Trump says US intelligence ‘wrong’ about Iran not building nuclear bomb | Israel-Iran conflict News

President Donald Trump said that his national information director was “false” when she testified That Iran did not build a nuclear weapon and that the supreme chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had not reautorized the country’s suspended nuclear weapons program.

The comments come after Trump earlier this week has questioned the report on the March 25 report of Tulsi Gabbard at the Congress, in which she reiterated the evaluation of the American intelligence community. Trump on Tuesday told journalists: “I don’t care” that the conclusion of the intelligence community contradicted its own complaintsSaying that Iran was in the late stages of the development of a nuclear weapon.

But speaking on Friday, Trump went further.

A journalist asked: “What intelligence do I have that Iran build a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community said that it had no evidence.”

The president replied: “Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who, in the intelligence community, said that? “

“Your DNI [director of national intelligence]Tulsi Gabbard, ”replied the journalist.

“She’s wrong,” said Trump.

Gabbard seemed to come to Trump’s defense later Friday.

“America has intelligence that Iran is to the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon in weeks in months, if they decide to finalize the assembly,” she wrote in an article on social networks. “President Trump has been clear that it cannot happen, and I agree.”

However, this declaration does not contradict its previous evaluation according to which Iran does not build a weapon. No well -known American intelligence assessment concludes that Iran arms its nuclear program.

It is extremely rare for an American president to openly contradict the country’s intelligence community, criticism accusing Trump of not taking into account the blatant evidence to justify a direct direct involvement of the United States in the fighting, according to the main political analyst of Al Jazeera, Marwan Bishara.

“It’s not just one person, a team that says something,” said Bishara. “It is the entire intelligence community in the United States. That he would reject them … it’s just surprising. “

Speaking on Friday, Trump also seemed to minimize the prospect that the United States negotiates a cease-fire agreement between Iran and Israel, saying that it “could” support such an agreement, while adding: “Israel is doing well in terms of war, and I think you would say that Iran is doing less well”.

“It is difficult to make this request right now. When someone wins, it’s more difficult than when they lose,” he added.

Reporting Washington, DC, Heidi Zhou Castro from Al Jazeera noted that Trump “really pointed out that he would not make an effort to ask Israel to relieve his air bombing of Iranian targets”.

“It seems that Trump is very squarely on the side of Israel as things progress, and … it seems that he does not lend towards the path of diplomacy, however, once again, he gives himself only two weeks to make a final decision,” she said.

Trump said on Thursday that he would take fifteen days To decide the American response to the conflict. Experts say that the decision is likely to be a transformer.

The United States is considered one of the rare countries with the leverage to put pressure on Israel to withdraw from the edge of the regional war on a wider scale.

At the same time, the involvement of the American army is considered to be the key to the mission declared by Israel to completely dismantle the nuclear program of Iran, which depends on destroying it the Ford-Ford enrichment factory.

A successful attack on installation require The two 30,000 pounds (13,000 kg) GBU-57 GBU-57 Massive Ordance Petrator and B-2 bombers had to deliver it.

Addressing journalists on Friday, Trump also minimized the potential role of European countries in the de -escalation of the situation. It came a few hours after the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi encounter The best diplomats in France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the EU in Geneva.

“Europe will not be able to help,” said the American president.