Israeli Officials Contradict Pentagon Initial Assessment, Claim There Is 'Significant Damage' To Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Israeli intelligence services reportedly disagree with the Pentagon's initial assessment that no significant damage was made to Iran's main nuclear facilities following the U.S. attack this weekend.

According to Axios, Israeli officials are "perplexed" by the leaked intelligence report. Even though the country has not produced a final report on the strikes, the initial evaluation is far more optimistic, with an official telling the outlet that there are "no indications the bunker-buster bombs didn't work." "Nobody here is disappointed," the official added.

The view is much more closer to President Donald Trump's, who has claimed Iran's nuclear facilities have been "obliterated." White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also slammed the report on Tuesday, saying that the assessment is "flat-out wrong and was classified as 'top secret' but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community."

The official went on to say that the report is a "clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program." "Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration," she concluded.

Trump has expressed confidence in the effectiveness of the strikes, as has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.S. military has also referred to the operation as an "overwhelming success."

The three sites hit in the attacks, Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, sustained severe damage in their aboveground structures, leading Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to reiterate that Iran's nuclear facilities "have been obliterated."

However, the CNN report claims that they failed to "destroy the core components" of Iran's nuclear program, likely only setting it back by months.

Iran said on Tuesday that it's assessing damage to its nuclear industry but has already made arrangements to restore it, according to nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami.