White House: US strikes obliterated key Iranian nuclear sites
Shafaq News/ The White House asserted, on Monday, it has a 'high degree of confidence' that recent US airstrikes eliminated critical Iranian nuclear sites containing enriched uranium.
Speaking to ABC's Good Morning America, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the strikes 'completely and totally obliterated [the facilities] as the president [Donald Trump] said in his address to the nation on Saturday night.'
She stressed that Trump would not have greenlit the mission without clear evidence of its effectiveness.
Her remarks followed Sunday's US-Israeli strikes on three major Iranian nuclear sites—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Since June 13, Iran and Israel have launched near-daily missile and drone attacks. Despite growing international pressure to de-escalate, both sides continue to engage across multiple fronts.
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