White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told “Good Morning America” on Monday that the administration is confident that its weekend airstrikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Leavitt spoke to “Good Morning America” amid questions about the extent of the damage done at the Fordo site in particular, which is built hundreds of feet under a mountain to the south of Tehran. It was one of three facilities attacked by U.S. bombers and cruise missiles on Saturday.
Questions have also been raised about the fate of enriched uranium processed at the site, which could potentially be used to create a nuclear weapon — depending on its level of enrichment — if it was removed from Fordo or other sites before the U.S. strike.
“We have a high degree of confidence that where those strikes took place is where Iran’s enriched uranium was stored,” Leavitt said on Monday.
“The president wouldn’t have launched the strikes if we weren’t confident in that,” Leavitt said.
“They no longer have the capability to build this nuclear weapon and threaten the world,” she added of Iran.