Israeli military says Iran nuclear sites 'set back by years'

The Israeli military on Wednesday said that damage to Iran's nuclear sites from what US President Donald Trump has termed the "12-day war" has set it back "years".

The declaration contradicts US intelligence documents reviewed by CNN and The New York Times one day earlier, in which the sites were deemed to have only been set back a few months. 

"Based on the assessment of senior officials in the Intelligence Directorate of the Israeli Army, the damage to the nuclear program is not a pinpoint damage but a systemic one - the cumulative achievement allows us to say that Iran's nuclear project has suffered serious, extensive, and deep damage and has been set back by years - we will not allow Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction," the Israeli military said on its Farsi-language account on X.