President Trump revealed Wednesday that Israel sent agents to Iran’s bombed nuclear sites to confirm their “total obliteration” — while insisting his surprise attack was too quick for Tehran to have removed its uranium.
Trump was adamant the strikes wiped out Iran’s nuclear facilities and set the program back decades — despite a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment suggesting Tehran could salvage it within months.
“Israel is doing a report on it now, I understand, and I was told that they said it was total obliteration,” Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
“You know they have guys that go in there after the hit, and they said it was total obliteration,” he continued, adding “I believe it was total obliteration.”
He insisted Iran wouldn’t have been able to remove the uranium being enriched at the sites before he gave the order to drop the barrage of massive bunker-buster bombs on the three sites.
“They didn’t have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast. If it would have taken two weeks, maybe. But it’s very hard to remove that kind of material, very hard and very dangerous for them to remove it,” Trump said.