The day after the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, aimed at de-escalating tensions in the Middle East, the American government has not failed to notice the leak of a preliminary report from U.S. intelligence services regarding Tehran’s nuclear program. According to the report, American strikes did not achieve a substantial “termination” of the nuclear program, but rather delayed it for a period of just a few months. This issue led Donald Trump to launch a sharp attack against American media outlets (CNN, New York Times), calling their reports “fake news,” and dominated the American president’s statements before the NATO Summit being held in The Hague. “We don’t really know what happened, Israel will give us the information, they will deal with this issue extensively, but I believe it was completely destroyed. Whatever was above ground was destroyed, I believe their nuclear facilities were completely destroyed, they couldn’t preserve them. They didn’t have time,” he said among other things, emphasizing that the program has already been set back for decades.
The U.S. president was also asked about Iran’s threats to continue uranium enrichment. “The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. They want to recover. We won’t let that happen,” Trump emphasized, signaling that the United States is not ruling out new strikes against Iran.
Does Israel contradict Trump?
The American president, amid statements that sometimes contradict each other, also made a declaration before the Summit that has already been widely discussed in Israel: The fact that Israeli agents have already inspected the Fordow facility in Iran after the strikes with bunker-buster bombs, stating characteristically that – as he was informed – the facility has been completely destroyed.
🚨 Breaking: Trump reveals that Israeli agents entered Fordow after the US strike 👇
“Israel’s guys went in there [Fordow] after the hit, and they said it was total obliteration” pic.twitter.com/1UAahF1sfM
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) June 25, 2025
Israeli officials, however, commented on the matter to Israel’s public radio Kan, emphasizing (as expected) that they know nothing about what the American president said.
Iran hardens its stance – Suspends cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency
Iran, for its part, has never accepted claims of “total destruction” of its nuclear program, while today, the country’s parliament approved a bill that provides for the suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), according to a report by the Iranian website Nournews.
According to an Al Jazeera report citing the new bill, IAEA inspectors will only be able to enter Iran with explicit approval from the Supreme Council of National Security and on the condition that the organization provides guarantees for the security of Iranian nuclear facilities.
This move is expected to intensify tensions in relations between Tehran and international observers, especially amid broader concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and talks for reviving the 2015 Agreement (JCPOA), which was also at the center of the Security Council meeting on Tuesday (24/6) focusing on Iran’s nuclear program and the 2015 Agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Optimistic messages for Gaza – Hamas talks and Mahmoud Abbas’s letter praising Trump
Amid these developments, a Hamas official told the French Press Agency today that the Islamist Palestinian organization’s contacts with mediators, aimed at achieving a ceasefire with Israel, never stopped and have intensified in recent hours. “Our contacts with our Egyptian and Qatari mediator brothers never stopped and have intensified in recent hours,” said Taher Al-Nounou, a senior Hamas official. The war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has been raging for over 20 months.
Meanwhile, as reported by Al Jazeera and the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wrote a letter to Trump, applauding his efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Iran and offering to work with him on another agreement that would bring lasting peace and stability to Palestinians.
In the letter, Abbas, who leads the Palestinian Authority that administers parts of the occupied West Bank, stated that he is ready to cooperate with the U.S. and other Arab and international countries to negotiate a comprehensive peace agreement that would end the Israeli occupation.
“We hope and trust in your ability to write a new history for our region, which will restore to the region the peace that has been lost for generations,” the letter states, as reported by the Wafa agency.
Along the same lines, Donald Trump, arriving at the NATO Summit, expressed his belief that a Gaza ceasefire agreement is very close and that the American strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities contributed to this. “I think wonderful progress is being made on Gaza. I think because of the attack we made, I think we’re going to have very good news,” he said, speaking to reporters.
He continued: “I think it helped a little, that it showed strength. Even before that, we were very close to having a Gaza agreement.”
