An Israeli member of the Knesset is disputing assertions made by President Donald Trump that one of Iran’s leading nuclear weapons sites has been “obliterated” following strikes by B-2 bombers utilizing bunker buster munitions earlier this week.
During the NATO summit on Wednesday morning, Trump claimed that intelligence agents had examined the Fordow facility and confirmed its destruction. However, MK Aryeh Deri dismissed Trump’s assertion that Israeli operatives had visited Iranian nuclear sites to evaluate the consequences of the strikes.
“No one knows—because no one has visited there yet,” the ultra-Orthodox lawmaker stated to the Haredi news outlet Kikar Hashabbat. “Based on all available statistics, assessments, and satellite imagery, damage has indeed occurred there.”
In the meantime, in response to reports regarding American intelligence evaluations, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi provided a different perspective to Ynet
