Did Israel and the United States obliterate Iran's nuclear program? Donald Trump says they did.

Other analysts say Iran's facilities are seriously damaged, but that the story of the Iranian nuclear program is far from over.

It's premature and counterproductive, they say, to claim total victory. What's the actual truth?

We'll try to separate the signal from the noise next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. So let's start with a little etymology.

Obliterate comes from the Latin obliterare, which originally meant to blot out or erase letters or words.

Today, the main use of the word

obliterate is to describe what did or did not happen to the Fordow underground uranium enrichment

plant, 125 miles south of Tehran when it was bombed by the United States Air Force. For reasons

we will discuss tonight, President Trump believes it very important to claim that the operation against Iran's

nuclear program was an unalloyed, absolute, complete victory requiring no follow-through.

The truth is, it's actually much too early to come to definitive conclusions about the damage done.

Joining me tonight to discuss Trump, Netanyahu, Khomey, and the true state of affairs in the Middle East post-attack

are Shane Harris, who covers intelligence and national security for the Atlantic.

David Ignatius is a columnist at the Washington Post.

Andrea Mitchell is the chief Washington and foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News,

and Ashley Parker covers the White House for the Atlantic.

Thank you all very much for being with us tonight.

David, I want to turn to you first to give an overall assessment, but let's listen to Donald

Trump talk about the attack Saturday.

The U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities.

In the Iranian regime, the strikes were a spectacular military success.

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