US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that an investigation will be conducted into who leaked preliminary intelligence, according to which US strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran set back Tehran's nuclear program by just a few months.
This is reported by the AP.
"It was preliminary, it was low confidence (about preliminary intelligence - ed.)," Hegseth said during Trump's meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at a summit in The Hague.
He said that the administration "naturally" begins an investigation into the leak of information, and reported that talks with the FBI have already begun.
In addition, Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US President Donald Trump repeated the claim that the strikes led to "complete and total destruction."
Recall, earlier Trump was outraged by the report of CNN and the New York Times, which refuted, citing sources, the destruction of the main components of Iran's nuclear program by US strikes on June 22. He insists on the complete destruction of nuclear facilities in Iran.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in particular, CNN reported, citing American officials who had read the preliminary assessment of US intelligence, that the US army's strikes on the territory of Iran did not lead to the destruction of the main components of the nuclear program. It was stated that Tehran's progress in the issue of creating nuclear weapons was probably set back only a few months.
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