Trump says that Intelligence Director, Toulcy Gabbard, is “wrong” about the Iranian nuclear program

Washington – President Trump said on Friday that the director of national intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard, was “wrong” when it witnessed in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, on the occasion of the second time in a week, and the president refused to evaluate the intelligence director he chose.

The White House said this week that Iran has everything it needs to build a nuclear weapon and only needs the green light of Iran’s supreme leader, with the ability to prepare a nuclear weapon within weeks. Mr. Trump said that Iran was “very close to” a nuclear weapon.

In March, Gabbard at Capitol Hill witnessed that the United States “continues to evaluate that Iran does not build a nuclear weapon and the Supreme Leader of Khamna did not declare the nuclear weapons program that it suspended in 2003.” Gabbard later insisted that she and the president on the same page.

Mr. Trump rejected the general evaluation of his intelligence community for Iran on Friday, and the Gabdard specifically, as the White House says that the president will decide whether to join Israel in it. Stroke It is Iran Within two weeks.

When the President arrived in Pedmiest, New Jersey, on Friday, a reporter asked him: “What is the intelligence that you have to build a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community said that they have no evidence that they are at this stage.”

“Well, my intelligence community is wrong.” “Who said this in the intelligence community?”

The correspondent replied, “Your director of national intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard.”

Mr. Trump said, “It is wrong.”

The President has previously rejected Gabbard’s testimony earlier this week, on his way back from the Group 7 summit in Canada. One of the correspondents noted that Gabdar witnessed in March that the intelligence community had been that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.

“I don’t care what I said,” the president told reporters on the Air Force. “I think they were about to get one.”

in After xGabbard accused the media of “taking my testimony outside the context.”

“America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to put the final touches on the association,” Gabbard wrote.

Vice President JD Vance Books on x On Tuesday that “Toulcy’s certificate was in March, and many have changed since then.”

The president was briefed on the risks and benefits of bombing FordMultiple sources have been told that the most nuclear sites in Iran. His mentality Is this necessary due to the risk of arms production in a relatively short period of time.

White House press secretary Caroline Levit told reporters on Thursday that the president would make a decision on whether Israel’s strikes will be joined within two weeks and allow. The diplomatic path To play.

“Based on the fact that there is a great opportunity for negotiations that may take place or do not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision on the next week,” the President said in a statement written by Levitte at a White House press conference. The Iranian Foreign Minister met with a group of European diplomats in Geneva on Friday.

On Friday, he was asked whether the strike could be possible before the deadline for two weeks has ended.