US President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before” by Israeli and US strikes this month, reiterating his contention that the Islamic Republic cannot build a nuclear weapon after American bombings of three key nuclear facilities last week.

“That meant the end to their nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time,” Trump said.

“The bomb went through it like it was butter, like it was absolute butter,” he said of the bunker-buster strike on the underground Fordo facility, buried deep underground. “It’s just thousands of tons of rock in that room right now. The whole place was just destroyed.”

Trump also said more countries would soon join the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations with Israel.

The interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo came amid reports that preliminary intelligence assessments in the wake of the American strikes on Iran have cast doubt on their effectiveness.

The reports have questioned whether the massive bunker-buster bombs dropped by US pilots actually destroyed the underground facilities, and suggested that the enriched uranium stored there — which could be further enriched for weaponization — was moved prior to the attack, potentially even to facilities that the US does not know about.

Trump said those who leaked the information to reporters “should be prosecuted,” and said it would be easy to find out who did, saying: “You tell the reporter ‘national security,’ who gave it? You have to do that. And I suspect we’ll be doing things like that.”

The president insisted that the Iranians did not move highly enriched uranium out of the Fordo site........

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