Trump disavows spy chief Gabbard's take on Iran's nuclear program

21/6/2025 7:24

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his Director

of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was wrong in suggesting

there was no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon.



Trump contested intelligence assessments relayed earlier

this year by his spy chief that Tehran was not building a

nuclear weapon when he spoke with reporters at an airport in

Morristown, New Jersey.



"She's wrong," Trump said.



In March, Gabbard testified to Congress that the U.S.

intelligence community continued to believe that Tehran was not

building a nuclear weapon. "The (intelligence community)

continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon,"

she said.



On Friday, Gabbard said in a post on the social media

platform X that: "America has intelligence that Iran is at the

point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to

months, if they decide to finalize the assembly. President Trump

has been clear that can't happen, and I agree."



She said the media has taken her March testimony "out of

context" and was trying to "manufacture division."