White House Press Release - CNN Spews Fake News Based on Leaked Low-Confidence Intel

TOP LINE: President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the "12-day-war." The precision strikes perfectly hit their targets and destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities, resulting in the total obliteration of Iran's ability to create a nuclear weapon. Parts of this inconclusive, low-confidence intelligence assessment were leaked to Fake News CNN to undermine the President and more egregiously, disparage the brave pilots who successfully conducted this mission.
BOTTOM LINE: Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: Total Obliteration.

THE FACTS:

1. Intel assessments are a snapshot analysis based on limited intel from one moment in time. This particular assessment, parts of which leaked from someone clearly trying to undermine the President, was based on intel from ONE DAY after the strike
2. The assessment admits it was NOT coordinated with the intel community
3. The assessment acknowledged it was a low-confidence level report with several gaps in information
4. The CNN reporter who wrote this Fake News story -- Natasha Bertrand -- is the SAME reporter who wrote the original story alleging the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian Disinformation"

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING:

The DIA: "This is a preliminary, low confidence report and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available. We are working with the appropriate authorities to investigate the unauthorized disclosure of classified information."

Israel Atomic Energy Commission: "The devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable," said the statement, which the White House distributed. "We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years. The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material."

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir: "I can say here that the assessment is that we significantly damaged the nuclear program, and I can also say that we set it back by years, I repeat, years."

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei: "Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that's for sure."

Vice President JD Vance: "President Trump has obliterated the Iranian nuclear program. The American media seems destined to obliterate their own credibility on this fake story."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: "Based on everything we have seen — and I've seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran's ability to create nuclear weapons. Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission."

Secretary Hegseth: "Given the 30,000 pounds of explosions and the capability of those munitions, it was DEVASTATION underneath Fordow … Any assessment that tells you otherwise is speculating with other motives."

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan "Razin" Caine: "Initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction. More than 125 US aircraft participated in this mission, including B2 stealth bombers, multiple flights of fourth and fifth generation fighters, dozens and dozens of air refueling tankers, a guided missile submarine, and a full array of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as hundreds of maintenance and operational professionals."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio: "The Iranian program — the nuclear program — today looks nothing like it did just a week ago ... That story is a false story and it's one that really shouldn't be re-reported because it doesn't accurately reflect what's happening."

Secretary Rubio: "Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape … There's no way Iran comes to the table if somehow nothing had happened. This was complete and total obliteration. They are in bad shape. They are way behind today compared to where they were just 7 days ago because of what President Trump did."

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff: "We put 12 bunker buster bombs on Fordow. There's no doubt that it breached the canopy, there's no doubt that it was well within reach of the depth that these bunker buster bombs go to, and there's no doubt that it was obliterated — so the reporting out there that in some way suggests that we did not achieve the objective is just completely preposterous."

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: "The operation was a resounding success. Our missiles were delivered precisely and accurately, obliterating key Iranian capabilities needed to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon."

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi: "Given the explosive payload utilized, and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred. At the Esfahan nuclear site, additional buildings were hit, with the US confirming their use of cruise missiles. Affected buildings include some related to the uranium conversion process. Also at this site, entrances to tunnels used for the storage of enriched material appear to have been hit. At the Natanz enrichment site, the Fuel Enrichment Plant was hit, with the US confirming that it used ground-penetrating munitions."

Institute for Science and International Security President David Albright: "Overall, Israel's and U.S. attacks have effectively destroyed Iran's centrifuge enrichment program.  It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack."

Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program Deputy Director Andrea Stricker: "I think that because of the massive damage and the shock wave that would have been sent by 12 Massive Ordnance Penetrators at the Fordow site, that it likely would render its centrifuges damaged or inoperable." 

American Enterprise Institute Middle East Portfolio Manager Brian Carter: "There is no question that the bombing campaign 'badly, badly damaged' the three sites."

Institute for Science and International Security Senior Research Fellow Spencer Faragasso: "Overall, it may possibly take years for Iran to reconstitute the capabilities it lost at these facilities."