Trump admin officials slam leaked bomb damage assessment indicating Iran could restart nuclear program within months: Completely preposterous

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 within 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. The White House strongly disagrees with the DIA’s preliminary assessment.“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 the Fordow, a facility buried underneath mountains south of Tehran, which was hit by 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators. The DIA reportedly assessed that the entrances to th...