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Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Doesn't Like U.S. Intel on Iran Strike So Uses Israeli Report Instead
The White House made the unusual move of releasing a statement from Israel that appears to contradict intelligence from a Pentagon agency about the U.S. strikes on Iran The administration has vehemently criticized a leaked preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment that the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities may not have been as devastating as Donald Trump claimed. On Tuesday, the White House issued a statement from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) as it continued to insist the strikes obliterated three Iranian targets. Speaking in the Netherlands, the president also read the statement from Israel aloud as he complained about the leaked intelligence and attacked the media for reporting on it. 'The devastating strike on Fordo destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable,' the IAEC statement read. 'We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years,' it continued. Israel pressured Trump to carry out the strikes before the mission, as the U.S. was the only country capable of bombing the Fordo nuclear site with its 'bunker busters.' The president on Wednesday repeatedly insisted the leaked intelligence was preliminary and they did not know, but he did not dispute what was in it. His own argument raises questions as to why the president himself announced the sites had been obliterated so soon after the strikes without further information. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine on Sunday said it was too early to tell the extent of the damage. That initial assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency within the Pentagon suggested the strikes did not completely destroy the facilities and that the enriched uranium could have been moved, but Trump stood by his Saturday night remarks. 'It was so devastating actually. If you look at Hiroshima, if you look at Nagasaki, you know that ended a war too. This ended a war in a different way, but it was so devastating,' Trump said of the strikes. When asked whether the U.S. was relying on Israeli intelligence, Trump said he was not and also pointed to a statement from Iran. 'The document said it could be very severe damage, but they didn't take that. They said it could be limited or it could be very severe,' Trump said of the initial U.S. intel report. The president claimed that since then, they have also collected additional information and spoken to people who have seen the site, but he did not provide further evidence. 'The site is obliterated, and we think everything nuclear is down there,' Trump claimed. It comes as briefings with the House and Senate on the strikes on Tuesday were abruptly canceled, raising questions from Democrats over whether the intelligence disputed the president's claims on Iran. Those briefings are now scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Trump officials, including the president, on Wednesday also suggested the media reports on the preliminary intelligence were attacks on the military and pilots who carried out the daring mission. However, none of the reports demeaned the brave men and women who carried out the operationally successful mission, but shared the early assessment that the damage was limited and only set back the program months.
Al Arabiya
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Iran-Israel ceasefire holds amid doubt over extent of damage to Iran's nuclear sites
In this episode of Global News Today, presented by Tom Burges Watson, we bring you the latest as the Iran-Israel ceasefire holds after 12 days of war. We also look at competing claims over whether US and Israeli strikes caused real damage to Iran's nuclear facilities. Guests: General Joseph Votel – Former Commander of U.S. Central Command and Retired Four Star General David Hale – Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and former US Special Envoy for Peace in the Middle East
Reuters
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
US and Iran disagree on scale of damage to nuclear facilities from US strikes, Kremlin aide says
MOSCOW, June 25 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran disagree when it comes to how much damage U.S. air strikes caused to Iranian nuclear facilities, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday. Ushakov said Moscow welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and hoped it lasted and noted what he said were differing assessments of the impact of the U.S. attack. "The one that carried out the strikes believes significant damage was inflicted. And the one who received these strikes believes that everything was prepared in advance and that these objects did not suffer excessive, significant damage," Ushakov told reporters. A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry said earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. strikes had caused significant damage to Tehran's nuclear facilities. Earlier in the day, the Kremlin had said it thought it was too early for anyone to have an accurate picture of the extent of damage caused.
The Guardian
25-06-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Trump news at a glance: profanity and push-back over success of Iran strikes
The US president's shocking outburst at Iran and Israel capped a drama-filled 24 hours for Donald Trump, America, the Middle East and the world. As both sides defied his ceasefire, Trump lashed out, his anger and frustration clearly visible as he swore on live television. Trump later called Israel's prime minister to demand he stop bombing Iran. With the fragile ceasefire seeming to hold, there was some unwelcome news via a report from the Pentagon, which said the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were not quite as successful as Trump had claimed. Here are the key stories at a glance: Donald Trump reacted furiously after an Israel-Iran ceasefire he brokered and took credit for was violated within a few hours. 'Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen,' he said, in the strongest-worded public rebuke of Israel of any US president in history. 'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing.' Read the full story An initial classified US assessment of Donald Trump's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend says they did not destroy two of the sites and likely only set back the nuclear program by a few months, according to two people familiar with the report. The report produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency – the intelligence arm of the Pentagon – concluded key components of the nuclear program including centrifuges were capable of being restarted within months. Read the full story The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency is continuing to arrest an increasing number of immigrants without any criminal history, according to recent federal government data reviewed by the Guardian, demonstrating a further dramatic surge in this trend. The latest available data, released by Ice last Friday, appears to contradict Trump administration officials' frequent assertions that the agency is prioritizing the pursuit of criminals in its immigration enforcement operations. Read the full story The Federal Reserve is well placed to wait and see how tariffs affect US prices before cutting interest rates, its chair, Jerome Powell, insisted, defying renewed demands from Donald Trump. The US president has disregarded the central bank's longstanding independence to repeatedly call for rate cuts to spur economic growth and launch a series of personal attacks on Powell. Read the full story Emil Bove, the Department of Justice's principal associate deputy attorney general, who Donald Trump nominated for the US court of appeals for the third circuit, reportedly said the department 'would need to consider telling the courts 'fuck you'' when it came to orders blocking the deportation of undocumented people. Read the full story New Yorkers headed to the polls in a primary election that is both likely to decide the city's next mayor and have major political implications for the future of the Democratic party. The race pits two drastically different Democrats against one another. Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist endorsed by the progressive wing of the Democratic party, is the main challenger to Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who has been backed by the party's centrists and billionaire donors. Read the full story Trump shared a private text message from Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, which said: 'You are flying into another big success,' as he travelled to the Nato summit. A US marine veteran said he feels 'betrayed' after immigration agents beat and arrested his father at his landscaping job. A jury awarded $500,000 to the widow of a police officer who killed himself nine days after he helped defend the US Capitol during the 2021 riot. The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, the US agriculture secretary announced. Catching up? Here's what happened on 24 June 2025.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
How the U.S. Bombing of Iran's Nuclear Facilities Unfolded
As the U.S. deployed decoy B-2 bombers west over the Pacific, military officials quietly sent a 'strike package' east over the Atlantic to hit nuclear facilities in Iran. WSJ breaks down Operation Midnight Hammer. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
