Iran strike intel leak

In 2025, after the United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, Donald Trump claimed that all three targeted sites sustained "extremely severe damage and destruction". Natanz nuclear site had been destroyed while Fordow and Isfahan suffered "major damage". However the leak of a classified Defense Intelligence Agency report assessed that damage to Iranian nuclear facilities from U.S. airstrikes didn’t significantly set back Iran’s nuclear program. The report said the US military strikes did not destroy the core components of Iran’s nuclear program, including the centrifuges and the stockpile of enriched uranium, and the damage caused can be fixed in a few months. Per the report, "it is estimated that the attack only set Iran back 'a few months, tops', and that any resumption of its nuclear programme may be based on how long it takes the country to dig out and make repairs." This assessment matches with what Iran said, that the sites sustained "quite superficial" damage with no irreversible harm. The White House said that the leaked U.S. intelligence on Iran Strikes was "Flat-Out Wrong" and that it was classified as "top secret" but was still leaked to CNN by an "anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community". Donald Trump spent the next NATO summit he attended trying to rebut this US intel assessment about strikes on Iran. The White House cited an assessment from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, which said “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.”