Posted on 06/18/2025 7:43:37 AM PDT by jcon40
President Donald Trump and his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are “on the same page” related to assessments of how close the Iranian regime was to obtaining a nuclear weapon, a senior Trump administration official insisted to Just the News, as Trump argued on Tuesday that the Iranians were “very close” to obtaining atomic weaponry.
Trump told reporters on Air Force One yesterday that he believed the Iranians had been “very close” to getting a nuclear weapon prior to the Israeli air strikes which began hammering Iranian nuclear facilities and the Israeli targeting of Iranian nuclear scientists starting late last week.
When a reporter contended that Gabbard had testified in March that the U.S. intelligence community was not building a nuclear weapon, Trump replied in the early hours of Tuesday morning that “I don’t care what she said, I think they were very close to having one.”
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I am assuming this is won’t lead to full fledged war but Iran just caving into the deal Trump has had in mind all along…🤞
Yes, and Iraq has weapons if mass destruction.
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They are trying to corner Tulsi into saying something so she can be charged (by Dem’s) with “lying to Congress.
… and now they don’t.
Items:
1) Iran essentially offered to allow inspections and shut down enrichment and more or less everything else desired on the nuclear front. It was not to be enough. What is desired is end to support of non nuclear activities against Israel. That would be control of the foreign policy of a sovereign state. How could any country accept that?
2) Most countries of the world involved in any sort of conflict would want nuclear weapons, certainly if their adversary has them. Imagine the plight of India if it faced a Pakistan with nuclear weapons and had none of its own.
3) Iran is a signatory of the nuclear non proliferation treaty. Israel is not.
There’s no evidence Iran crossed the threshold of 90% enriched Uraninium...but that’s not good enough for the crazed Zionists.
They said back in 2006 the WMD they didn’t find in Iraq got moved to Syria setting us up for the Syrian Civil War in 2011.
This is all about using imagined Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify war from George W. Bush to the present.
Nuclear power plants typically use uranium enriched to 3-5% U-235. Why else has Iran gone to greater than 60%? How do you know they have not reached 90%?
Hard to be on the same page when you need to come back later to adjust the story to support the moves Israel decided to make after you gave your report.
*sigh*
If “he believed the Iranians had been “very close” to getting a nuclear weapon prior to the Israeli air strikes” was true,
...then the smart play would have been to park a few CVNs in the region during those “60 days” of negotiation.
The larger question is not why gabbard said what she said (still unresolved)...
...but why she still has the job.
Just like Saddam was back in '03?
How did that work out for us, folks?
But there is PLENTY of evidence they are trying desperately to do so. Which means, given enough time...they will.
We do not agree on many things, but those are salient points.
I believe Iraq's uranium enrichment capabilities never exceeded Power Grade.
The same can not be said for Iran's enriched uranium.
Iran has been weeks/days/hours from building a nuclear bomb since I was in High school back in the 1990s.
How about, instead of chasing a Macguffin object, just use actual revenge as our motive? I’d actually be fine with payback for the 1979 hostages, and funding of global jihad, building IEDs that kill and main our troops , and even taking our sailors hostage recently when Obama was POTUS.
Enough with this nuke bomb BS, they’ve never even tested one! But they are minutes away from building a bomb that works and delivering it? With what? How?
Iran is actively enriching uranium to 60%.
There's no reason to to enrich uranium above ~5% to generate nuclear power.
The last thing the base or the country wants is an emphasis on another foreign war, that at best, only marginally effects our national security.
It’s not the weapon, lots of countries have nukes and one has even used them on people but it’s the threats and rhetoric from the Iranian leadership, the willingness to use them on Israel and the US. Iran cannot be allowed to have the bomb. Period.
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