US President Donald Trump and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have expressed some doubts about the scale of damage caused to Iran's nuclear facilities after US strikes over the weekend. The doubts were raised following a leaked Pentagon report that said Iran's nuclear program was set back only a few months.

The information was very vague, Trump told reporters at the NATO Summit in The Hague, introducing for the first time an element of uncertainty into his statements after he had been talking for days about total destruction. The information says we don't know. It could have been very serious [damage]. That's what the information shows, he added. The US president then stated again that the damage was very serious and that there was a disaster.

Accompanying Trump to the Summit, the US Secretary of Defense also appeared to downplay his previous statement, according to which Iran's ability to build a nuclear bomb in the future has been eliminated.

Hegseth has now described the damage to Iran's nuclear facilities from US and Israeli bombings as moderate to severe and said there will be an FBI investigation into the leak of the Pentagon report. He also claimed that the leaked information is false .

For its part, the Israeli military said it was still trying to assess the damage caused by the bombings at the nuclear facilities.

Israeli military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said the results of the airstrikes were even better than we expected."I can say right now that the assessment is that we have achieved a significant blow to [Iran's] nuclear infrastructure. I can say that we have pushed them back years."