White House Again Defends Success Of B-2 Raid On Iran Amid New Report Some Uranium Survived

The White House maintains that past month’s Operation Midnight Hammer "obliterated" Iran’s atomic sites contempt a caller study from The New York Times suggesting Israeli officials person concluded immoderate enriched uranium survived nan targeted U.S. attack.

According to the Times, a information of nan stockpile of near-bomb-grade enriched uranium located underground survived bombs dropped by B-2 stealth bombers June 21, 2025, which whitethorn still beryllium accessible to Iranian atomic engineers.

When asked astir nan report, Anna Kelly, a White House lawman property secretary, told Fox News, "As President Trump has said galore times, Operation Midnight Hammer wholly obliterated Iran's atomic facilities. The full world is safer acknowledgment to his decisive leadership."

The White House’s messaging reiterates what President Donald Trump has said since nan nighttime of nan attacks, which is that Iran’s atomic sites were "totally obliterated."

OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER: HISTORIC B-2 BOMBER MISSION FLEW FROM MISSOURI TO STRIKE IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES

President Donald Trump is joined by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an reside to nan federation successful nan East Room of nan White House successful Washington, D.C., June 21.  (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Operation Midnight Hammer commenced erstwhile B-2 stealth bombers took disconnected from Whiteman Air Force Base successful Missouri astatine 12:01 a.m. June 21. Some of nan bombers flew westbound and into nan Pacific arsenic a decoy, while nan main onslaught unit of 7 B-2 Spirit bombers, each pinch 2 unit members, flew silently eastward pinch minimal connection arsenic they undertook nan 18-hour formation to nan target area.

The formation required nan craft to refuel aggregate times without landing, and erstwhile overland, nan onslaught group linked up pinch escort and support craft from Central Command.

At astir 5 p.m. EST, a U.S. submarine launched complete 2 twelve Tomahawk onshore onslaught cruise missiles against cardinal aboveground infrastructure targets arsenic nan main onslaught unit entered Iranian airspace.

MIDNIGHT HAMMER IS 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED' BUT THERE'S ONE BIG RED FLAG

Iran's Fordow atomic site, left; a U.S. stealth B-2 bomber. (Reuters; Getty)

Additional strategies were utilized to deceive Iranian forces arsenic nan B-2 onslaught group approached Fordow and Natanz. A full of 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) weapons, commonly known arsenic bunker-busters, were dropped connected Fordow and Natanz, while Tomahawk missiles launched by U.S. submarines were past to strike, hitting targets astatine Isfahan.

After nan mission, Trump posted connected Truth Social that nan U.S. subject carried retired "massive precision strikes connected 3 cardinal atomic accommodation successful nan Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan."

Trump besides addressed nan federation connected television, touting nan occurrence of Operation Midnight Hammer.

"Iran's atomic enrichment accommodation person been wholly and wholly obliterated," Trump said. "And Iran, nan bully of nan Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, early attacks would beryllium acold greater and a batch easier."

PENTAGON FLEXES US MILITARY'S DECOYS AND STRATEGIC DECEPTION THAT TOOK IRAN AND WORLD BY SURPRISE

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth takes a mobility from a newsman during a news convention astatine nan Pentagon successful Arlington, Va., June 22. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth person railed against nan "fake news" media ever since nan attacks for casting uncertainty that nan U.S. strikes connected Iran destroyed nan country’s atomic program.

While astatine a NATO acme past month, Hegseth slammed CNN and The New York Times, arguing they activity "to find a measurement to spin" nan news.

"There's a logic nan president calls retired clone news for what it is," Hegseth said. "These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these aerial defenders. The accomplishment and nan courageousness it took to spell into force territory flying 36 hours connected behalf of nan American group and nan world to take retired a atomic program is beyond what anyone successful this assemblage tin fathom." 

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"And past nan instinct, nan small heart of CNN, nan small heart of nan New York Times, is to effort to find a measurement to rotation it for their ain governmental reasons, to effort to wounded President Trump aliases our country," he added. "They don't attraction what nan troops think. They don't attraction what nan world thinks. They want to rotation it to effort to make him look bad based connected a leak. 

"Of course, we've each seen plentifulness of leakers. And what [do] leakers do? They person agendas. And what do they do? Do they stock nan full accusation aliases conscionable nan portion that they want to introduce?"

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.