Hegseth doubles down as Khamenei says Trump 'exaggerated' impact of US strikes on nuclear sites

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00:00How destructive were the U.S. airstrikes on Iran?

00:06Did they completely destroy the facilities and obliterate Iran's nuclear capabilities

00:11as the Trump administration continues to claim?

00:14Or did they only set it back a few months as a leaked report from the intelligence arm of the Pentagon asserts?

00:21When asked about whether any of the nuclear material was moved before the strikes,

00:25the U.S. Secretary of Defense lashed out.

00:29There's been a lot of discussion about what happened and what didn't happen.

00:31Step back for a second.

00:33Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war,

00:39decimating — choose your word — obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities.

00:47Adding to the confusion, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, now says the strikes did destroy key sites

00:55but stopped short of declaring that Iran's nuclear program was wiped out.

01:00Meanwhile, the Financial Times is reporting that preliminary intelligence assessments provided to European governments

01:07indicate that Iran's stockpile of uranium was not concentrated at Fordow at the time of last week's attack,

01:15but had already been moved to other locations.

01:18This comes as Tehran acknowledged its facilities sustained significant damage.

01:23However, in his first remarks since Iran's ceasefire with Israel,

01:28Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asserted that the United States had gained nothing.

01:33They attacked our nuclear facilities, which would, of course, merit criminal prosecution in international courts,

01:43but they didn't achieve anything significant.

01:46The U.S. president exaggerated events in an unusual way.

01:51And it turned out he needed this exaggeration.

01:55Everyone who heard these words understood there's another truth behind it.

01:59They could not achieve the objective they set for themselves.

02:02The only way to know for sure is with on-site inspections.

02:08But Tehran has just passed a law ending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

02:15The global nuclear watchdog says it's yet to receive any official notification on the map.

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