Trump says intel chief Tulsi Gabbard 'Wrong' on Iran nuclear threat

US President Donald Trump on Friday rejected the assessment of his own intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, insisting that Iran is close to developing a nuclear weapon and dismissing the official US intelligence view as 'wrong.'Trump contradicted intelligence assessments delivered earlier this year by Gabbard, who stated that Tehran was not actively pursuing nuclear weapons. Speaking to reporters at an airport in Morristown, New Jersey, Trump said bluntly:advertisement"She's wrong."
The president's remarks marked yet another instance of his public criticism of US intelligence officials. On June 18, during the G7 summit — which he cut short amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran — Trump dismissed agency assessments.'I don't care what she said,' he told reporters, reacting to Gabbard's warning against overestimating Iran's nuclear threat.Trump's stance closely mirrors that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long warned that a nuclear-armed Iran poses an immediate and existential danger.In her March testimony to lawmakers, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated that the intelligence community 'continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.'She also noted that while Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest recorded level — 'unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons' — there was still no evidence of a resumed weapons programme.With inputs from agenciesMust Watch

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