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Eugene

(65,860 posts) Fri Jun 27, 2025, 11:37 AM Jun 27

Iranian foreign minister admits serious damage to nuclear sites

Source: BBC

Iranian foreign minister admits serious damage to nuclear sites

27 June 2025

Danai Nesta Kupemba
BBC News

Iran's foreign minister has admitted that "excessive and serious" damage was done to the country's nuclear sites in the recent US and Israeli bombings.

Abbas Araghchi told a state broadcaster on Thursday evening that an assessment of the damage is being carried out by the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.

But, just hours earlier, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the strikes did not disrupt the country's nuclear programme. Khamenei was responding to US President Donald Trump's assertion that the bombs had "totally obliterated" three nuclear sites.

Khamenei said the US attacks had failed to "accomplish anything significant".

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmv3kp744ro

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Iranian foreign minister admits serious damage to nuclear sites (Original Post) Eugene Jun 27 OP

Iran has every incentive to overstate the damage WSHazel Jun 27 #1

I got an assessment before they dropped the bombs gab13by13 Jun 27 #2

WSHazel

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1. Iran has every incentive to overstate the damage

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 27, 2025, 12:12 PM

Jun 27

They don't want Israel or the U.S. to attack again, and they want to make themselves look like the victims if the US/Israel do. Khamenei is not smart enough to play this right, because he should claim the Americans killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed a research lab.

gab13by13

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2. I got an assessment before they dropped the bombs

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 27, 2025, 01:04 PM

Jun 27

from Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He said the bombs would not penetrate to the buried facilities.

They most likely damaged entrances.

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