News: Intercepted Iranian officials said in a phone call that the destructive power of the US air strike was less than expected

The Washington Post reported on Sunday (June 29) that the phone calls of Iranian officials intercepted by the United States downplayed the extent of the damage to Iran's nuclear facilities caused by US air strikes.

The report quoted four people familiar with confidential intelligence within the US government as saying that the content of the phone calls intercepted by the US side showed that Iranian officials claimed that the destructive power of the US on Iran's nuclear facilities was less than expected.

A source who preferred to remain anonymous confirmed the claim to Reuters, but he expressed high doubts about whether Iranian officials were telling the truth and said the intercepted information was an unreliable indicator.

The private communications of Iranian officials intercepted by the US intelligence agency are completely different from what US President Trump said. Trump once said that the US air strikes "completely destroyed" Iran's nuclear weapons program. But US officials admit that it will still take some time to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the results of the strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend.

The latest report of The Washington Post has once again raised questions about the extent of damage to Iran's nuclear program. Last week, a leaked preliminary assessment report from the Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States pointed out that the US attack might only delay Iran's plan to develop nuclear weapons for a few months.

The White House refuted the report of The Washington Post. White House Press Secretary Levitt said, "It is simply nonsense to claim that unidentified Iranian officials know about the ruins of nuclear facilities hundreds of feet underground." Their nuclear program has come to an end.

In an interview broadcast by Fox News on Sunday, Trump reaffirmed that he firmly believes Iran's nuclear capabilities have been completely destroyed, "an unprecedented total destruction." This indicates that their nuclear ambitions are over and cannot be restored for at least some time.