Hours later, President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence publicly said he was “wrong” in his assessment of Iran’s efforts to obtain nuclear weapons, Gabbard insisted X that the media was unfairly sowing division between her and Trump.
“The fraudulent media intentionally disseminates my testimony from context and spreads it as a way to produce fake news,” Gabbard said in a social media post that he highlighted a video of her previous testimony about issues on Capitol Hill.
She continued. “The US has the intelligence that Iran can produce nuclear weapons in terms of being able to produce nuclear weapons within weeks to months if it decides to complete Congress. President Trump has made it clear that this will not happen.
What she testified: On Capitol Hill in March, Gabbard testified that the US intelligence community “continues to assess Iran as not building nuclear weapons, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not approved the nuclear weapons programme that was stopped in 2003.”
More Context: CNN previously reported that the US intelligence agency evaluated Iran as unable to produce and deliver nuclear weapons as a target of choice, according to four people familiar with the assessment.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the head of the international watchdog, said last week that Iran had accumulated enough uranium, well enriched at levels just below weapons grade, to potentially create nine nuclear bombs called “the issue of serious concern.”
The challenge for Iran is simply producing crude nuclear weapons. Experts say that if Iran decides, it can potentially do it within a few months, but it could also produce work delivery systems that could take longer.
