President Trump revealed Wednesday that Israel sent agents to Iran’s bombed nuclear sites to confirm their “total obliteration” — while insisting his surprise attack was too quick for Tehran to have removed its uranium.
Trump was adamant the strikes wiped out Iran’s nuclear facilities and set the program back decades — despite a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment suggesting Tehran could salvage it within months.
“Israel is doing a report on it now, I understand, and I was told that they said it was total obliteration,” Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
President Trump said he believed Iran’s bombed nuclear sites were totally obliterated. POOL/AFP via Getty Images
A photo shows apparent holes from bunker bombs at the Fordow nuclear facility. ©2025 Maxar Technologies“You know they have guys that go in there after the hit, and they said it was total obliteration,” he continued, adding, “I believe it was total obliteration.”
He insisted Iran wouldn’t have been able to remove the uranium being enriched at the sites before he gave the order to drop the barrage of massive bunker-buster bombs on the three sites.
“They didn’t have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast. If it would have taken two weeks, maybe. But it’s very hard to remove that kind of material, very hard and very dangerous for them to remove it,” Trump said.
The Fordow nuclear site appears to show damage, holes from bunker bombs. ©2025 Maxar Technologies“Plus they knew we were coming, and if they know we’re coming, they’re not going to be down there.”
He argued, too, that the strikes had set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back “basically decades” — but wouldn’t rule out launching another attack if Tehran tried to rebuild its program.
“The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. They want to recover, and we won’t let that happen,” he said.
“Number one, militarily, we won’t. I think we’ll end up having somewhat of a relationship with Iran. I see it. Look, I’ve had a relationship over the last four days. They agreed to the cease-fire, and it was a very equal agreement. They both said that’s enough.”
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It comes after the White House trashed a classified Defense Intelligence Agency bomb damage assessment leaked to CNN that claimed Iran could bring back its nuclear program within months.
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“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,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.
A B-2 bomber arrives at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Sunday, June 22, 2025. AP“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 added.
“Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”
