President Donald Trump has rejected reports in the US media that, according to intelligence data, US strikes against Iran have only delayed Tehran's nuclear program by a few months.

“Iran's nuclear facilities have been completely destroyed!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

A classified preliminary report by US intelligence concludes that US strikes against Iran have only delayed Tehran's nuclear program by a few months, rather than destroying it, as the president claims.

US media quoted people familiar with the findings of the Defense Intelligence Agency as saying that the weekend strikes did not completely destroy Iran's centrifuges or enriched uranium stocks.

According to the report, the strikes blocked the entrances to some facilities without destroying the underground buildings, AFP reported.

White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt confirmed the authenticity of the assessment but said it was “completely wrong and classified as ‘top secret,’ yet it was leaked.”

“The leak of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to humiliate President Trump and discredit the brave pilots who perfectly executed their mission to destroy Iran's nuclear program,” Livit wrote in X.

“Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000-pound bombs right on your targets: total destruction,” she added.

American B-2 bombers struck two Iranian nuclear sites with massive GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs over the weekend, while a submarine struck a third site with Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Trump called the strikes a “spectacular military success” and said they had ‘destroyed’ the nuclear sites. Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth said Washington's forces had “destroyed Iran's nuclear program.”

However, Chief of Staff General Dan Keane was more cautious, saying that the strikes had caused “extremely heavy damage” to the facilities.

The Iranian government announced that it had “taken the necessary measures” to ensure the continuation of its nuclear program.

“Plans for resumption (of the facilities) have been prepared in advance, and our strategy is to ensure that production and services are not interrupted,” said Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

An adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, meanwhile said his country still had stocks of enriched uranium and that “the game is not over.”

On June 13, Israel launched an unprecedented air campaign targeting Iranian nuclear sites, scientists, and senior military officials in an attempt to slow Tehran's nuclear efforts.

Trump spent weeks seeking a diplomatic path to replace the nuclear agreement with Tehran, which he withdrew from during his first term in 2018, but ultimately decided to take military action.

The US operation was massive. General Kane said it involved more than 125 US aircraft, including stealth bombers, fighter jets, refueling aircraft, a submarine with guided missiles, and reconnaissance, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft. | BGNES