WASHINGTON (TNND) — The White House pushed back on a report from Bloomberg that stated Iran was more likely to obtain a nuclear weapon than it was before the war started.
The Bloomberg report came out Wednesday and stated that Iran was more likely to secretly develop a nuclear weapon due to the international nuclear monitoring agency can’t inspect enriched uranium due to the facilities that were destroyed by the U.S.
The international nuclear monitor agency stated that it won’t be able to “draw any conclusion” about the enriched uranium that was last seen at now bombed sites.
“This gives rise to a proliferation concern as this nuclear material, which the agency was not able to verify, includes a large amount of high-enriched uranium,” the IAEA said in a document cited by Bloomberg.
A spokesperson for the White House pushed back on the report.
“Iran’s nuclear facilities were obliterated during Operation Midnight Hammer, and the conventional shield intended to protect their nuclear program – comprised of their ballistic missiles, production facilities, and navy – is gone,” White House deputy spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in an interview with the New York Post.
She called the analysis by Bloomberg “stupid.”
“Suggesting that Iran can more capably produce a nuclear weapon with no functioning nuclear enrichment facilities or military defenses is an indescribably stupid analysis by Bloomberg, which we would have shared had they reached out to us for comment,” she continued.
