Baku. TurkicWorld:
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the US’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites did “very significant, substantial” damage, setting their nuclear capacities far back, TurkicWorld reports, citing Al Jazeera.
“The bottom line is, they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the president took this bold action,” Rubio told Politico. “That’s the most important thing to understand – significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we’re just learning more about it.”
“His analysis comes amid conflicting reports over the extent of damage caused by the U.S. strikes.
A CNN report, citing sources familiar with a preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment, said the strikes likely delayed Iran’s nuclear program by just several months – a far cry from Trump’s claim that Iran’s facilities were “completely and totally obliterated”.
Rubio slammed the CNN report as “a false story” that “really shouldn’t be rereported”.
