White House calls for jail time for leak of intelligence on US strikes against Iran

White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt said on June 25 that the Washington government believes that the staff who disclosed preliminary intelligence about the results of the US strike on Iran to CNN should be sentenced to prison. According to CNN on June 24, citing sources, the US intelligence community believes that the US military’s strike on Iran’s three nuclear facilities, Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, in the early morning of June 22 did not destroy the main components of Iran’s nuclear program. According to the initial assessment of the intelligence department, the attack is likely to only delay Iran’s acquisition of nuclear bombs by a few months. According to the channel, the information was provided by the staff of the US Defense Intelligence Agency based on the analysis conducted by the US Central Command after the US attack. The channel’s sources said that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was not destroyed and the centrifuges were basically “undamaged.” Similar reports soon appeared in major US media. The White House and the Pentagon said that the information cited by CNN was not true. CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on June 25 that the data obtained showed that Iran’s nuclear program was seriously damaged by the US military strike. The two stressed that it would take Iran several years to restore its destroyed nuclear facilities. In his speech after the NATO summit in The Hague, US President Trump said that the conclusion of the US Defense Intelligence Agency leaked to the media on June 24 was only a preliminary conclusion.