What were the real damage of the American strikes decided by Donald Trump against Iran? The Pentagon in turn tried to provide an answer to this question on Wednesday.
“We have delayed their program from at least one to least one to two years, this is what the Ministry’s intelligence services” said, “said Pentagon Senan Parnell spokesperson. “We think it’s probably closer to two years,” he added.
A “annihilated” program, according to Trump
Since the American bombings against the nuclear sites of Fordo, Natanz and Ispahan about ten days ago, in support of the Israeli offensive, the question of their efficiency remains uncertain.
Donald Trump repeats that Tehran’s nuclear program was “destroyed” or delayed “several decades”. His Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth praised at the end of June “a decisive military action” which “created the conditions to end the war” between Israel and Iran. “By decimating, annihilating, destroying-choose the word-Iranian nuclear capacities,” he had hammered.
Standoff between Tehran and AIEA
But a first top secret preliminary report of American intelligence, which the American press reported last week, established that the strikes against Iran had only penalized its nuclear program for a few months, without completely destroying it.
Our file on the Israel -Iran war
Iran has just rejected a request from the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, to visit its bombed nuclear installations, in order to be able to establish what happened to its uranium stock enriched at a level close to the designing threshold of an atomic bomb. The Patron of the AIEA estimated that Tehran had technical capacities to start enriching uranium in “a few months” again.
