Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s top envoy to the Middle East, blasted what he called “treasonous” leaking of information after multiple media outlets reported that the administration’s strikes on Iran only set its nuclear program back a few months.
“Well, it goes without saying that leaking that type of information, whatever the information, whatever side it comes out on, is outrageous,” Steve Witkoff told Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night. “It’s treasonous.”
“So it ought to be investigated and whoever did it, whoever is responsible for it should have been — should be held accountable,” Witkoff said. “It could hurt lives in the future. There is — leaking is a completely unacceptable thing.”
CNN, The New York Times and other news outlets reported Tuesday that an internal government report found strikes on the three facilities over the weekend delayed Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months, despite initial assertions from Trump administration officials that those sites had been destroyed.
The report also said Iran had moved much of its enriched uranium before the strikes, according to multiple outlets.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday at the NATO summit in the Netherlands that a leak investigation was underway, while Trump blasted the news outlets that reported on the internal assessment as “scum.”
Trump and other top officials have been adamant that the nuclear facilities were “obliterated,” even as experts have said it would take days to determine the extent of the damage.