Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.
The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.
But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
The best hint that Iran has no nukes is that the US is attacking them. If they had nukes they would keep away.
Trump has always shown us he doesn’t need intelligence.
Okay so we believe Tulsi Gabbard now?
Yes she works for Russia and they’re friends with Iran.
So we can’t really trust either.
What is that?
I think he’s possibly talking at the UN or some security council as they plaque in front of him says “United States”, at a guess that wouldn’t be necessary in front of Congress. I might be wrong though, I’m not from the US.
That’s Secretary of State Colin Powell testifying to Congress about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, during the Bush Jr. administration, I think.
It’s not Congress. It’s the UN. And he was doing a really stupid publicity stunt about how that vial could hold anthrax to kill them all. And then went on about WMDs in Iraq.
That’s Secretary of State Colin Powell
testifyinglying to Congress about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, during the Bush Jr. administration, I think.I had to.
In fairness to Colin Powell, my understand was he didn’t know it was a lie/ trumped up evidence at the time, and was pretty bitter about it in later years.
The Bush administration getting away with all their criminal shit paved the way for Trump.
Tbf I doubt it was new in politics
Not only is trump ignoring this, but lots and lots of shitlibs on this site are also.
yeeeah… shrug, Trump ignores them all. And why shouldn’t he? They didn’t prevent him from happening, what’s the point of the CIA, NSA etc when they either knew about him & putin, and let hit happen, or, they didn’t know, even though it’s been obvious since the 80s?
Nice job Intel community, you shot us all in the face.
So we oppose US intelligence agencies overthrowing democratically elected leaders in other countries but not their own?
The situation could be more nuanced. Putin lost in Syria and Europe is split from Russia and massively spending on weapons. That’s already a huge win, maybe big enough to accept a bleeding face.
tell that to the tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians murdered.
When was that ever a concern for the elite in power?
him & putin
obvious since the 80s
I can see a major problem with that timeline, but I suppose wild conspiracy theories don’t have to make sense
The more he dismiss America’s intelligence agencies, the more i believe them.
Yep exactly. If he says something I assume the opposite is true. I’m not saying this for comedy value, I genuinely do
I have read a little bit about the construction of a Nuclear Bomb and i must say, they’re surprisingly simple to make.
Essentially, you take a bunch of radioactive material, and above a certain threshold purity and threshold amount, it just starts a chain reaction that makes it explode.
So, yes, enriching uranium to very high degrees is the essential step to build a bomb.
It could very well be that Iran wasn’t officially building a bomb, i.e. they didn’t tell their engineers yet “ok, let’s assemble all the pieces into a complete bomb” but it is well possible that they were preparing all the pieces.
it is well possible that they were preparing all the pieces
You’re literally describing building a bomb with different words. And both the IAEA and the American IC are currently of the opinion that Iran hasn’t been doing that since they suspended their nuclear weapons program in 2003. Is there something you know that they don’t?
Essentially, you take a bunch of radioactive material, and above a certain threshold purity and threshold amount, it just starts a chain reaction that makes it explode.
No. That is not what enriching means. I’m sorry, you need to do a lot more research on nuclear physics; you are flatly incorrect.
Tulsi Gabbard is a well known Iranian asset. She’s been on their payroll for years. Of course she said that they weren’t building a nuclear weapon, that’s what they paid her to say. The entire Trump regime is corrupt.
Well known by whom, exactly?
Lol, she’s a literal Hindu nationalist. That’s about as far from an Iranian asset as possible
I love people putting “well known” before completely baseless accusations
Reddit-ass geopolitical experts.
I’ve heard the accusation that she’s a Russian asset, but Iranian? First time I’ve ever heard that one.
Right from the Cheney playbook.
Tulsi has no home and has continually played herself. Congratulations.
The moron just wants the war to hide his shenaningans at home. Sole reason. Everyone should know by now that he automatically denies any and every thing that runs contrary to his own personal narrative.
other problems make for a great distraction from the original problem. i suspect that’s the reason behind a lot of trump’s actions
wasn’t YET building?
I mean… Why do you even get the uranium enriched to such high levels if you don’t plan to make use of it?
Despite your shitlib stance, I will concede that Iran should gave veen trying to build a nuke as a deterrent for exactly this scenario. The US never attacks nuclear powers. Trump even sucks off Kim Jong Un on weekend getaways.
Power plants fueling desalination. There is alot of material about it. It’s part of the treaties with America. But to refine to weapon grade uranium is not a technological enhancement, you simply run the same enrichment procedure multiple times is my understanding. The main difference is the tricky detonation, but come on, that’s decades old tech.
The treaties were made with the understanding they could make nukes if they wanted to.
So that a reason can be given to not enrich further.
We have done this dance before last time it cost me my 20s my sanity and most importantly a huge amount for friends I loved like brothers who died before and are still killing then selfs…
