Four American officials told the Washington Post that after the direct confrontation between Israel and Iran ended, Washington managed to intercept private conversations between Iranian officials discussing the damage from American strikes that occurred exactly a week ago. According to intelligence gathered from these conversations, the strikes were "less destructive than expected," according to four American officials familiar with the classified information obtained by the Americans. "The attacks authorized by Trump were not as destructive and extensive as we expected," Iranian officials said in these conversations.