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CIA manager John Ratcliffe said Iran would take years to rebuild the atomic program after US attacks on uranium enrichment plants.His comments appeared after days of uncertainty as to the degree of the harm in the facilities in Natanz, Fordow and Isfahana, which were attacked on June 22 by American bombs destroying bunkers.
"CIA can confirm that a collection of reliable intelligence information indicates Iran's atomic programme has been severely damaged by fresh targeted attacks" “ Ratcliffe said in a message on Wednesday."This includes fresh intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that respective key Iranian atomic facilities have been destroyed and will should be rebuilt over the years" “He added.While US president Donald Trump and defence Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed attacks “destroyed’ Iran's ability to produce atomic weapons, US media later reported that harm may have been exaggerated.Early assessments of the Pentagon defence Intelligence Agency suggested that the attack did not destruct the basic elements of the Iranian atomic program and delayed it only by a fewer months, according to many sources citing sources acquainted with the results.However, Israeli officials told Axios that the attacks had caused "very significant" damage.Trump accused the media of trying “humiliation’ attacks that he later compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki's atomic bombings during planet War II.The United States participated in the Israeli bombing campaign, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as an effort to prevent Iran from gaining atomic weapons.Tehran, who denies having a military atomic program, promised to proceed enriching uranium for investigation and civilian purposes.
Russia condemned the attacks and accused the West of spreading disinformation on Iran's atomic activities.
Translated by Google Translator
Source:https://www.rt.com/news/620550-cia-iran-nuclear-sites/
