The senator recalled that in March, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated that "Iran has not taken any action to build a bomb." "And on Monday of this week, we received confirmation that the intelligence data has not changed," Warner added.
We are talking about Gabbard's written introductory speech to the special committee on intelligence on March 25, in which the director summarized the agency's conclusions about Iran from 18 US intelligence units: according to her, the intelligence community still believes that "Iran is not building nuclear weapons, but the supreme leader [Ali] Khamenei did not authorize the nuclear weapons program, which he suspended in 2003."
US President Donald Trump claims that Iran was close to developing nuclear weapons before the Israeli strikes. rbc.ru.
Reporters reminded him of Gabbard's assessment of US intelligence, which contradicts such statements, to which the Republican replied: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close [in Iran]."
