President Donald Trump revealed that Israel dispatched agents to assess the aftermath of recent U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities — and concluded they were “totally obliterated.”
Speaking at the NATO summit in the Netherlands, Trump said the Israeli operatives confirmed the destruction caused by a surprise strike that he claims set back Iran’s nuclear program by decades.
“Israel is doing a report on it now,” Trump told reporters. “I was told they said it was total obliteration.”
Trump dismissed concerns that Iran might have salvaged any enriched uranium, saying the strikes came too quickly for Tehran to remove anything from the targeted sites.
“They didn’t have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast. It’s very hard and dangerous for them to remove that kind of material,” he said.
Images released post-strike showed significant damage to sites like the Fordow enrichment facility, with visible craters reportedly from U.S. bunker-buster bombs.
Trump emphasized that Iran’s nuclear capabilities were not only destroyed but also that the U.S. was prepared to act again if Tehran attempted to rebuild.
“The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. We won’t let that happen,” he said. “Militarily, we won’t. I think we’ll end up having some kind of relationship with Iran. Over the last four days, they agreed to a cease-fire. It was a fair agreement.”
His remarks follow controversy over a leaked U.S. intelligence report suggesting Iran could restart its program within months. The White House dismissed the leak, calling it “flat-out wrong.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized the report as an attempt to discredit both the president and U.S. military operations. “Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration,” she said.
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