A satellite tv for pc overview reveals the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Facility, together with harm from June 23 airstrikes, amid the Iran-Israel battle, close to Qom, Iran, June 24, 2025. Photo: Maxar Technologies/Handout through Reuters
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, confirmed Wednesday (June 25, 2025) that the nation’s nuclear amenities had been “badly damaged” in American strikes over the weekend.
Speaking on Al Jazeera, Mr. Baghaei refused to enter element however conceded the strikes on Sunday by American B-2 bombers utilizing bunker-buster bombs had been vital.
“Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure,” he mentioned.
His feedback simply after U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned that the harm to Iranian nuclear websites from missile strikes over the weekend was extreme, although he additionally acknowledged that the obtainable intelligence on the matter was inconclusive.
Reuters and others reported Tuesday that these U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear amenities set again Tehran’s program by solely a matter of months, citing a preliminary U.S. intelligence evaluation by way of sources.
Both Mr. Trump and the White House rejected the evaluation.
“The intelligence was very inconclusive,” Mr. Trump informed reporters earlier than becoming a member of a NATO summit in The Hague. “The intelligence says we don’t know. It could’ve been very severe. That’s what the intelligence suggests.”
Later, throughout the identical spherical of feedback, Mr. Trump argued that Iran’s nuclear deal had been set again “basically decades, because I don’t think they’ll ever do it again”.
The President reiterated on his Truth Social account that the Iranian nuclear websites have been utterly destroyed, whereas the White House pointed Reuters to a press release by spokesperson Karoline Leavitt to CNN, which first reported the evaluation, that the “alleged” conclusion was “flat-out wrong.”
Published – June 25, 2025 05:53 pm IST