White House Says Leaked U.S. Intelligence on Iran Strikes Is ‘Flat-Out Wrong’

The classified assessment found that this weekend’s strikes on Iran “did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months.”

President Donald Trump arrives for a formal dinner ahead of a NATO summit in the Netherlands.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a sharp rebuke Tuesday of a leaked Pentagon report that said the United States’ strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend only set the country’s program back by a few months.

“🚨FAKE NEWS CNN STRIKES AGAIN: This alleged “assessment” is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community,” Leavitt posted on X.

“The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program,” she continued. “Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”