Defense officials confirm that Bunker Busters defines the Tehran atomic program up to two years

The “Bunker Busting” bombs fell on Iranian nuclear sites last month by American forces degraded the Tehran atomic program up to two years, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday.

“We have degraded their program from one to two years, at least intel assessments within the Department (of Defense) assess this,” the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Sean Parnell, told journalists.

“We believe that Iran’s nuclear capacity has been seriously degraded, perhaps even their ambition to build a bomb,” he added, although security experts told Fox News Digital that Tehran would probably not be dissuaded in his ambition to build a nuclear weapon.

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The spokesperson Sean Parnell speaks at a press conference at the Pentagon on March 17, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Images Alex Wong / Getty)

The announcement reflects a much more positive assessment concerning the success of the strikes of June 22 which targeted the nuclear sites of Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz that the previous estimates concerning the extent to which the atomic capacities of Tehran had been degraded.

Rafael Grossi, head of the UN Atomic Energy International Agency (AIEA) over the weekend, warned that Iran could resume uranium enriching in a few months.

The comments also coincided with reports that Iran may have been able to move some of its uranium stocks enriched with grade close to the weapon, or perhaps centrifugal, after satellite images have shown More than a dozen freight trucks were spotted on the Fordwow nuclear site before the American strikes.

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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage to the installation of enrichment of Fordow in Iran after the American strikes, Sunday June 22, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

The United States has noticed with fervor that all intelligence suggests that Iran has managed to keep its nuclear capacities out of site. Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, got angry when he was asked for the possibility of journalists.

Fox News Digital confirmed that Israel continued to monitor the security situation.

The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Aragchi, acknowledged this week that there were serious damage to Ford facilities, although he also insisted that “technology and knowledge are still there”.

The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a joint press conference with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs in Moscow on April 18, 2025. (Getty Images)

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“No one knows exactly what happened in Fordow. That said, what we know so far is that the facilities have been seriously and strongly damaged,” said Aragchi in an interview with CBS this week.

Although according to Parnell on Wednesday, “all the intelligences we saw (have) led to believe that Iran – these facilities in particular, have been completely erased”.