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Iranian intercepted communications downplay the extent of damage caused by US attacks on Iran's nuclear program, the Washington Post reported, citing four people familiar with classified information circulating in the US government.
A source, who declined to be identified, confirmed this to Reuters but said there were serious questions about whether Iranian officials were telling the truth and described the intercepts as unreliable indicators.
The Washington Post report is the latest to raise questions about the extent of the damage to Iran's nuclear program. A preliminary assessment leaked by the Defense Intelligence Agency warned that the attacks may have set back Iran's nuclear program by only a few months.
President Donald Trump said the attacks "totally destroyed" Iran's nuclear program, but US officials acknowledge it will take time to make a full assessment of the damage caused by last weekend's US military strikes.
“The idea that anonymous Iranian officials know what happened under hundreds of feet of rubble is absurd. Their nuclear weapons program is over,” White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said, according to the Washington Post. Washington did not deny that communications of Iranian officials had been intercepted.
In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News, Trump reiterated his belief that the attacks had destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities. "They were eliminated like nobody had ever seen before. And that meant the end of their nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time," he told "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo."
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