Leftists Leak a Classified DIA Assessment of the Damage to the Iran Nuke Sites to Embarass Trump

Endless treason. Endless.

Trump administration officials on Tuesday slammed a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment of the damage done to Iran's nuclear facilities by weekend US airstrikes that the president has touted as a massive success.

The classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) bomb damage assessment -- deemed a "low confidence" estimation of the effectiveness of Saturday's strikes on the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz sites -- reportedly determined that Iran could bring its nuclear program back online as quickly as one to two months, according to Fox News.

On the high end, estimates indicate that Iran could restart uranium enrichment within a year, according to those who viewed the DIA report.

CNN, which first reported on the leaked classified document, noted that assessments are ongoing and could change, but the DIA believes Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed by the "bunker buster" bombs dropped on the nuclear facilities.

"This alleged 'assessment' is flat-out wrong and was classified as 'top secret' but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.

"The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program," she added.

"Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration," Leavitt argued.

The assessment was reportedly based on satellite images and electronic communications that have been intercepted since the strikes.

The report focuses on the damage done to Fordow, a facility buried under mountains south of Tehran, which was hit by 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators.

The DIA reportedly assessed that the entrances to the facility caved in as a result of the strike, and that some infrastructure was destroyed, but that the Iranians could still dig out, repair or rebuild the site.

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"Fordow is the last enrichment reactor that was operating there, and we put 12 bunker-buster bombs on Fordow. There's no doubt that it breached the canopy. There's no doubt that it was well within reach of the depth that these bunker-buster bombs go to, and there's no doubt that it was obliterated."

So according to the Deep State, Iran was simultaneously not building a nuclear bomb and able to quickly build a nuclear bomb in a few months.

"Intelligence" is whatever a communist traitor needs it to be at any given moment.

Trump says that leak was -- besides being an act of treason -- misleading, as the leaked report is preliminary and incomplete.

He cited Israel's own assessment of the effectiveness of the strike.

Israel confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear site over the weekend caused severe damage, rendering the facility "inoperable." Israeli officials say the operation has significantly delayed Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Key Details:

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said the U.S. strike destroyed key infrastructure at Fordow and crippled Iran's uranium enrichment capability at the site.

The statement, delivered on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, concluded that combined U.S. and Israeli strikes have set Iran's nuclear weapons program back "by many years."

President Trump praised the success of the operation during remarks at the NATO summit in Brussels, calling it a "joint Israeli-American victory" and likening it to Israel's decisive 1967 Six Day War.

Diving Deeper:

On Wednesday, the Israeli government released an official statement confirming that a U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility had effectively shut down operations at the controversial site. The announcement came shortly after President Donald Trump previewed the findings during a press conference at the NATO summit in Brussels, noting that Israeli intelligence would provide details on the mission's results.

"The devastating U.S. strike on Fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable," read the statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The report concluded that the joint American and Israeli military campaign had "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years."

Officials added that this delay in Iran's nuclear capabilities could continue "indefinitely," provided Tehran is prevented from obtaining new sources of nuclear material.

"All of the evidence of what was just bombed, by twelve 30,000-pound bombs, is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep."

That from Twitchy.

posted by Ace at 01:14 PM

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