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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump threatens to force journalists to reveal who leaked report undermining his narrative on Iran bombing

Donald Trump inisisted that Iran's supply of enriched nuclear material was destroyed on Sunday - (Sunday Morning Futures)

Donald Trump threatened in an interview Sunday to force journalists who published an initial U.S. intelligence assessment of his administration’s strikes on Iran to reveal their sources as his effort to plaster a positive narrative over the aftermath continues.

The U.S. president spoke on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, and insisted once again that U.S. airstrikes targeting three Iranian facilities last weekend completed the task of disabling the Iranian nuclear weapons development program. The strikes, Trump claimed, obliterated the Iranian government’s entire (or a majority) of its supply of enriched uranium — he denied claims from Iranian officials that it was moved out of the area before the Fordow site was hit.

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