U.S. intel found Iran did not move nuclear material from Fordo ahead of attack, Sen. Mullin says

U.S. intelligence found that Iran did not move nuclear material from its Fordo facility before American bombers blasted that site, despite a report to the contrary, Sen. Markwayne Mullin said Monday.

“They are claiming that they moved some material,” Mullin said, referring to Israel and Iran, respectively. “Our intelligence report says they didn’t,” the Oklahoma Republican said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“In fact, we actually believe they stored more of it in Fordo because they believe Fordo was impenetrable,” said Mullin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “They thought it was a safe place to be.”

But, he added, “We have the ability to destroy things that people think were undestroyable. And so we think we did a really good job.”

“However, if we find out that we didn’t, we will be working with our allies to finish the job or we will finish the job,” Mullin warned.

The Fordo facility, which is located 300 feet below a mountain southwest of Tehran, was hit by American air strikes on Saturday.

President Donald Trump said the strikes targeting Fordo, as well as two other nuclear facilities at Natanz and Isfahan, had “completely obliterated” Iran’s major enrichment facilities.

The New York Times, in a report Sunday, cited two unnamed Israeli officials with knowledge of the situation who said Iran appeared to have moved uranium and equipment from Fordo before the U.S. attack.

But Mullin on Monday said the U.S. had “severely damaged, if not completely destroyed, their ability to have a nuclear weapon.”

“We have a really good handle on what we’ve destroyed,” he said.