While U.S. officials claim Iran’s nuclear program will take decades to recover, other reports are stating the damage is not so bad.
Now, an investigation is underway to determine who from the Trump administration is leaking bad information, The Hill reported.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the investigation into who is leaking a preliminary classified report that the damage to Iran’s nuclear sites is not bad.
“Of course we’re doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes, battle damage assessments,” Hegseth said. “And CNN and others are trying to spin it to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success.”
Hegseth was talking with reporters at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
President Donald Trump called media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and NBC “scum” for reporting the classified report. The president said the Saturday strikes led to a “total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear sites.
The internal report noted the three facilities hit are delayed a few months. The report also said Iran moved its enriched uranium before the strikes hit, many outlets reported.
“They really don’t know,” Trump said regarding the report. “I think Israel is gonna be telling us very soon because [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is going to have people Involved in that whole situation.”
The president compare the strikes to dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II.
“This was an unbelievable hit by genius pilots and genius people in the military, and they’re not being given credit for it because we have scum that’s in this room. And not all of you are… CNN is scum. MSDNC is scum. The New York Times is scum. They’re bad people. They’re sick,” the president said. “And what they’ve done is they’re trying to make this unbelievable victory into something less.”
Steve Witkoff, the administration’s special envoy for Middle East affairs, told Fox News Tuesday that the leak of the internal report was “treasonous.”
