Iran’s Foreign Ministry publicly admitted for the first time Wednesday that its nuclear sites were “badly damaged” by the American bunker-busting bombs.
The ministry did not elaborate on the full extent of the damage. However, its admission comes as the White House trashed a leaked, “low confidence” preliminary intelligence assessment that claimed the strikes were not severe and potentially only set Iran’s program back by months.
Iran admitted that US bunker-buster bombs “badly damaged” their nuclear sites. ©2025 Maxar Technologies Aerial view of the damaged Iranian nuclear site in Isfahan. IDF/GPO/SIPA/Shutterstock
President Trump has maintained that Iran suffered “total obliteration” from the bombing over the weekend and was adamant Wednesday that it set Iran back “basically decades.”
“Israel is doing a report on it now,
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