Iranian government officials in a telephone call said that US military attacks against their nuclear facilities were not as harmful or extensive as expected, without alminating the narrative of the Trump administration that “they destroy in a site and totally and totally. The Washington Post First reported the call, citing four people with American intelligence on the matter.
In the conversation that, Meeant, the private officials of the Iranian government asked why the attacks did not cause a more generalized destruction.
The administration in a statement from the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt Essentialy, confirmed the existence of the call, but described the reports of the “shameful” newspaper.
“It is shameful that The Washington Post He is helping people commit serious crimes by publishing out of context leaks, “Leavitt said.” The notion that unidentified Iranian officials know what happened under hundreds of feet or debris makes no sense. Your nuclear weapons program is over. ”
The US army addressed nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan and definitely caused damage, Althegh, how much damage is under debate among the intelligence community.
The news of the call broke the same day in an interview with Donald Trump transmitted where the president Threatened with the Democratic Legislators of the prison Who says Filtered intelligence information. Hey also said that his administration would demand that the journalists who reported on the leaks reveal their sources.
“We can find out [who leaked the intelligence]”Trump said in Fox News” Sunday morning. “If you want, we can find out easy. You go up and tell the journalist,” National Security, who gave it [to you]? ‘You have to do that, and I suspect we will do things like that. “
Trump in these comments refers to journalists from CNN and The New York Times. Both points of sale reported a summary of filtering intelligence of the Pentagon that concluded that the bombings closed the tickets to two facilities, but that the structures below remained intact. The attacks are only established IranNuclear program MONTHS OF BACKAccording to the report, contradicting the statements of the administration that its facilities were completely destroyed.
“It turned out, no, it was erased as nobody had seen before,” Trump said in the interview that was broadcast on Sunday. “And that means the end of its nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time.”
