{"id":1548674,"date":"2025-07-23T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1548674"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:45:00","slug":"iran-acknowledges-that-us-airstrikes-destroyed-nuclear-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/iran-acknowledges-that-us-airstrikes-destroyed-nuclear-facilities\/1548674\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Acknowledges That US Airstrikes ‘Destroyed’ Nuclear Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran Acknowledges That US Airstrikes ‘Destroyed’ Nuclear Facilities<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s foreign minister confirmed this week that U.S. airstrikes left the country\u2019s nuclear facilities \u201cdestroyed\u201d but said Iran would continue to enrich uranium<\/strong>. This comes about a month after three facilities were targeted.<\/p>\n

A satellite image taken the day after U.S. airstrikes shows damage at Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility on June 24, 2025. Maxar Technologies via AP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur facilities have been damaged, seriously damaged, the extent of which is now under evaluation<\/strong>,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed in a Fox News \u201cSpecial Report\u201d interview<\/a> on July 21.<\/p>\n

Later in the interview, Araghchi conceded that \u201cthe facilities have been destroyed,\u201d referring to nuclear enrichment sites that were targeted by the U.S. military on June 22. President Donald Trump authorized the strikes amid a nearly two-week aerial war between Iran and Israel.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials and Trump have said that strikes carried out by B-2 stealth bombers destroyed Iran\u2019s ability to enrich uranium at three sites: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.<\/strong> Several intelligence assessments have been leaked to the media suggesting otherwise, however, drawing pushback from Trump and others.<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social on July 21, Trump responded to the Araghchi interview on Fox News and again said that reports claiming the United States didn\u2019t destroy the sites are false. Trump also warned that the U.S. military could launch more strikes if needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, on the Iran Nuclear Sites: \u2018Damages are very severe, they are destroyed.<\/strong>\u2019 Of course they are, just like I said, and we will do it again, if necessary! As interviewed by Bret Baier,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n

The president added that CNN and other media outlets should \u201capologize\u201d to him and \u201cthe great pilots\u201d following the strikes, which he said \u201cOBLITERATED\u201d Iran\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n

In the Fox News interview, Araghchi said that Tehran will not abandon its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is stopped because, yes, damages are serious and severe. But obviously, we cannot give up [on] enrichment because it is an achievement of our own scientists. And now, more than that, it is a question of national pride,\u201d the foreign minister said.<\/p>\n

Before the conflict in June, Tehran and Washington held five rounds of nuclear talks mediated by Oman but could not agree on the extent to which Iran should be allowed to enrich uranium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israel and Washington say Iran was close to enriching to levels that would allow it to quickly produce a nuclear weapon. Tehran says its enrichment program is for civilian purposes only.<\/p>\n

U.S. ally Israel launched strikes on Iran on June 13, and the two nations then engaged in an air war for 12 days in which Washington also bombed Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. A cease-fire was reached in late June.<\/p>\n

Araghchi also said that Iran\u2019s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was in \u201cgood health\u201d and that Tehran was open to talks with Washington, but that those will not be direct \u201cfor the time being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran will meet with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in Istanbul on July 25 to discuss the country\u2019s nuclear program, a spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The talks will take place at the deputy ministerial level, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 07\/23\/2025 – 18:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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