Overview
- A preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency assessment finds June 21 airstrikes on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
- Iran moved much of its roughly 400-kilogram stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium out of Fordow and other sites before the strikes, and U.S. officials still cannot pinpoint its location.
- Damage assessments show the GBU-57 bunker-busters and Tomahawk missiles sealed off entryways and crippled power infrastructure without collapsing underground enrichment chambers.
- The White House disputes the intelligence findings and labels the leaked report an attempt to undermine the precision operation.
- Iran and Israel have exchanged further missile salvos since June 21, heightening concerns of a broader Middle East flare-up.