Tehran admits: Nuclear facilities were severely damaged

Iran has settled on what happened at its nuclear facilities amid new intelligence assessments suggesting that the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites may not have eliminated the Iranian nuclear program, and US President Donald Trump and his aides have emphasized the inaccuracy of this information.

A new report by an Associated Press reporter, citing the Iranian Foreign Ministry, stated that the nuclear facilities were severely damaged.

The agency quoted an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that the nuclear facilities were "severely damaged" by the US strikes.

This came after Trump confirmed, during his meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO summit in The Hague, that the intelligence information regarding the strike on Iran was inconclusive, confirming that the US strike completely destroyed Iranian nuclear sites.

He also emphasized on Wednesday that the strike caused total destruction to Iran's nuclear sites, and that some media outlets are trying to downplay the significance of the US strike.

He announced that Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities have been degraded for decades, and that Iran had a large stockpile of munitions but that they had been destroyed.

He revealed that the Fordow facility was completely destroyed, providing evidence of this, saying, "Israeli agents were in Fordow after the strike and confirmed the total destruction."

This came after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated the effectiveness of the strikes, saying in an interview with Politico, published today, that significant and substantial damage had been inflicted on a variety of components of Iran's nuclear program.

He also stressed that Tehran is further away from nuclear weapons than ever before, even before US President Donald Trump made his bold decision to destroy the three nuclear sites (Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan).

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ANHA