The Trump administrator launches the complete press of the court that defends Iran.

The Trump administrator launches the complete press of the court that defends Iran.

President Donald Trump offered on Thursday enthusiastic praise of the informative session of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Pentagon, where he provided more information about US strikes about Iran and defended the president.

“One of the largest, most professional and more ‘confirming’ news conferences I have seen! Trump wrote on his conservative social networks platform, where he had previously encouraged the followers to tune in.

The Hegyseth press conference occurred in the middle of a press on the complete court of the high Trump officials who played a preliminary American intelligence evaluation that said that bombings may only have delayed Iran’s nuclear program in a few months.

“You want to call it destroyed. You want to call it defeated. You want to call it erased. Choose your word. This was a historically successful attack and we should celebrate as Americans,” said a challenging Hegseth from the podium while criticizing the coverage of the media of the events and the initial evaluation of filtered intelligence.

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, and president of the Joint Chiefs of General Staff, the General of the Air Force, Dan Caine, arrives at a press conference at the Pentagon, on June 26, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.

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“This is preliminary but filtered because someone had an agenda to try to cloud the waters and make it seem that this historical attack was not successful,” Hegseth said.

“The classified information is filtered or sold for political purposes to try to make the president look bad,” he added.

The previous day, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, and the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published statements that said that his intelligence supported Trump’s description of the damage inflicted by the US military operation.

“The CIA can confirm that a credible intelligence body indicates that Iran’s nuclear program has been severely damaged by recent and specific strikes,” Ratcliffe wrote in a statement.

Gabbard wrote in X: “The new intelligence confirms what @potus has declared on numerous occasions: Iran’s nuclear facilities have been destroyed. If the Iranians decide to rebuild, they would have to rebuild the three facilities (Natanz, Fordow, Esfahan), which he would probably take years to do.”

The president of the joint bosses, General Dan Caine, who on Sunday said it was “too soon” to carry out complete damage assessments, at the press conference on Thursday he refused to give a detailed evaluation of damage.

“By design, we do not qualify our own task. The intelligence community does,” said Caine.

“But this is what we know after attacks and attacks in Fordo,” Caine continued. “First, that the weapons were constructed, tested and loaded correctly. Two, the weapons were released at the speed and in the parameters. Three, the weapons were guided to their targets already planned their planned points planned. Four, the weapons worked as designed, which means they exploded.”

President of the Chiefs of Joint Staff, the General of the Air Force, Dan Caine, appears during a press conference in the Pentagon on June 26, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.

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“We know this through other media, intelligence means that we could see them visibly,” Caine added. “And we know that the final airplanes saw the first function of weapons and the pilots declared that this was the brightest explosion I have seen. Literally seemed like daylight.”

Caine was asked if he felt any political pressure on how to describe strikes or impact. “No, I haven’t done it, and no, I wouldn’t,” Caine replied.

Hegseth momentarily interrupted the interrogation.

“The president here, who is not involved in politics, does not do politics. That is my lane: understanding and translating and talking about such things. Therefore, I can use the word ‘bordered’,” said Hegseth, the term Trump has used repeatedly.

Even so, several questions are not completely answered, particularly to what exactly the attacks established the nuclear capabilities of Iran and if Iran could move Uranium from the fordo site before the bombing.

Hegseth was asked and Caine about Uranium during his 45 -minute press conference. None provided a clear answer.

Hegseth first attacked the news journalist who asked the question, before saying: “We are looking at all aspects of intelligence and making sure we have an idea of ​​what was where.”

Later, Hegseth said about uranium: “I am not aware of any intelligence that I have reviewed that it says that things were not supposed to be, moved or otherwise.”

President Trump, who was seeing the press conference, appealed to his social networks account to evaluate the speculation that Iran could have transferred to Uranium due to satellite images that show trucks aligned in Fordo in the days before the attack.

“Small cars and trucks on the site were those of the concrete workers who tried to cover the upper part of the axes. Nothing was removed from the facilities. Trump wrote in his social media site.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was asked in her own informative session on Thursday on what the publication of Trump’s social networks was based.

“Look, the president shared that statement with all of you. And I already answered the question about whether the uranium was transferred before the strike. And the answer is no,” Leavitt said.

Leavitt was also asked if the report of the Defense Intelligence Agency on the strikes of the United States would be made public. The initial evaluation that was reported on this week was produced per day with the help of the central command of the United States.

“I don’t think this administration has the habit of sharing classified high secret information,” he said. “These classifications exist for a reason. And I want all those who had the privilege of looking at these documents respect that.”

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