Washington, June 25 (UNI) US President Donald Trump has slammed leading American media agencies The New York Times and CNN accusing them of spreading fake news and "demeaning one of the most successful military operations in US history", referring to Operation Midnight Hammer under which US forces targeted three key Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend.



On Tuesday, CNN reported that the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, carried out over the weekend, did not really dismantle the country's nuclear programme but merely derailed it by months.



The New York Times published a similar report on Tuesday, saying that US strikes sealed off the entrances to the Iranian facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings.



"Fake news CNN, together with the failing New York Times, have teamed up in an attempt to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history. The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed! Both The Times and CNN are getting slammed by the public!" Trump said on Truth Social.



US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Tuesday that the United States used 12 bunker blaster bombs to hit Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment facility and the White House had no doubts that the facility was destroyed, Kyiv Independent reported.



White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said on X on Tuesday that the alleged intelligence assessment cited by CNN in its report was "flat-out wrong" and the leak was an attempt to demean Trump and discredit the fighter pilots who carried out the "perfectly executed" mission.







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