Trump’s comments on the intelligence assessment came before a meeting with world leaders at the NATO summit.
Israel accused Iran of violating the ceasefire, and Trump “isn’t happy”
Israel accused Iran of violating it hours after President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
President Donald Trump shrugged the Pentagon rating on Wednesday, suggesting that the US bombing raid may not seriously damage Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Iran and Israel were claiming victory in a short but deadly conflict as they waited to decide whether a ceasefire would be held.
Israeli Prime Minister Minzer Benjamin Netanyahu said his country achieved its target for an attack on Iran by destroying the country’s nuclear program. Trump said he “decapitated” Iran’s nuclear site when he dropped 14 “bunkerbuster” bombs at three facilities.
However, the Pentagon Intelligence Evaluation states that the 30,000-pound weapons won’t reach deep enough to destroy underground facilities, and is likely to delay Iran’s nuclear program in a few months. Trump said Wednesday that intelligence was inconclusive.
“Intellect says we don’t know. That could have been very serious. That’s what the intelligence news suggests,” Trump told reporters earlier when he met with NATO executive director Mark Latte at the NATO summit in the Netherlands. “It was very serious. There was an expungement.”
In Iran, the highest national security council declared that the Islamic Republic’s military response to the attack forced Israel and its Western supporters to unilaterally halt its attack operations. Iranian nuclear official Mohammad Eslami told MEHR News Agency that preparations made ahead of the attack would prevent the suspension of Iran’s nuclear industry.
The radical Israeli attack, which began on June 13, targeted military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment facilities and Iran’s ballistic missile programmes.
The war was expensive. Iranian health minister Mohammad Reza Zafarkandi said more than 600 Iranians had been killed by Israeli missiles. According to the Israeli era, Iran’s missile attacks killed about 30 people, killing about 30 people in Israel, and thousands seriously injured in Israel.
Residents and tourists in some major American cities say they are worried about the possibility of violence erupting at home. At Penn Station in New York, Boston kindergarten teacher Katherine Wagoner told USA Today, a kindergarten teacher waiting for a train home after visiting a friend, that she felt she had fewer travel since the attack in Iran.
“Being in New York feels more like a threat – more like a target,” she says, “I definitely have a lot of privileges, and I don’t necessarily feel like a target, so I can recognize it.
Wagoner’s sentiment was reflected in a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll that surveyed 1,139 US adults nationwide and found that around 79% of respondents responded that “Iran could target our civilians in response to US airstrikes.” Click here for details.
– – Christopher Kang and Michael Collins
The US intelligence community is consistent. I don’t think Iran is building nuclear weapons. US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said a lot when he testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program in March.
The US spy agency said “we will continue to assess Iran as not building nuclear weapons, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not approved the nuclear weapons programme that was stopped in 2003.”
Trump and Netanyahu dismissed the review. Trump doubted the US intelligence reporting agency more than the person responsible for the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi (Saudi Arabia). Meanwhile, Netanyahu has spoken about Iran’s existential nuclear threat to Israel.
Still, I agree with the issue of uranium in the US Intelligence Agency, Trump, Netanyahu and the United Nations nuclear surveillance – the International Atomic Energy Agency – Iran.
All believes that Iran has developed a large stockpile and maintained a nuclear reaction that can be used if it decides to use it in bombs at a well-enriched level. But as General Michael E. Kurira said on June 10, how quickly Iran can “sprint towards nuclear weapons” is also a matter of conflict, with estimates ranging from one week to one year.
—Kim Hjelmgaard
Trump ordered a strike at Iran’s nuclear facility – Operation Midnight Hammer – effectively participated in the war that began on June 13, when Israel began bombing Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure. Israel said it will help the US coordinate and plan the strike.
Trump said all three sites were “completely gone.” However, independent assessments have not yet been performed. The International Atomic Energy Agency – the United Nations nuclear watchdog – has issued a statement that so far has not detected an increase in “off-site radiation levels,” one of the threatening outcomes of a strike.
Contribution: Reuters
