One of the three Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, which was focused on the US air strikes – Ford -site – was “mostly destroyed” last month, which, according to the recent assessment of US intelligence information on considerable delay of Iranian enrichment abilities, postponed Iranian enrichment capabilities of up to two years, NBC News reported.
A report based on interviews with five contemporary and former American officials who are with this matter also noted that two other places – Natanz and Isfahan – have suffered less damage and could be run again in a few months if Iran decides to continue his activities.
“The key facilities for enrichment of Iran were completely and completely smoothed,” President Donald Trump said in the comments after a strike and called the operation of a military success.
Other sites can get back online soon
While the Ford has been strongly affected, the same evaluation shows that the Natanz and Isfahan device was only partially degraded. US officials said these two places could restore the uranium enrichment operations within a few months.
A wider attack plan rejected Trump
The intelligence socket citing one contemporary and two former US officials also said that he learned that the US Central Command created a much larger strike plan against Iran, which included a focus on three more places during a multi -week campaign than in a one -day operation that was eventually performed.
“We were willing to go all the way to our possibilities, but the president did not want,” said one source familiar with the internal planning of NBC News.
Intelligence outputs, which quoted one of the current officials and one of the former officials, Trump decided for a more limited strike because of concerns about potential victims and the desire to avoid deeper entanglement in foreign conflicts.
The rating is still evolving
Officials warned that the current evaluation is only a picture and can change how the collection of intelligence information continues.
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