Operation Midnight Hammer,<\/a> did not completely destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\nTrump has remained firm that the sites were “totally obliterated,” and the White House has strongly pushed back against the report. And both the\u00a0Israeli\u00a0and\u00a0Iranian\u00a0governments agree that the sites were badly damaged.<\/p>\n
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee told Fox News Digital that they were confident in the president\u2019s assessment and pushed back against the DIA\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n
\n“First of all, one of the things I’d consider is the DIA said that Ukraine would be wiped out in three days,” Sen.\u00a0Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told Fox News Digital. “And second, whatever the damage to Fordow is, the damage to the [nuclear] capabilities of Iran are devastating.”<\/p>\n
Cramer said that the effectiveness of the bombing, which was carried out by several B-2 bombers armed with bunker-busting bombs, could not be “overstated,” and warned that lingering questions surrounding the effectiveness of the operation were just “fodder for political discussion.”<\/p>\n
“I think the mission was accomplished,” he said.<\/p>\n
Senate Armed Services Committee Chair\u00a0Roger Wicker, R-Miss., had not yet read the report, but called the DIA\u2019s finding and subsequent news reports “bogus.” Wicker\u2019s sentiment came just after Senate Republicans met behind closed doors with Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter.<\/p>\n
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