US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites only set back program months, Pentagon report says

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Source: The Guardian

Tue 24 Jun 2025 16.49 EDT
Last modified on Tue 24 Jun 2025 16.50 EDT


An initial classified US assessment of Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend says they did not destroy two of the sites and likely only set back the nuclear program by a few months, according to two people familiar with the report.

The report produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency – the intelligence arm of the Pentagon – concluded key components of the nuclear program including centrifuges were capable of being restarted within months.

The report also found that much of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be put to use for a possible nuclear weapon was moved before the strikes and may have been moved to other secret nuclear sites maintained by Iran.

The findings by the DIA, which were based on a preliminary battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in the Middle East, suggests Trump’s declaration about the sites being “obliterated” may have been overstated.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/iran-strikes-nuclear-sites-report

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1. "May have been overstated"

And how much did that “overstated” Viagara for MAGAs cost?

[Irish_Dem]

3. I also would like to see total final cost of this little operation.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Those aircraft were in the Air approx 30 hours

Not including the decoys wisely put up by the AF. Not to mention the cost of the bombs.

Criteria for peace prize: how many bombs did you drop to get it?

[Irish_Dem]

6. There was a large number of USAF aircraft.

Huge cost. And bombs, yes.

Right maybe the more bombs you drop the more apt you are to get a prize.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. Likely more than his golf trips.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Trump is wasting huge amounts of tax payer money.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. Now there's a ****ing surprise.

-- Vinny Gambini

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2. Yeah, but it got the birthday parade debacle out of the news.

As a bonus, it helped bibi politically, thus delaying his failing another no-confidence vote and subsequent trip to prison for corruption. I suppose it also cements israel's finishing their genocide to create trump's gaz-a-lago.

[flashman13]

4. So Private No Class Bonespurs wasted 12 of our 20 super bombs for nothing.

I hope we don't really need them any time in the near future.

[Mawspam2]

10. It was 14 GBU-57s @ $3.5 mil each.

14 × $3.5mil = $49mil just for bombs.
Plus

7 B-2s running 36 hours (18 each way) at a cost of $65,000 per hour.
7 × 36 × $65k = $16mil
Plus

125 total refuelers/fighters/support aircraft. Cost ??

Just so Photo-Op Don could beat his chest about how great a warrior he is.

And don't think this is over.

Eff him.

[flashman13]

11. A bargain at any price.

It's most certainly not over.

[GreatShakes66]

12. Time for someone to pounce on this...

I hope some fact finding hearings are in the works at least. So far mainstream media just seems to be parroting the bit about the sites being completely obliterated.

[BlueWavePsych]

13. Kick