Yesterday (Wednesday), the White House confirmed that Iran did not transfer its stock of high enriched uranium before the military strike directed by the United States of three nuclear facilities.
President Donald Trump launched a violent attack on American media after it published a secret report of US intelligence, which effectively questioned the military strike carried out by the United States in support of Israel and targeted 3 nuclear sites in Iran; She is Fordo (south of Tehran), Natanz and Isfahan (center).
Since the implementation of these qualitative strikes, Trump has not confirmed that it has resulted in the complete destruction of the three nuclear installations.
However, experts have offered the possibility that Iran had anticipated the attack by emptying these nuclear sites of its inventory of highly enriched uranium, about 400 kilograms of 60 percent uranium.
On Wednesday, Caroline Levitt, a White House spokeswoman, told Fox News: “I assure you that the United States has not received any evidence that high enriched uranium was transferred before strikes,” stressing that the information that otherwise is “wrong reports.”
She added: “As for what is on the sites now, it is buried under huge rubble as a result of the success of Saturday night strikes.”
In turn, John Ratcliffe, Director of the CIA, confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that, according to “reliable information”, the Tehran nuclear program “was severely damaged by the last guided strikes.”
The statement added that “this matter is based on new information from a source/reliable and historical method, indicating that many major Iranian nuclear facilities have been destroyed, and their rebuilding may take several years.”
On Wednesday, Tehran admitted that its nuclear facilities were greatly damaged by the 12 -day Israeli bombing during the war.
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, had told the French TV channel “France-2”, that “the agency is no longer able to monitor this article from the moment of the start of combat actions (…) I do not want to give the impression that (the listed uranium) has been lost or hidden.”
According to a secret document published by the CNN network, on Tuesday, the American strikes only led to the delay of the Iranian nuclear program for only a few months, without its complete destruction, contrary to what Tribe consumed.
The publication of this document sparked Trump’s anger, which in particular announced that Defense Minister Beit Higseth will hold a press conference Thursday morning at eight (12:00 GMT), to “defend the dignity of our great American pilots.”
