Donald Trump waved away the advice of the entire US spy infrastructure and its assessment that Iran was not trying to build a nuclear weapon.
That assessment was presented to the US Congress in March by Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s hand-picked director of National Intelligence.
"The IC [intelligence community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon," Ms Gabbard said.
"Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorised a nuclear weapon program that he suspended in 2003."
On Wednesday, Donald Trump said simply, "She’s wrong."
Today, Gabbard took to X to try to repair the relationship with Trump, saying the media was intentionally taking her testimony out of context.
"America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalise the assembly. President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree."
The "missing" context was that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was "at its highest levels, and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons".
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