President Trump and top administration officials have quickly taken a victory lap in the wake of Saturday’s strikes on Iran, saying the attacks achieved their primary goal of “obliterating” Tehran’s nuclear program.

But the administration has not yet produced the evidence to back that claim, Congress has yet to be briefed on the attacks, and nuclear experts at home and abroad are cautioning that any damage assessment is premature without a closer inspection of the targeted sites.

The uncertainty is raising questions both about the effectiveness of the Pentagon strikes and whether Trump will order further incursions to clean up any potential loose ends — an option the president already floated over the weekend. On Capitol Hill, that ambiguity has prompted Democratic accusations that Trump is inflating the effectiveness of the attacks for political gain.

“There's zero evidence that I've seen that the nuclear program was completely and totally obliterated as Donald Trump has claimed,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters Monday in the Capitol. “No evidence that has been presented to Congress to suggest that that has occurred.”

Jeffries cited news........

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