Iran: Total destruction or only minor damage?

US President Donald Trump continues to be convinced that attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities “completely destroyed them” and turned Tehran's nuclear programme “into several decades behind”. At the NATO meeting in The Hague, Trumpi said the Iranian regime: “will no longer build long-term bombs”.

Trump also called New York Times and CNN reports, that the nuclear programme's attacks Iran It had been hampered for just a few months like <x0 false news>” and used insults against the newspaper and television station, reports DW, Periscopi broadcast.

Non - Destructive Hurts

The New York Times and CNN had reported that according to initial estimates of the US secret services bombing over the weekend, they failed to destroy Iran's underground nuclear facilities. According to the report of the secret services from the bombings, only the entrances of the Fordo facility were destroyed, but not the subterranean buildings themselves.

The five-page secret services report also assumes that before the attacks were launched Iran had moved its uranium reserves to other areas, the New York Times writes.

Israel's Careful Value

Israel gave a careful assessment of the effect of the attacks. The “is still too early to try the results of the” operation, Israeli Army spokesman Effie Defren said. But he added: “I believe we have dealt a serious blow to the nuclear programme. We turned him around a few years back. ”

Iran talking of serious damage

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the damage to nuclear plants was serious. A spokesman told Al Jazeera that he could not provide any details, but that attacks by bunker-destructor bombs were strong and serious damage.

ISA wants to inspect 

Explaining the situation could provide the UN Nuclear Energy Agency, ISAA. She is insisting that access to attacked nuclear facilities be allowed as soon as possible.

IAEA chief Rafael Gross said that his inspectors' return has top priorities. They must assess the effects of the attacks and verify the reserves of enriched uranium, he said at a press conference following an Austrian Security Cabinet meeting in Vienna. This includes three uranium enrichment plants.

Gross acknowledged that inspection of objects damaged by war is difficult. And Iran's IRIB state television radio reported that parliament in Tehran had decided to temporarily suspend co-operation with the IAA with headquarters in Vienna. /Periscopi