Report says program likely set back only a few months; Iran and Israel both say they will honour truce if other side does after US president expresses frustration at violations
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Donald Trump’s administration told the UN security council on Tuesday that its weekend strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities had “degraded” Iran’s nuclear program – short of the US president’s earlier assertion that the facilities had been “obliterated”.
The US’s acting envoy to the UN, Dorothy Shea, said in a statement to the security council that the US strikes “effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear weapon”.
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that in its 12 days of war with Iran, Israel removed the threat of nuclear annihilation and was determined to stop any Iranian attempt to revive its program.
