The Washington Post is reporting a new leaked report from the US government, in which they obtained new intelligence directly from Iranians on the damage assessment of President Trump’s strikes last week.

The Iranians suggest that the damage wasn’t as extensive as they expected:

The United States obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing this month’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected, said four people familiar with the classified intelligence circulating within the U.S. government.

The communication, intended to be private, included Iranian government officials speculating as to why the strikes directed by President Donald Trump were not as destructive and extensive as they anticipated, these people said. Like some others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

 
But the White House fiercely disputes the context of the leaked report, suggesting there’s no way the Iranians could know this and wondered why the Washington Post was helping people commit felonies with these leaks:

The Trump administration did not dispute the existence of the intercepted communications, which have not been previously reported, but strenuously disagreed with the Iranians’ conclusions and cast doubt on their ability to assess the damage at the three nuclear facilities targeted in the U.S. operation.

“It’s shameful that the Washington Post is helping people commit felonies by publishing out of context leaks,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “The notion that unnamed Iranian officials know what happened under hundreds of feet of rubble is nonsense. Their nuclear weapons program is over.”

When asked about the intercepted communications, a Trump administration official said the Iranians were “wrong because we’ve destroyed their metal conversion facility. We know that our weapons were delivered precisely where we wanted them to be delivered and they had the effect that we wanted.”

During classified congressional briefings last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe told lawmakers that several key nuclear sites were completely destroyed, including Iran’s metal conversion operations, said a U.S. official. The facility, which is key to building a bomb’s explosive core, would take years to rebuild, said the official. Ratcliffe also said the U.S. intelligence community assesses that the “vast majority” of Iran’s enriched uranium is “likely buried at Isfahan and Fordow.”