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Pentagon says US strikes set Iran’s nuclear program back by up to two years
The Pentagon says that Iran’s nuclear program has been degraded by up to two years following US strikes that it says destroyed the three sites targeted by the United States.
Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesman, offers the estimate at a briefing to reporters, adding that the official estimate was “probably closer to two years.”
US President Donald Trump insisted in an interview with Fox News earlier this week that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated” by the Israeli and US strikes last month.
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