US strikes set back Iran’s nuclear program up to 2 years, DOD says | News World

U.S. military strikes on Iran’s three main nuclear facilities in June likely set that program back by 1-2 years, the Pentagon’s top spokesperson said Wednesday.

“We’re thinking probably closer to two years — like degraded their program by two years,” said Sean Parnell in his first standalone briefing.

Parnell’s assessment comes at a moment of confusion about the effect America’s massive airstrikes had on Iran’s nuclear program.

The administration has repeatedly said that the attacks “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities, a characterization Parnell himself repeated Wednesday.

But an early Defense Intelligence Agency review — first reported by CNN but later confirmed by the administration — estimated that the attacks had only delayed that program by a…more

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