New Delhi, June 25 -- A preliminary US intelligence assessment has concluded that the June 21 airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have set back Tehran's nuclear program by only a few months - far less than what President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have publicly claimed.

According to three sources cited by Reuters, the report was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon's primary intelligence body. One source said the program may have been delayed "only a month or two," noting that Iran's enriched uranium stocks remained intact.

"The U.S. did not know the extent of the damage yet," one US official told the news outlet on condition of anonymity.

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