise.

During the press conference, Caine, the best US general, largely adhered to technical details and showed a video that tested bombs in a shelter like those who were hit on Sunday.

Caine refused to postpone his own assessment about the strike by postponing it to the intelligence community. USA rejected that it was under pressure to present a more optimistic opinion to its strikes and said that it would not change its assessment because of politics.

Uniform military officials need to remain apolitical.

“I did not put pressure by the president or the secretary to do anything other than telling them exactly what I think of them, and I did exactly that.” He said.