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Iran Concedes U.S. Strikes ‘Badly Damaged’
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/25/2025 9:06:05 AM

The Iranian foreign ministry admitted that their nuclear facilities were “badly damaged” by U.S. strikes over the weekend after reports surfaced about a low-confidence U.S. intelligence assessment suggesting otherwise. Numerous outlets reported Wednesday on an early intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency suggesting the U.S. strikes only set Iran’s nuclear program back a few months. The White House strongly disputed the intelligence assessment and criticized the leakers within the intelligence apparatus. “This alleged ‘assessment’ is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 6/25/2025 9:40:40 AM (No. 1969224)
Can anything Iran "concedes" and "admits" be trusted?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JHHolliday 6/25/2025 9:51:34 AM (No. 1969230)
Re #1, Nor can CNN be trusted.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: hershey 6/25/2025 9:55:14 AM (No. 1969232)
You know the lamestream media will downplay anything Trump accomplishes, so you can bet that they were 'creamed' by the MOABs...tee hee...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chagrined 6/25/2025 9:58:47 AM (No. 1969235)
How perplexing. Who is lying more, the Iranians or CNN and their ilk? Seems neither can be trusted with anything whatsoever.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: billa57 6/25/2025 10:02:22 AM (No. 1969239)
Blindfold and a cigarette.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: dwa 6/25/2025 10:09:34 AM (No. 1969247)
Our Intel community has been wrong about just about everything. Also remember, the Community is part of the deep state that is against Trump and produced the 51 senior intel "leaders" that produced the anti-Trump letter. The Community appears to be more political than reliable intelligence.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bpl40 6/25/2025 10:21:53 AM (No. 1969260)
The Iranians better take a second look. The DIA and CNN say otherwise!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 6/25/2025 10:42:31 AM (No. 1969277)
Are the Iranians telling us we should go back in?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Hazymac 6/25/2025 10:48:18 AM (No. 1969279)
Well, the Iranians conceded more than CNN, which seems upset that Iran sustained damage to its nuclear program. The Legacy Media is the enemy. They should go OB (out of business).
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Reply 10 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 6/25/2025 10:50:48 AM (No. 1969281)
The number of people who knew about this supposed DIA "assessment" can't be very large. None of them should enjoy a moment of comfort until the leakers are identified and terminated.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: ALynnMcW 6/25/2025 11:14:55 AM (No. 1969290)
This is easy. You’re just fire everyone that knew about it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 6/25/2025 11:35:56 AM (No. 1969295)
About now, Iran, China, and Russia are back at the drawing board trying to figure out how to build a nuke program that cannot be stopped by Israel and the US. Have to imagine Iran will either pick up the pieces that remain from their former nuke program and rebuild or, if need be, start over from scratch. If the Grand Ayatollah up and kicked the bucket tomorrow, that does not mean Iran will actually change. There are plenty in Iran that would want to 'continue the cause'. The next move is regime change. Either get together a strong enough resistance movement in Iran that throws out the Mullahs or regime change brought on from outside Iran.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DVC 6/25/2025 11:36:03 AM (No. 1969296)
Anti-Trumpers in the "intel community" putting out intentional lies, of course. And I have no doubt that Iran is glossing over the damage, too.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Venturer 6/25/2025 12:02:06 PM (No. 1969305)
Whoever leaked that report does not need criticism, they need to be shot for TREASON. Whether the report is true or not has nothing to do with it. \The report should not have been leaked. TREASON.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 6/25/2025 12:11:05 PM (No. 1969308)
I rather doubt that this foreign ministry was authorized to speak. I'm quite sure they don't want to be hung over saying something like this. AI at work here.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: red1066 6/25/2025 1:03:52 PM (No. 1969318)
Pictures from last Thursday show there were a line of trucks at the nuclear facility removing nuclear material before the facility was hit on Saturday. The defense department probably knows where those trucks are and can destroy them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Sunhan65 6/25/2025 1:18:18 PM (No. 1969324)
My assumption is if the Iranians say something it is a lie. Therefore, I am compelled against my will to worry that perhaps some of their facilities were less severely damaged than we think. Regardless, finding and hanging the traitor who leaked this is a relatively worry-free exercise that should take place immediately and it would raise my spirits considerably. Make the CNN reporter watch the hanging in person and report on it so they understand the consequences of colluding with those who would betray their country.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: MattMusson1 6/25/2025 1:26:18 PM (No. 1969326)
