By Molly Claire Goddard
7:12am PDT, Jul 1, 2025
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The war between
Donald Trump and the media rages on.
During an interview with
Fox News'
Sunday Morning Futures, the president hinted that federal investigators would be going after reporters to tell the government who released the "low confidence" preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that claimed the United States' strike on Iran was less successful than Trump is making it out to be.
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During the sit-down, Donald Trump suggested whoever leaked the report that the damage caused by the airstrikes on Iran wasn't as bad as the right-winger claimed they were should be prosecuted.
"They could find out easily. And you go up and tell the reporter, 'National security, who gave it?' You have to do that. And, I suspect will be doing things like that," Trump said. "They did obliterate it, it turned out. We had to suffer the fake news with the fake news of CNN and the New York Times, [which were] saying, 'Well, maybe it wasn't as good as Trump said. Maybe it wasn't totally obliterated.' It turned out, no, it was obliterated like nobody's ever seen before. And that meant the end to their nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time."
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Following the military action of Donald Trump against Iran in support of Israel, senators and House lawmakers in Washington, D.C., were briefed on the airstrikes. However, many Democratic politicians were left confused over the damage caused to the nuclear sites.
"Right now, we have no final battle damage assessment that would enable us to be comfortable or complacent about what has been done," Richard Blumenthal, a left-wing Senator from Connecticut, said.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy added, "What President Trump told the country is that Iran's nuclear capability was obliterated. And it just was not obliterated. In fact, the International Atomic Energy Commission just confirmed that we only set back their program by a handful of months."
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Although Donald Trump insists Iran's nuclear sites were completely taken out, International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi claims they could have their operations back up and running in the near future.
"They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that," Grossi explained during an interview with Face the Nation.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to X to suggest Donald Trump may be embellishing the extent of the damage.
"The President of the United States, in describing what happened, exaggerated unusually, which turned out to be necessary for that exaggeration," he wrote. "Anyone who heard those words understood that beneath their surface, another truth existed. They couldn't do anything and exaggerated to cover up and conceal the truth."
