The latest intelligence from both Iran and Israel proves that President Donald Trump was right about the airstrikes obliterating the Iranians' nuclear facilities, and CNN, which reported otherwise, is wrong.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a report on Wednesday on X from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, which stated that "The devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable."
"We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years," it added. "The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material."
Iran and Israel agree — the precision strikes obliterated the Iranian regime’s nuclear facilities pic.twitter.com/97cJvVn6bf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 25, 2025
In a second post, Leavitt provided the following quote from Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei:
"Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that's for sure."
Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 25, 2025
🧵WHAT THEY ARE SAYING:
Israel Atomic Energy Commission:
“The devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility…
In a third, she shared what International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said about the attack: "Given the explosive payload utilized, and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred."
"At the Esfahan nuclear site, additional buildings were hit, with the US confirming their use of cruise missiles," Grossi added. "Affected buildings include some related to the uranium conversion process. Also, at this site, entrances to tunnels used for the storage of enriched material appear to have been hit. At the Natanz enrichment site, the Fuel Enrichment Plant was hit, with the US confirming that it used ground-penetrating munitions."
A White House Press Release that included the comments listed above also called out outlets like CNN for its Fake News attacking the president after he said, "Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!"
RedState reported that the legacy media outlets worked double-time to shut down any success of the operation, reporting that CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand, who "exposed" the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation" story, was the same one who had now claimed Iran's nuclear program had not been destroyed.
CNN claimed:
The US military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it.
Ward Clark went on:
The four people are not named, of course. One wonders if they're the same leakers who broke the "Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation" story to CNN, to this same reporter. Sometimes, coincidences are just coincidences - but here?
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Speaking from the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Trump also slammed the Fake News for making our brave pilots look bad after the successful operation to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities.
.@POTUS on the obliteration of the Iranian regime's nuclear facilities: "The pilots did an unbelievable job like nobody's ever seen. They hit paydirt." pic.twitter.com/tN8NoVKB18
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 25, 2025
"The pilots did an unbelievable job like nobody's ever seen. They hit paydirt," the president told the press. "They should be admired and respected for what they did. And the Fake News, in order to try to hit me, the Fake News made them look bad. But now they look really good again."
CNN also recently tried to claim that Trump had somehow notified GOP leaders ahead of the airstrikes but not Democratic ones "until after the bombs had dropped." They then had to edit the headline after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt set the record straight, RedState reported.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.
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