Pentagon says US strikes set back Iran nuclear program ‘one to two years’ | US military
At a press conference on Wednesday, the head of the Ministry of Defense, the Pentagon’s three -lock facilities last month as a result of the US strikes of the Iran’s nuclear program returned to about one to two years, he said.
Spokesman Sean Parnell reiterated the claim that Donald Trump had completely destroyed Iran’s key nuclear areas, but he did not provide any more details about the source of assessments beyond saying that he had come from the defense department.
At a press conference in the Pentagon, Parnell said, ık We have reduced its programs for one to two years, ”he said. “At least, Intel evaluations in the department evaluate this.”
Parnell’s statement of strikes showed a more measured prediction than Trump’s claims about the destruction level. A low trust defense intelligence agency (DIA) report based on early evaluations, Iran’s program returned for several months, he said.
The developing picture of the seriousness of the damage caused by Iran’s nuclear program uses materials that show that the facility itself has been destroyed even if it is unclear whether the facility itself is carved.
Trump consultants used this material, including two people familiar with the issue, centrifuges and other Israeli Intel, including the use of the video taken from the B-2 bombardment aircraft to verify the simulation models of shock waves that destroy Intel from outside.
The scope of the damage to the nuclear program of Iran and the fate of the enriched uranium stock, which can be rapidly turned into a raw nuclear weapon, can dictate how long the program has returned.
The UN Nuclear Guard President said on Sunday that Iran could produce enriched uranium in a few months.
“Iran is a very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology… You cannot recover the information you have or your capacities.” He said.
Guardian’s front -scale assessment of the Pentagon after a little longer than 24 hours of strikes before the strikes, the damage may have to leave for future use so that Iran can restart the facility with new centrifuges.
The DIA report evaluated that the program was pushed back for several months, but this finding was made at the level of “low confidence”, and reflected the premature nature of the assessment and the uncertainty intelligence organizations were related to the first results.
Trump consultants pushed the DIA report back and said that the destruction of centrifuges has removed an important component of Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons and delayed the nuclear program for years.
The wars on the results of the intelligence organizations are at the center of American foreign policy findings to claim that the leakage of a Chinese laboratory used by the Iraqi administration to justify the 2003 invasion was found to be wrong later.
Nevertheless, most of the discussions about US strikes claim that no intelligence agency does not repeat directly because there is no characterization in intelligence assessments, claiming that Trump “destroyed” the nuclear areas of Iran.
After Iran has set a new law to suspend cooperation with IAEA, it was made more difficult to verify the scope of the damage on Wednesday. Iran accused the nuclear nuclear guard for Western countries and provided a reason for Israel’s air strikes.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the movement as “unacceptable ve, and said that Iran should fully comply with the obligations of nuclear non -sergean treaties, including providing information about the Nuclear material that has not been explained to IAEA and providing unlimited access to any newly announced enrichment facility.
