Somebody Was Very Wrong About Iran's Nuclear Program – I’m Betting It Was Us
It would be a really good thing to have an Intelligence Community that was capable of providing the necessary clarity on these threats to help keep us all alive.
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by Sam Faddis
June 16, 2025
In March of this year, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that the intelligence community "continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003."
Speaking only days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had no choice but to attack Iran, because the Iranian nuclear weapons program had advanced to the stage where Tehran was on the brink of fielding operational nuclear weapons.
“If we don’t attack, then it’s 100% that we will die,” Netanyahu said in a video statement. “We decided we couldn’t wait anymore. We are at midnight.” Netanyahu added that he had given the order to destroy Iran’s nuclear program in November 2024 based on the intelligence Israel had in its possession at that time. The attack was originally scheduled for April 2025 but was delayed for unspecified reasons.
Somebody is wrong. If the Iranians are in fact on the brink of having operational nuclear weapons, then essentially everything DNI Gabbard said in March was wrong, and the entire American Intelligence Community missed the mark widely on Iran’s nuclear weapons work. If Gabbard is right, then the Israelis are either lost in a labyrinth of lies or they are deliberately misleading us and the world.
Unfortunately, I am betting the Israelis have it right, and it is our intelligence that is lacking.
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