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Iranian officials in a conversation intercepted by U.S. intelligence said the strikes on nuclear facilities were less destructive than expected<\/p>\n
\n\tIranian government officials in a phone call said that the U.S. military strikes against its nuclear facilities were not as damaging or extensive as they had expected, further undermining the Trump administration\u2019s narrative that they were \u201ccompletely and totally obliterated.\u201d The Washington Post <\/em>first reported the call, citing four people familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter. <\/p>\n \n\tIn the conversation that was meant to be private, Iranian government officials wondered why the strikes did not cause more widespread destruction. <\/p>\n \n\tThe administration in a statement from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt essentially confirmed the existence of the call but called the paper\u2019s reporting \u201cshameful.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s shameful that The Washington Post<\/em> is helping people commit felonies by publishing out-of-context leaks,\u201d Leavitt said. \u201cThe notion that unnamed Iranian officials know what happened under hundreds of feet of rubble is nonsense. Their nuclear weapons program is over.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe U.S. military targeted nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan and definitely caused damage, although how much damage is under debate among the intelligence community.<\/p>\n \n\tThe news of the call broke on the same day an interview with Donald Trump aired where the president threatened to jail Democratic lawmakers who he says leaked intelligence information. He also said his administration would demand that journalists who reported on the leaks reveal their sources.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe can find out [who leaked the intelligence],\u201d Trump said on Fox News\u2019 Sunday Morning Futures<\/em>. \u201cIf they want to, we can find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter, \u2018National security, who gave it [to you]?\u2019 You have to do that, and I suspect we\u2019ll be doing things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n BARTIROMO: You tweeted that Democrats leaked intelligenceTRUMP: They should be prosecutedBARTIROMO: Who specifically?TRUMP: We can find out. You go up and tell the reporter, ‘national security, who gave it?’ You have to do that. And I suspect we’ll be doing things like that.<\/p>\n \u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-29T14:07:51.664Z<\/p>\n \n\tTrump in those comments is referring to journalists from CNN and The New York Times<\/em>. Both outlets reported on a leaked intelligence summary from the Pentagon that concluded the bombings closed off entrances to two facilities but that the structures underneath remained intact. The attacks only set Iran\u2018s nuclear program back months, the report said, contradicting the administration\u2019s claims that their facilities were completely destroyed.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\t\u201cIt turned out, no, it was obliterated like nobody\u2019s ever seen before,\u201d Trump said in the interview that aired Sunday. \u201cAnd that meant the end to their nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iranian officials in a conversation intercepted by U.S. intelligence said the strikes on nuclear facilities were less destructive than expected Iranian government officials in a phone call said that the U.S. military strikes against its nuclear facilities were not as damaging or extensive as they had expected, further undermining the Trump administration\u2019s narrative that they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[634,84,2350,2352,293,2351,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-9786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-call","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-leaked","11":"tag-narrative","12":"tag-report","13":"tag-shreds","14":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n