{"id":2452074,"date":"2025-06-25T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-iran-debunked-claims-nuclear-sites-werent-destroyed-leavitt\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T19:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:41:02","slug":"israel-and-iran-debunked-claims-nuclear-sites-werent-destroyed-leavitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-iran-debunked-claims-nuclear-sites-werent-destroyed-leavitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Iran debunked claims nuclear sites weren&#8217;t destroyed: Leavitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-and-iran-debunked-claims-nuclear-sites-werent-destroyed-leavitt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2452074&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-strikes-fear-in-aoc-says-she-might-get-jail-time-during-absurd-meltdown-hes-out-of-his-mind\/\" title=\"Trump Alarms AOC, Claims She Could Face Jail in Bizarre Outburst - &#039;He&#039;s Lost It!\">article discusses comments made<\/a> by white House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden&#039;s Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">press secretary<\/a> Karoline Leavitt regarding recent U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Leavitt defended these actions against reports suggesting that iran&#8217;s nuclear sites had not been fully destroyed. She emphasized that both U.S. intelligence and Israel&#8217;s Atomic Energy Commission contradicted claims that the strikes only temporarily disrupted Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, asserting that the Fordow facility had been rendered inoperable.Leavitt criticized media narratives, particularly a CNN report describing the impact of the strikes, labeling it as misleading and politically motivated. She also noted that ongoing investigations by the FBI and the department of Justice would look into leaks regarding the operation. Concerns had been raised about potential retaliatory actions from Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S. following the strikes. The overall stance of the Trump administration is to affirm the success of the operation while denouncing the accuracy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/perspective-stop-whining-plebs-the-dc-elite-are-also-suffering\/\" title=\"Perspective: Stop Whining, Plebs, the DC \u00c9lite Are Also Suffering\">media coverage surrounding<\/a> it.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Leavitt says Israel and Iran have <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >debunked claims nuclear sites weren&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t destroyed<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2158110\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karoline-leavitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a> joined members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump administration<\/a> in firmly rebuffing reports that Iran&rsquo;s nuclear sites were not completely destroyed, citing information from the two countries involved in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has been adamant that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/24\/politics\/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">a report<\/a> that the recent strikes against Iran only set the nuclear program back a few months is wrong. Leavitt described the leaked information as a &ldquo;low-confidence, preliminary intelligence assessment.&rdquo; In the face of multiple people debunking the report, Israel&rsquo;s Atomic Energy Commission has stated that the strikes on Fordow, one of the sites struck by the United States, &ldquo;rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3453989\/curtis-sliwa-slams-andrew-cuomo-felt-entitled-coronation-nyc-mayoral-primary\/\">Curtis Sliwa slams Andrew Cuomo: &lsquo;Felt entitled to coronation&rsquo; in NYC mayoral primary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3454268\/brian-mast-us-faces-real-threat-sleeper-cells-illegal-immigration\/\">Brian Mast says US faces &#8216;real threat&#8217; from sleeper cells over illegal immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3454222\/anti-israel-colorado-terrorist-attack-suspect-charged-hate-crimes\/\">Anti-Israel Colorado terrorist attack suspect charged with hate crimes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Prime Minister&#8217;s Office on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC):<\/p>\n<p>The devastating US strike on Fordow destroyed the site&#8217;s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.<\/p>\n<p>&raquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraeliPM\/status\/1937864798718374032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The [Defense Intelligence Agency] themselves have now come out and said, &lsquo;This was a preliminary report, and this CNN story got it completely wrong,&rsquo;&rdquo; Leavitt stated on Fox News&rsquo;s America Reports. &ldquo;But that reporter is a sheep and she&rsquo;s a mouthpiece for people who don&rsquo;t like [President] Donald Trump, and she only gave the White House an hour to respond, and that&rsquo;s, again, the same playbook we&rsquo;ve seen the fake news media play time and time again. But this story has now been debunked widely by not just the United States, but also Iran and Israel as well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=3001638&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=4476017128b84a85d434bce6d31cffdc\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Leavitt suggested it was not a &ldquo;coincidence&rdquo; that the CNN report on the Iran strikes was written by the same reporter who &ldquo;falsely alleg[ed] that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.&rdquo; In previewing what the Trump administration would do next over the leak, Leavitt confirmed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Justice<\/a> are investigating it.<\/p>\n<p>The press secretary also echoed sentiments by Middle East Envoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/steve-witkoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Steve Witkoff<\/a>, stating that people with &ldquo;common sense&rdquo; recognize that &ldquo;total destruction&rdquo; was enacted with the strikes using 30,000-pound bombs. She proceeded to preview that the destruction&rsquo;s remains are buried under &ldquo;miles and miles of rubble.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3453161\/trump-media-teamed-up-demean-us-strike-iran-nuclear-sites-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP SAYS MEDIA TEAMED UP TO &lsquo;DEMEAN&rsquo; US STRIKE ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES AFTER INTELLIGENCE LEAK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3453369\/pete-hegseth-pentagon-intelligence-leak-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> started an investigation <\/a>into the leak with the help of the FBI. He has accused media outlets of trying to &ldquo;spin&rdquo; the leak to paint Trump in a negative light and &ldquo;trying to undermine the president and the successful mission.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Following the U.S.&rsquo;s strikes against Iran, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) has expressed concern over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3453528\/joni-ernst-iran-praises-trump-strikes-warns-sleeper-cells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S. that could retaliate<\/a> in the near future. Border czar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3450326\/homan-warns-of-possible-iranian-sleeper-cells-who-entered-us-under-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tom Homan has voiced similar concerns<\/a>, saying Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released into the U.S. during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2158110\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2158110\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leavitt asserts Israel and Iran refute claims of undestroyed nuclear sites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2452075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karoline-Leavitt-Iran-leak-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57920,3823,4671,50576,57646],"class_list":["post-2452074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-debunked-claims","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-leavitt-2","tag-nuclear-sites"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karoline-Leavitt-Iran-leak-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452078,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452074\/revisions\/2452078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}