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Washington is facing an unsettling reality amid the complexities of its confrontation with Iran. CNN revealed today, citing preliminary U.S. intelligence assessments, that the recent airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities failed to achieve their primary objectives. This has sparked growing doubts within U.S. security institutions regarding the operation’s effectiveness.
According to the network, U.S. B-2 bombers carried out multiple precision strikes on uranium enrichment sites at Fordow and Natanz. However, key components of Iran’s nuclear program—including centrifuges and enriched uranium—remain intact, the report confirmed.
Despite the scale of the attack, initial estimates suggest the actual impact may be temporary, possibly delaying Iran’s progress by only a few months. Other undeclared nuclear sites, believed to be operational, were reportedly not targeted.
In a related development, CNN reported that the United States used submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles to strike the Isfahan nuclear facility, deliberately avoiding the use of bunker-busting bombs—possibly due to the site’s geological depth, which made it resistant to conventional impact.
However, a sharp contradiction emerged when the White House officially denied these assessments, calling them “completely false” in a statement to the network’s correspondent.
The intelligence assessment noted that the strikes not only failed to destroy Fordow or Iran’s 60% enriched uranium stockpile, but also fell short of damaging the centrifuges.
This discrepancy between intelligence findings and the White House’s stance reveals internal confusion over the outcome of the operation. It raises a pressing question in Washington: Is Iran now only weeks away from acquiring the capability to enrich uranium to 90%—the level required for nuclear weapons production?
The reports, which Tehran has yet to refute, point to a simultaneous American failure—militarily, intelligence-wise, and politically—and place Iran in a stronger strategic and negotiating position, especially if its most sensitive facilities were unharmed and its retaliatory capability remains intact.
