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President Donald Trump arrives with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to speak from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.
S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program. The U.S. bombings of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday likely only set the country's nuclear program back by a matter of months instead of, as President Donald Trump has insisted, completely destroy the facilities,and The New York Times were first to report, citing officials briefed on a preliminary classified report by the Pentagon's intelligence arm.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the assessment "flat-out wrong" and said the leak of the report "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." Others in the Trump administration have been more measured in how they talk about the results of the U.S. strikes., "We’ve done the job of setting their nuclear program back. We’re gonna now work to permanently dismantle that nuclear program over the coming years and that’s what the president has set out to do.” The strikes were executed by B-2 bombers dropping 30,000-pound "bunker-buster" bombs on the underground Fordow and Natanz sites and a submarine launching more than two-dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles on Iran's Isfahan nuclear site.with Israel, top Iranian nuclear official Mohammad Eslami told state media there will be no hiatus in their nuclear program. Iran has denied seeking a nuclear weapon, insisting their nuclear program is for civilian purposes. “Preparations for recovery had already been anticipated, and our plan is to prevent any interruption in production or services," Eslami said. It's why one of Trump's most vocal supporters in Congress, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., hasn't celebrated the ceasefire just yet. “It’s a good thing if it leads to peace," Graham said. "It will be a step backward if it leads to an ability of Iran to rearm and retool. And the head atomic scientist in Iran, the one who’s still alive, said they’re going right back to enrichment. So I’m not so sure we solved the problem yet." Members of Congress were scheduled to be briefed by members of the Intelligence Community on Tuesday in what would have been their first formal briefing since the Israel-Iran conflict began, but it was postponed until later in the week. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said, "no one should read anything into this other than that there's a lot going on." "Senators deserve full transparency," Schumer said. "There is a legal obligation for the administration to inform Congress about precisely what is happening. What are they afraid of? Why won't they engage Congress in the critical details?"
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