Trump: US-Iran talks planned but a deal may be unnecessary – ‘Israel stated nuclear sites are obliterated!’

After media reports of a U.S. intelligence assessment sowed doubts about the efficacy of the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized that Israel assessed the sites and they were “obliterated.”

In light of this, Trump noted that a deal with the regime might now be unnecessary: “We may sign an agreement. To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary.”

Speaking at the NATO summit on Wednesday, Trump said that another meeting was set for next week but added, “They had a war, they fought, and now they’re going back to their world. I don’t care if I have an agreement or not.”

“We destroyed the nuclear (sites),” he insisted, “It’s blown up, to Kingdom Come. So I don’t feel strongly about it… I could get a statement that they’re not going to go nuclear, we’re probably going to ask for that.”

“But they’re not going to be doing it anyway. They’ve had it,” Trump said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Trump publicly tore into several news outlets that quoted a preliminary intelligence assessment by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), claiming the nuclear program was only set back by several months.

He also noted that “Israel is doing a report on it now... You know they have guys that go in there, after the hit, and they said it was total obliteration.”

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On Wednesday evening, after the White House shared a report by the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) which stated that the U.S. strikes had rendered the site at Fordow “inoperable,” Trump doubled down in another post on Truth Social, writing: “Israel just stated that the Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED! Thank you to our great B-2 pilots, and all others involved!”

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office later published a statement on behalf of the IAEC.

“The devastating US strike on Fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.”

“The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material,” the IAEC wrote.

That same evening, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir stressed that “According to the assessment of senior officials in the IDF Intelligence Directorate, the damage to the nuclear program is not a localized blow, but a systemic one.”

“The accumulated achievement allows us to determine that the Iranian nuclear program suffered severe, broad, and deep damage and was pushed back by years,” Zamir said.

“We will not allow Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction.”