CIA asserts Iran’s nuclear program ‘severely damaged’ amid conflicting intel: ‘Tehran would take years’

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday said a body of credible intelligence indicated that Iran’s nuclear program was severely damaged by recent U.S. strikes, and that it would take years to be rebuilt, Reuters reporteed.

“This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years,” Ratcliffe said in a statement.

(With inputs from Reuters)

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