US EditionHegseth Lays Into Media over ‘Preliminary’ Iran Damage Assessment
- On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine addressed the media at the Pentagon to provide detailed information on U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities.
- These strikes targeted the Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan facilities following escalating tensions and recent Israeli-Iranian exchanges, with Iran retaliating Monday by missile attacks on a U.S. base in Qatar.
- Hegseth and Caine described using massive ordnance penetrators successfully hitting underground targets, yet assessments about the damage extent remained preliminary and cautious.
- The Israeli Defense Forces claimed the strikes set back Iran's nuclear program by many years, while the Defense Intelligence Agency reported only a short-term setback, prompting Hegseth to accuse media of focusing on 'fake news'.
- The incident prompted the Trump administration to reduce the flow of intelligence information to members of Congress and sparked ongoing debate about the effectiveness of the strikes and Iran's nuclear program.
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