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(NewsNation) — The Israel Atomic Energy Commission said Wednesday that caller U.S. subject strikes person set backmost Iran's atomic programme by "many years," countering a U.S. study indicating a hold of lone a substance of months.
"The devastating US strike connected Fordo destroyed the site's captious infrastructure and rendered the enrichment installation inoperable," the Israeli committee said successful a statement. "We measure that the American strikes connected Iran's atomic facilities, combined with Israeli strikes connected different elements of Iran's subject atomic program, has acceptable backmost Iran's quality to make atomic weapons by galore years."
The committee said the setback could beryllium prolonged "indefinitely" if Iran were incapable to regain entree to atomic materials.
The appraisal follows an earlier report from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency that determined the strikes acceptable backmost Iran's atomic programme by lone a fewer months.
The report, described to the Associated Press by 2 radical acquainted with it, contradicted statements from President Donald Trump, who has said the Iranian atomic programme was "completely and afloat obliterated."
The White House rejected that report, calling it "flat-out wrong," and Trump has defended his characterization of the strike's impact.
"It was obliteration, and you'll spot that," Trump told reporters portion attending the NATO summit successful the Netherlands. He said the quality was "very inconclusive" and described media outlets arsenic "scum" for reporting connected it.
Trump has brought a consciousness of triumph to the summit, wherever helium has boasted astir the effectiveness of the strikes, dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer” and which deed three Iranian atomic facilities — Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
Robert Sherman and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
