CIA: Iran's Nuclear Program Reconstruction to Take Years

The CIA estimates that it will take years to rebuild Iran's nuclear program. The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, claimed that a series of credible intelligence reports indicate that Iran's nuclear program suffered serious damage from recent US strikes and that it will take years to rebuild.

Ratcliffe's reports come a day after the leak of a preliminary report stating that the US operation in the early hours of Sunday on three facilities in Iran did not destroy Tehran's nuclear program, but merely delayed it by a few months. The head of the CIA announced that, according to a historically reliable source, many facilities of Iran's nuclear program have been destroyed and will take years to rebuild.