Posted on 06/17/2025 11:48:21 AM PDT by bitt
Vice President JD Vance is speaking out on Iran’s nuclear capabilities after President Trump slammed down his intel chief Tuesday morning for saying Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump publicly dismissed his own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, on Iran’s nuclear capabilities. The bold rebuke came during an early morning Air Force One gaggle on Tuesday, as Trump returned to Washington.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump said while being interviewed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “I think they were very close to having one.”
As TGP’s Cassandra MacDonald reported, Gabbard testified back in March that the intel community continues to assess that Iran has not resumed trying to build a nuclear weapon since the program was suspended by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2003.
After the blow-up, Vance decided to weigh in with his own thoughts on Iran.
“Look, I’m seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there’s a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue,” Vance wrote on X.
Vance, who is proudly America-first, pointed out that Trump has remained very consistent regarding his opposition to Iran having a nuclear weapon.
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From Vice-President Vance:
Look, I’m seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there’s a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue:
First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Over the last few months, he encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with the Iranians to accomplish this goal. The president has made clear that Iran cannot have uranium enrichment. And he said repeatedly that this would happen one of two ways—the easy way or the “other” way.
Second, I’ve seen a lot of confusion over the issue of “civilian nuclear power” and “uranium enrichment.” These are distinct issues. Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that. Meanwhile, they’ve enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose. They’ve been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a rightwing organization.
It’s one thing to want civilian nuclear energy. It’s another thing to demand sophisticated enrichment capacity. And it’s still another to cling to enrichment while simultaneously violating basic non-proliferation obligations and enriching right to the point of weapons-grade uranium.
I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I’ve yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations. I’ve yet to see a single good pushback against the IAEA’s findings.
Meanwhile, the president has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military’s focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.
He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president. And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.
But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue. And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people’s goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 17, 2025
Okay, everbody back to work.
Every time I hear/read “Supreme Leader” I think of Supreme Leader Snoke (they are both the same ugly).
Would hardly call that Trump blasting her.
Trump didn’t blast Tulsi; he disagreed with her. A few years ago, the Mossad stole a warehouse full of documents that conclusively established that Iran was working on becoming a nuclear power. It was beyond dispute.
Bull crap, he said nothing about Tulsi.
Bye Bye Tulsi.
Saddam wouldn’t give up his WMD even though they couldn’t find them. Could be the case here.
This is like capital punishment. The perp may not have done what he’s sentenced to but if there’s a long violent rap sheet are the rest of us better off?
He did not remotely “blast” her.
Persians might have a say yet. So far they appear to be a little busy following their garmins. I would be interested to see some communication from Iran that isn’t state run.
Then come the mullah-philes …
This is typical of ‘Gateway Pundit’ tactics.
He’s definitely earned some trust.
I wonder if Tulsi was set up to deliver the assessment she presented. I expect there are/were holdovers from the Biden admin who would love to make her look bad before Congress and the President.
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