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Updated 27 June 2025 at 00:29 IST

Iran Was Weeks Away From Producing Nuclear Weapon That Would Have Threatened Entire World: White House

The White House has claimed that Iran was weeks away from producing a nuclear weapon that would have emerged as a threat to the entire world.

Reported by: Shashwat Bhandari
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Satellite Images of the Fordow site, Iran.
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Washington: White House on Thursday made a big statement on Iran's nuke programme claiming that Tehran was just weeks away from producing a nuclear weapon that would have threatened the entire world, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt informed.

“The Iranian regime was weeks away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon that would threaten the entire world before POTUS took this decisive action on Saturday night to obliterate their nuclear capabilities.”

On the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, the United States on the directions of President Donald Trump bombed critical nuclear sites in Iran including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan using B-2 stealth bombers.

Donald Trump had claimed that the US strike completely obliterated Iran's nuclear sites after world most technically advanced B-2 stealth bombers bombed the sites.

The B-2 stealth bombers flew for over 36 hours from United States to Iran over the Atlantic and carried out a massive precision strike on Iran's nuclear sites as Israel has been claiming that the Iranian regime were just weeks away from assembling a nuclear weapon.

Addressing the press at the White House, Karoline Leavitt said that the President wants peace. He always has... we see a new era in which perhaps some of these Gulf and Arab states can sign on to the Abraham Accords."

“When we look at the entirety of the intelligence that we have to this date, it concludes that these strikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities were absolutely successful. It was a total obliteration,” Leavitt said reiterating what Donald Trump has been claiming since B-2 bombers strikes.

White House rubbishes Uranium remove theory 

When asked whether Iran had shifted enriched Uranium from its nuke sites, Karoline Leavitt confirmed that no the Uranium was not moved the nuclear sites, a claim Donald Trump has been making ever since the strikes. 

On Wednesday, while addressing the press on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Donald Trump stated that Iran did not move Uranium as it was placed very very deep under the nuclear sites.

He said that Iran couldn't succeed to move the enrichment before the strikes which was badly destroyed by US B-2 bombers, sending back Iran's nuclear programme to decades back.

Trump said Israel, Iran don't know what the ‘FU*K’ they were doing 

In another statement, Donald Trump crossed the line and used the cuss words saying that both the countries Israel and Iran have been fighting for so long that they don't know what the ‘FU*K’ they were doing. The US President's remarks came when he was asked to respond on ceasefire violations by Israel and Iran. 

Published 26 June 2025 at 22:56 IST