IDF spokesman: ‘Too early’ to assess damage to Iran’s nuclear program

By Emanuel Fabian

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25 June 2025, 10:42 am

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

This handout satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on June 22, 2025, shows a crater after US strikes on Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says it is still “too early” to assess the damage to Iran’s nuclear program following the war.

“We met all the objectives of the operation as defined for us, even better than we thought. But it is still too early to determine, we are investigating the results of the strikes on the different sections of the nuclear program,” Defrin says in response to a question at a press conference.

“The assessment is that we significantly damaged the nuclear program, and I can say we set it back by years,” he says.

Last night, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that, “We have set Iran’s nuclear project back by years, and the same goes for its missile program.”