by Tyler Durden on zerohedge
The intelligence-gathering saga and (highly politicized) efforts to ascertain just how much of Iran’s nuclear program was truly destroyed during the US attacks on Iran called “Midnight Hammer” on June 22 continues. And now NBC is reporting that it was likely much less damage inflicted on two among the three facilities than previously thought.
“One of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States last month was mostly destroyed, setting work there back significantly,” the Thursday report says. “But the two others were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months if Iran wants it to, according to a recent U.S. assessment of the destruction caused by the military operation, five current and former U.S. officials familiar with the assessment told NBC News.”
The assessment was issued in a briefing to some US lawmakers, as well as American defense officials and even allied countries in recent days, officials told NBC.
It’s hard to know what to make of this, a big question not stated is whose Intel? If it’s MI6 / CIA then it needs to be treated with suspicion; we all know how much they are driven by the ‘forever wars’ desire of the Deep State. Is it just an attempt to get Trump-Rubio to give Iran more bombing? —Eds