Top Intelligence Officials Corroborate Trump’s Claim That Iranian Nuclear Facilities Were Destroyed

On Wednesday afternoon, top intelligence officials in the Trump administration supported the president’s claim that U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend “totally obliterated” their targets. They join a growing chorus of executive-branch appointees who refute Tuesday’s leaked initial assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which said that the strikes set Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon back by only a few months.