The facility is entombed in Radioactive Darkness. Digging it our would be like excavating Chernobyl.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: DVC 6/25/2025 2:09:21 PM (No. 1969335)
Re #18, actually uranium isn't very radioactive. I've held a metallic uranium disc about 3" in diameter in my bare hand. No big deal because it gives of alpha radiation which will not penetrate skin. You would be in danger if there was uranium dust around where you might breath it in, and then a particle would sit in your lung for years in direct contact with tissue, and THAT might eventually give you lung cancer. So, maybe digging around in blown up uranium would want you to get a really good dust mask (not an N95 thing) , but it's not like being around nuclear reactor fuel pulled out of a reactor like Chernobyl. Not remotely the same.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: philsner 6/25/2025 2:52:02 PM (No. 1969348)
Right. Alpha particles emit radiation that is most dangerous to humans if ingested because even though it won't penetrate a piece of paper, it will give up all of its radiation to surrounding tissue in the body. Gamma radiation, on the other hand, conserves most of its energy as it passes through you. Before it is used in a reactor or a bomb, uranium is not dangerous to handle. After it undergoes nuclear fission however, it will kill you quick. "Self protecting" is the industry term. You would have to have good safety precautions to go in a bombed out Iranian nuclear production facility, because everything in there would be contaminated with radioactive particles that could be breathed or ingested.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 6/25/2025 7:48:37 PM (No. 1969431)
All damage must ultimately verified by the IAEA. Until then be very suspicious of anything coming from the Ayatollahs and their spokespersons, the Democrat Party.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Strike3 6/26/2025 6:15:05 AM (No. 1969526)
The Ayatollah has not been seen in public since a week before the bombing. Wouldn't it be tragic if he thought it would be safe to hide himself 300 feet underground at Fordow?
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Msquared112 6/26/2025 7:19:52 AM (No. 1969553)
At what point do our own media cross the line into treason by reporting the exact reverse of what really happened? This isn't just about the Iran bombing. It's about Biden's brain, the laptop, Kamala's ineptitude, the Russia hoax, the "pee tape" and all the other outright whoppers they have told to the American gullible. All these things were media-created LIES, then they accuse US of "misinformation." We're the innocents, here, but the leftist media needs to be broken up into shards and re-formed into something of value and decency.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: bsparks 6/26/2025 7:36:40 AM (No. 1969560)
Of course the Iranians will say we severely damaged their nuclear capabilities. “Yes, yes, the US destroyed our facilities, now quit watching as we ramp up our Uranium.”
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Alecto2 6/26/2025 8:17:34 AM (No. 1969579)
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Churchill. Trouble is, everyone has been lying for so long, no one knows what the truth is. I sometimes feel like Arthur Dent: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe."
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Reply 26 - Posted by: MakingSense 6/26/2025 8:22:11 AM (No. 1969581)
When do you think CNN and the rest of the Trump hating MSM will say that the Iranians are now lying about the major damage Trump’s bombing did to their nuke building sites? 🤪
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Zigrid 6/26/2025 9:31:35 AM (No. 1969607)
Just got through watching Admiral Raising Caine and Hegreth explain the mission...midnight thunder...they spent a long time explaining to the fake news just what happened and how it was implemented ....and their assessment...not some flunky at CNN that took one small sentence is the projected report and ran with it...just to sell some air time...and the fool that leaked these few words to CNN is set to be arrested...Kash Patel knows were you are and Pam is ready for you....
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Hazymac 6/26/2025 9:40:52 AM (No. 1969613)
If you have a moment to spare, go to the Babylon Bee: "Obama Distraught as Trump Bombs Cool Nuke Factory he Paid For." Sometimes satire is reality.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: EQKimball 6/26/2025 1:46:57 PM (No. 1969728)
The same media that initially refused to run with the Hunter Biden laptop story, and then ran with the so-called 51 experts debunking it as a Russian hoax. couldn't wait 24 hours to publish this top secret and inaccurate report. They are as honest as the former Soviet scoring judges at the Olympics.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: thefield 6/26/2025 8:21:34 PM (No. 1969820)
I was hoping they would deny it competely. The next groups of boys from MO needed a quick vacation trip.
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