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The United States was skeptical about the results of the strikes on Iran. What the media is writing

Trump accused the American media of discrediting attacks on targets in Iran
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American intelligence doubts that the strikes on Iran have caused significant damage to its nuclear program and affected key uranium enrichment facilities. US President Donald Trump has denied such conclusions, intending to get approval from NATO partners. What the media write about the consequences of the American attack is in the Izvestia digest.

CNN: The United States has not destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities

According to an early U.S. intelligence assessment, which was shared by seven people with knowledge of it, U.S. military strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the main components of the country's nuclear program. The assessment was conducted by the Pentagon's intelligence unit. It is based on an assessment of combat damage conducted by the US Central Command after the American strikes.

CNN

The analysis of damage to facilities and the impact of strikes on Iran's nuclear ambitions is ongoing and may change as new intelligence becomes available. But the initial findings contradict President Donald Trump's repeated statements that the strikes "completely and definitively destroyed" Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran's nuclear ambitions "have been destroyed."

Two of the people familiar with the assessment said Iran's enriched uranium reserves had not been destroyed. One of the people said that the centrifuges were mostly "untouched." According to another source, intelligence believes that the enriched uranium was removed from the facilities before the strikes. The United States does not yet have a complete picture of the impact of the strikes, and none of the sources described how the assessment of military intelligence correlates with the opinion of other agencies in the intelligence community.

NBC News: Strikes on Iran set back nuclear program for only a few months

According to an initial assessment by the military intelligence agency, the US airstrikes on Iran's uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend were not as effective as Trump claimed, and that they set back the country's nuclear program by just three to six months.

NBC News

"We assumed that the damage would be much more significant than this estimate shows," said one of the three sources. "This assessment already shows that the main parts [of the nuclear program] are still intact."

White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said the intelligence assessment report was inaccurate. According to her, the alleged assessment is completely wrong and was classified. She called the media reports an attempt to humiliate Trump and discredit the pilots who carried out the mission.

The New York Times: Intelligence report reveals Trump's winning spirit in NATO

When Trump arrived in the Netherlands to attend the annual meeting of NATO allies, he desperately tried to preserve the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Iran, swearing and cajoling so that history would remember him for bombing Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend, as well as his mediation in concluding a peace agreement a few days later. But just hours after his landing, a leaked new U.S. intelligence report called into question his repeated claim that American strikes had "destroyed" Iran's nuclear programs.

The New York Times

Trump was looking forward to celebrating his success in NATO and enjoying the fact that he had carried out an attack that none of his predecessors had dared to undertake. His point of view was supported by Mark Rutte, Secretary General of the alliance, who wrote a personal message to Trump thanking him for his "decisive actions" in Iran. "It was really extraordinary, and no one else dared to do it," Rutte wrote. "It makes the situation safer for all of us."

Rutte went on to tell Trump that "he will achieve another great success in The Hague tonight," referring to the alliance's agreement that each country will spend 5% of its GDP on defense, even though they have ten years to reach that mark. This is a major victory for Trump, who has been pushing for Europe to pay more for its defense in recent years.

BBC News: Trump denies media reports of damage to Iran

Trump reacted to reports of a leaked intelligence assessment of the US strike on Iran. In his post on the Truth Social platform, Trump attacked the American media and their reports.

BBC News

"Fake news CNN, along with the failed New York Times, joined forces in an attempt to destroy one of the most successful military strikes in history. Iran's nuclear facilities have been completely destroyed! The public is scolding both the Times and CNN!" [wrote Trump].

Later, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the US president said that all three nuclear facilities in Iran were hit "perfectly" and destroyed. He also added that the American media reports are "extremely disrespectful" towards those who carried out the strikes.

Associated Press: Congress postponed an attempt to impeach Trump over strikes on Iran

The US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to cancel an attempt to impeach President Trump on a single charge of abuse of power after he launched military strikes against Iran without first seeking congressional approval. Many Democrats joined the Republican majority to postpone the measure for later. The final score was 344-79. The initiator of the impeachment was a Democrat from Texas, Al Green.

Associated Press

"I don't enjoy what I'm doing," Green said before the vote. "I'm doing this because no one should have the authority to involve more than 300 million people in a war without consulting the Congress of the United States of America," he said. "I'm doing this because I understand that the constitution will either make sense or it will be meaningless."

The Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives took a cautious position not to criticize Green directly, but also made it clear that their attention was focused on other issues. Pete Aguilar, chairman of the Democratic faction, noted that they should not be distracted from the so-called "big, beautiful" bill on tax breaks proposed by Trump.

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