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Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) has said that US and Israeli strikes on Iran on Sunday have rendered the Fordow underground enrichment site “inoperable.”In a handout, the IAEC claimed the “devastating” strikes “destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure.”
“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,” the statement said.
The statement was initially shared by the White House and then later released on X by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli assessment contradicts a leaked intelligence report from the US, which suggests that Iran’s nuclear programme has only been set back by a few months and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as US President Donald Trump claimed.
The report issued by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Monday is at odds with statements from Trump and Netanyahu about the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
