CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday said the agency obtained evidence indicating Iran’s nuclear program was “severely damaged” by U.S. strikes, likely setting the program back years—a statement supporting President Donald Trump’s earlier claims, despite a reported U.S. intelligence assessment that found the bombings only set Iran’s program back by a few months.

Ratcliffe said in statement the CIA obtained a “body of credible evidence” indicating Iran’s nuclear program was “severely damaged” by the U.S. strikes, which includes “intelligence from a historically reliable source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years.”

The U.S. will meet with Iran “next week” to discuss a possible nuclear agreement, Trump told reporters, though he noted he doesn’t “think it’s that necessary” and “I don’t care if I have an agreement or not.”

“The only thing we would be asking for is what we were asking for before,” Trump added, “We want no nuclear, but we destroyed the nuclear.”

The White House released a statement backing Trump’s claims that U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites were “highly successful,” while featuring other supportive comments, including from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, which claimed, “The devastating U.S. strike on [Fordow] destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.”

Speaking to reporters in the Netherlands ahead of a NATO summit, Trump again insisted the U.S. bombing resulted in “complete obliteration.”

The president said the intelligence assessment—which suggested minimal damage—was “very inconclusive,” adding: “The intelligence says we don’t know…It could have been very severe.”

The president said the U.S. bombings “ended the war,” between Iran and Israel” and said the strikes impact was “essentially the same thing” as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings from World War II.

Trump also dismissed suggestions Iran managed to successfully relocate their enriched uranium before the strikes, saying: “They didn’t have a chance to get anything out, because we acted fast…it’s very hard to remove that kind of material, very hard and very dangerous for them to remove it.”

Trump dismissed the New York Times and CNN’s report on the damage assessment in a post on Truth Social which said: “THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!”

The president attacked the outlets, saying: “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 president’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff also appeared on Fox News, to refute the reports and said: “We put 12 bunker buster bombs on Fordow. There’s no doubt that it breached the canopy…and there’s no doubt that it was obliterated.”

Witkoff also told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, “it goes without saying that the leaking of that sort of information, whatever the information, whatever site it goes out on, is outrageous, it is treasonous…So it ought to be investigated and whoever did it, whoever is responsible for it should be held accountable.”

The report, according to unnamed officials interviewed by the New York Times, also says the U.S. bombing closed off the entrances to two enrichment facilities but “did not collapse their underground buildings.”

Officials told the Times more reports will follow the initial assessment as the U.S. collects more information and as Iran examines the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan sites.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al-Araby al-Jadeed, a London-based news outlet, that Iran would not return to negotiations with the U.S. if “aggression” against Iran continued, CNN reported.

Eyal Zamir, Israel’s military chief, told reporters Israel’s campaign against Iran was not over, though Israel has “concluded a significant phase” and the Israeli military’s focus “shifts back to Gaza” and dismantling Hamas.

Shortly before he left the White House for a NATO summit in the Netherlands, Trump criticized Israel and Iran and accused both of ceasefire violations saying: “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.”

Trump was particularly critical of Israel’s actions, saying “I gotta get Israel to calm down now…I don’t like the fact that Israel went out on a mission this morning and I am going to see if I can stop it.”

The president said “Israel, as soon as we made a deal…came out and dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I’ve never seen before.”

Trump said in a post on TruthSocial that Israel “is not going to attack Iran” and that all planes will turn around “while doing a friendly ‘Plane Wave.’” In another post shortly after, Trump posted that Iran will “NEVER REBUILD” its nuclear facilities.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!”

In a post on X, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote: “I have instructed the IDF, in coordination with the Prime Minister, to respond forcefully to the violation of the ceasefire by Iran through intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.”

“The Iranian regime has severely violated the ceasefire declared by the President of the United States and launched missiles toward Israel, and in accordance with the government’s policy as determined—we will respond forcefully to any violation,” he added.

Iranian state media denied Israel’s claims that it launched a fresh round of aerial attacks after the ceasefire went into effect.

The Israeli Defense Forces accused Iran of violating the ceasefire between the two countries by launching another set of missiles toward northern Israel.

A short while later, the country’s Defense Minister Israel Katz told the Times of Israel he has instructed the IDF to “respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire with intense strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.”

Israel confirmed it had agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Iran but warned that any violations by Tehran would draw a forceful response.

In a post on his Truth social platform, Trump wrote: “THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!”

Iranian state media announced a ceasefire has been “imposed” on Israel after Iran’s “successful missile attacks,” and the TV anchor claimed that Trump had “pleaded” with Iran to do so.

The annoucement then cited Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on X, who said: “As of now, there is NO ‘agreement’ on any ceasefire…However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards.”

In a post on Truth Social, Trump announced that Israel and Iran agreed to a “Complete and Total CEASEFIRE” in the next 24 hours, after days of exchanging air and missile strikes. The president offered no further details about what either side agreed to, but insisted both sides would “remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL.”

Trump said “hardly any damage was done,” while 13 of the missiles Iran fired were “knocked down” and one was “set free,” he wrote, making multiple inferences that there would be no escalation of the military conflict between Tehran and Washington, while also thanking Iran for “giving us early notice” of the counterstrikes.

Trump said Iran has “gotten it all out of their ‘system,’ and there will, hopefully, be no further hate,” writing “CONGRATULATIONS WORLD, IT’S TIME FOR PEACE!” in the series of posts.

Officials at the Department of Defense confirmed to multiple outlets that Al Udeid Air Force base was targeted by short and medium-range ballistic missiles, but no casualties have been reported from the attack.

In televised remarks, the Iranian government took credit for the attack, which it called “a mighty and successful response” to the American strikes.

Iran filed missiles toward Al Udeid Air Force Base near Doha. Majed Al-Ansari, a spokesperson for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the attack and said the nation’s air defenses “successfully thwarted the attack and intercepted the Iranian missiles.”

U.S. cities were on edge Monday morning, with Miami briefly shutting down its Metrorail after a “suspicious package” was found at Stephen P. Clark Government Center in Miami, requiring the building and the surrounding area to be evacuated, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office told Forbes, while the Miami Herald reported a bomb squad was called.

The Israeli military said it struck the routes leading up to Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility—which was targeted by U.S. bunker busters—“in order to obstruct access” to the site.

Russian President condemned the U.S. military’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling it an “absolutely unprovoked act of aggression against Iran; it has no basis or justification,” after meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow.

China has been as one of the more vocal critics of the U.S. strikes on Iran, with its foreign ministry saying the move “seriously violates the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law, and escalates tensions in the Middle East.”

According to NBC News, Iran sent a message to Trump through an intermediary during last week’s G7 summit, warning that it would activate sleeper-cells to carry out terror attacks inside the U.S.