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SvennoJ on 20 June 2025
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US director of national intelligence responds to Trump calling Iran assessment ‘wrong’

Tulsi Gabbard has responded to Trump’s claim that she was “wrong” when she told members of Congress in March that the US intelligence community assessed that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.

In a post on X, Gabbard did not directly address Trump’s statement, but claimed that media reports were taking her statements to Congress “out of context and spreading fake news to manufacture division”.

However, Gabbard clearly stated during her testimony that “the IC (intelligence community) continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamanei has not authorised the nuclear weapons programme he suspended in 2003”.

In her post, Gabbard repeated the White House’s position that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon “within weeks to months”, although she did not make such a statement during her March testimony.

Gabbard, a former Democratic member of Congress, had railed against US military intervention abroad throughout her political career.


https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/congressional-testimonies/congressional-testimonies-2025/4061-ata-hpsci-opening-statement-as-delivered

"The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. We continue to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program."

She does say Iran's enriched Uranium stock pile is at its highest, but it takes a bit more than weeks to months to build a Nuclear bomb...

The development of the first atomic bombs, as part of the Manhattan Project, took approximately two to three years from the initial stages of research to the Trinity test and the subsequent use of the bombs in Japan.This involved a massive, collaborative effort across multiple sites and employed over 130,000 people.

See Oppenheimer.


Anyway Trump clearly told her to get back on script or else...