Washington, June 20: A new U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months by U.S. strikes, according to two people familiar with the early assessment who were not authorized to address the report publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The assessment contradicts U.S. President Donald Trump’s statements that Iran’s nuclear program was “completely and fully obliterated” after the strikes. According to the people, the report issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency on Monday found that although Iran’s nuclear sites sustained significant damage, at least some of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was moved prior to the strikes and survived, and Iran’s centrifuges were largely left intact.

Trump’s special Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, said the U.S. airstrikes achieved their objectives and the White House called the assessment “flat-out wrong.”

People’s News Monitoring Service