THE HAGUE, June 25. /TASS/. Iranian nuclear facilities were completely destroyed in American strikes, US President Donald Trump said.
"When you take a look at the ground above [the nuclear facilities], don't forget, the flame is all underground. But everything above, if you look at the before and the after pictures, everything above is burned black, the trees, everything. <…> I believe it was total obliteration," the US leader said at a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the alliance’s summit.
According to Trump, it is highly unlikely that the Iranian authorities evacuated nuclear materials from the Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility before the US attacked the site. "I believe they didn't have a chance to get anything out, because we acted fast. It would have taken [them] two weeks, maybe, [to do so]. But it's very hard to remove that kind of material. It’s very hard and very dangerous to remove it," the US president pointed out.
He also said that the American attacks on the Iranian nuclear facility pushed back the country’s nuclear program by decades. "I believe [it was put back] basically decades, because I don't think they'll ever do it again," Trump emphasized.
