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US President Donald Trump Friday threatened to sue the New York Times and CNN (CNN) , the New York Times reported, the reason is that the two US media published an assessment report after the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying that this attack only delayed the Iranian nuclear program for a few months, this contradicts US officials’ claims that Iran’s nuclear facilities have been\u201cCompletely destroyed\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the report, a personal lawyer for Donald Trump wrote to the New York Times claiming the report had damaged the president’s reputation and demanding a \u201cRetraction and apology\u201d. In the letter, the lawyer accused the report of being\u201cFalse\u201d, \u201cDefamatory\u201d and\u201cUnpatriotic\u201d.<\/p>\n
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The New York Times on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s request. The paper said Donald Trump administration officials had subsequently confirmed the report, published by US Defense Intelligence Agency, and its conclusions. \u201cThere is no need to withdraw,\u201d wrote Davy McCraw, the paper’s legal adviser.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not apologise,\u201d he added. \u201cWe did our best to tell the truth and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
CNN was among the first to report on the preliminary intelligence assessment. A CNN spokesman confirmed that the media had received similar legal threats from Donald Trump and had responded.<\/p>\n
Earlier, CNN reported on \u201cPreliminary assessment shows U.S. military strikes fail to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities.\u201d The report, which was provided by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, said: Previous US strikes on Iran’s three nuclear facilities have not destroyed the core of its centrifuges used to enrich uranium, \u201cStill intact.\u201d. \u201cThe New York Times\u201d also said that the U. S. military strike only sealed the entrance to the two nuclear facilities, and did not destroy its underground buildings. Iran’s nuclear program may be delayed, but the delay is not expected to exceed six months. Donald Trump later responded on social media that it was \u201cFake news,\u201d while White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt offered an intriguing response, saying \u201cThis so-called assessment is completely wrong.\u201d, it was classified as\u201cTop secret\u201d and leaked to CNN by nobody in the Intelligence Community.<\/p>\n
The Iranian government has taken the necessary measures to ensure that the Iranian nuclear program can continue after the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran of Israeli and American military strikes, the Iranian president, Mohammad Islami, said Tuesday. The Iraqi side is assessing the losses caused by the military strike and has taken the necessary measures. \u201cThe restart plan has been prepared in advance and our strategy is to ensure that production and services are not disrupted,\u201d Eslami said in a statement broadcast on Iranian state television. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bajaer said in an Al Jazeera interview on the 25th that the country’s nuclear facilities were \u201cSeverely damaged\u201d after \u201cMultiple attacks\u201d by Israel and the US. In an interview with French media, International Atomic Energy Agency Venetian Grosso said it was a \u201cPolitical assessment\u201d that US air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities were \u201cDecades\u201d behind the nuclear program of Iran, it is not my intention to criticize this claim, but Iran’s nuclear facilities have been seriously damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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