‘POLITICALLY MOTIVATED’: Intel report on strike against Iran LEAKED, maybe faked: Hegseth

June 25, 2025

From Fox News: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is conducting a leak investigation with the FBI after reports cited a leaked preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment that said President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran did not destroy three targeted nuclear sites.

“When you talk to people who built the bombs, understand what those bombs can do and deliver those bombs, they landed precisely where they were supposed to, Hegseth told reporters. “So it was a flawless mission … Any assessment that tells you something otherwise is speculating with other motives. And we know that because when you actually look at the report — by the way, it was a top secret report — it was preliminary, it was low confidence. All right. … And we believe far more likely severe and obliterated. So this is a political motive here.”

“Of course we’re doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes. Battle damage assessments,” Hegseth told reporters when asked about a possible probe. “And CNN and others are trying to spin it to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success.”

Trump was present during the conversation with reporters and he asked Hegseth to address the leak. Trump nodded as Hegseth made important points, interjecting to reiterate that the mission was “flawless” and to say the strike had been referred to as “very devastating, very serious.”

WATCH:

🚨 UPDATE: SecDef Pete Hegseth announces CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION into whoever is feeding bad intel to CNN and NYT that the strikes on Iran didn’t really destroy the nuclear program

“We’re doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now.”

FIRE, ARREST!pic.twitter.com/cMRZ7apmwf

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 25, 2025

International Atomic Energy Agency director Rafael Grossi has stated that the Iranian nuclear program “has been set back significantly.”

“It is clear that there is one Iran before June 13, nuclear Iran, and one now, and it’s night and day,” Grossi added.

Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s special envoy to the Middle East, agreed. He said the U.S. strikes damaged “most, if not all, the centrifuges” at the sites hit in Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow, and that it “will take a period of years” for them to rebuild the vital units.