CIA says intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program severely damaged

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday (June 25, 2025) said a body of credible intelligence indicated that Iran's nuclear program was severely damaged by recent U.S. strikes, and that it would take years to be rebuilt.

- GNS News Agency, july 3

"This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years," Mr. Ratcliffe said in a statement. This comes in the wake of President Donald Trump's administration hiting back on Wednesday at accounts Iran may have moved enriched uranium before U.S. bombing, as a row grew on how much the strikes set back Tehran's nuclear program.Mr. Trump, seeking credit for ordering military action and then quickly announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, has lashed out angrily at media accounts of a classified report that do