Trump, Hegseth scoff at Iran damage assessment; leak probe underway

President Trump and his top national security brass aggressively pushed back on reporting that recent strikes on Iran only set its nuclear program back by a matter of months — a determination made by the administration’s own internal assessments. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said an investigation was underway into leaks of a preliminary classified report that determined U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend set the regime’s program back several months, despite Trump insisting it was actually a matter of decades.

“Of course we’re doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now, because this information is for internal purposes, battle damage assessments,” Hegseth told reporters at the NATO summit in the Netherlands. “And CNN and others are trying to spin it to make the president look bad, when this was an overwhelming success.”

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