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A president lying the country into war, again [View all]
Peter Baker @peterbakernytTrump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."
Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."
07/19/25
Trump doubles down on claim Iran strike ‘completely destroyed’ nuclear sites
“All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service and, if Iran wanted to do so, they would be much better off starting anew, in three different locations, prior to those sites being obliterated, should they decide to do so,” Trump said in a Saturday morning post on Truth Social.
A new intelligence assessment, reported by multiple news outlets on Thursday, indicates that Iran’s nuclear enrichment site in Fordow was mostly destroyed during the June 21 strikes, but the two other principal sites — Natanz and Isfahan — were not and could potentially resume enriching uranium if Tehran greenlights it.
The Defense Department, along with the White House, pushed back on the assessment, contending that the airstrikes, carried out by B-2 bombers and submarines firing Tomahawk cruise missiles, destroyed all three facilities.
“The credibility of the Fake News Media is similar to that of the current state of the Iranian nuclear facilities: destroyed, in the dirt, and will take years to recover,” the department’s chief spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. “President Trump was clear and the American people understand: Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz were completely and totally obliterated.”
“There is no doubt about that,” he added.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5409923-trump-iran-nuclear-facilities-destroyed/
Trump doubles down on claim Iran strike ‘completely destroyed’ nuclear sites
“All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service and, if Iran wanted to do so, they would be much better off starting anew, in three different locations, prior to those sites being obliterated, should they decide to do so,” Trump said in a Saturday morning post on Truth Social.
A new intelligence assessment, reported by multiple news outlets on Thursday, indicates that Iran’s nuclear enrichment site in Fordow was mostly destroyed during the June 21 strikes, but the two other principal sites — Natanz and Isfahan — were not and could potentially resume enriching uranium if Tehran greenlights it.
The Defense Department, along with the White House, pushed back on the assessment, contending that the airstrikes, carried out by B-2 bombers and submarines firing Tomahawk cruise missiles, destroyed all three facilities.
“The credibility of the Fake News Media is similar to that of the current state of the Iranian nuclear facilities: destroyed, in the dirt, and will take years to recover,” the department’s chief spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. “President Trump was clear and the American people understand: Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz were completely and totally obliterated.”
“There is no doubt about that,” he added.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5409923-trump-iran-nuclear-facilities-destroyed/
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