US intelligence agencies have reaffirmed that there’s no evidence Iran is developing nuclear weapons or that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has reversed his 2003 fatwah that banned the production of weapons of mass destruction.
“The IC 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,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Gabbard’s comments were based on the annual threat assessment, which is released by the ODNI with input from all US intelligence agencies. The report did note that there have been more calls inside Iran to reverse the ban on nuclear weapons, which have grown in response to Israeli aggression in the region.
“In the past year, there has been an erosion of a decades-long taboo on discussing nuclear weapons in public that has emboldened nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decisionmaking apparatus,” the report reads. “Khamenei remains the final decision maker over Iran’s nuclear program, to include any decision to develop nuclear weapons.”
The threat assessment comes amid increasing US sanctions and threats of military action over Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian officials have rejected the idea of talks with the US in the face of President Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign,” but have said the door is open for indirect negotiations.
The hype over Iran’s nuclear program revolves around the enrichment of some uranium at 60%, the highest level Iran has achieved but still lower than the 90% needed for weapons-grade. Iran first took the step to enrich at 60% in response to a 2021 Israeli sabotage attack against its Natanz nuclear facility, which was meant to sabotage talks between the Biden administration and Tehran.
Iran is still a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it won’t enrich uranium beyond the 60% level.
Amid increasing US and Israeli threats about its nuclear program, Iran has recently pointed out that Israel has a secret nuclear weapons stockpile, and its nuclear program is not subject to IAEA inspections since Israel is not a signatory to the NPT.
A timely reminder of the facts … not that facts necessarily have a significant impact on policy, but still …
US intelligence will not admit to Israel's nuclear weapons program.
The IAEA’s Board of Governors often censures Iran through Western-drafted resolutions for its nuclear program even though it is subject to IAEA inspections, and, despite the hype over uranium enrichment levels, there’s no evidence Tehran is seeking a bomb.
The US cannot acknowledge the existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons since foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
It's nice to see years of US hate and fear propaganda finally debunked by a high official.
Healthy cynicism Garrett
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The US is number one terrorist world-wide and US citizens accept this. I experienced a grieving widow sobbing on my chest from her family being brutally murdered by a US supported terrorist war in Nicaragua. I am glad to read this and not expressing cynicism.
I support every country the US government teaches us to hate.
This is from 2021:
The head of the Central Intelligence Agency said Monday that the United States does not have evidence that Iran has made a decision to weaponize its nuclear program.
The US spy agency “doesn’t see any evidence that Iran’s Supreme Leader [Ali Khamenei] has made a decision to move to weaponize,” CIA Director William Burns told the Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council, according to CBS News.
So, it has been debunked for years.
Which doesn't mean anything to the zionist congress…!
Depends if Netanyahu used up all his felt pens coloring in that bulls**t old-timey cartoony bomb art project he showed off that time to "convince" everyone how close the IRI was to a nuclear device.
I imagine he'll just top up the rest of the drawing with crayon.
Ol’ W lamented way back in 2007 that the Intel reports on Iran prevented an attack … the agencies have been consistent since 2005 and with high confidence. But that hasn’t prevented the warmongering.
A perfect storm, you have one country doing its best to avoid creating a nuclear weapon and another country doing everything it can to incentivize it.
"You don't have nuclear weapons? Excellent and thank you–that means we can now attack you safely"
"I mean, um, we MIGHT have them."
– "OH ! Then we DEFINITELY need to attack you before you maybe possibly build MORE of them."
US intelligence assessment on Iran doesn't mean anything to the neocons and warmongers…!
A country with piles and piles of nukes has not moral authority to tell another country that they cannot have any nukes. Only a nuke free country can ask another country not to develop nukes.
So, exactly what ICAN has been doing for years now….
https://www.icanw.org/
From: Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists:
The US hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop
An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons. It takes for granted what anyone who pays attention has known for years. But the series goes well beyond a general discussion about Israel’s nuclear weapons. It shows the country’s single-minded determination to get the bomb no matter what it took, including stealing nuclear explosives and bomb components from the United States and violating a major nuclear arms control treaty to which Israel is a party—and lying about it.
As the Trump administration is in serious discussion about joining Israel in attacks on Iran to stop it from getting nuclear weapons, it is useful to shed illusions about Israel’s modus operandi.
US officials stay mute. A thread running through the three episodes is a continuing conversation, before he died in 2018, with Benjamin Blumberg, the head of Lakam, the Israeli scientific intelligence agency responsible for the nuclear missions that led to the Israeli bomb, some so secret they were kept from the Mossad. (Mossad is the Israeli agency that handles foreign intelligence collection and covert action.) Blumberg was in failing health and agreed to talk so long as the interview was not aired until after his death.
That conversation is mixed with archival material and recent interviews. The significance of the series lies not in showing what was not previously known—although there are details in that category—but in the admissions on Israeli public television, with the approval of the Israeli censors, about events that have been denied by Israel’s supporters in the United States, including the US government.
Several events discussed in the television series deal directly with the United States: the theft in the 1960s of bomb quantities of uranium 235 from the NUMEC facility in Pennsylvania, where the leaders of the Israeli team that spirited Eichmann out of Argentina appeared inexplicably in 1968 with false identities; the illicit purchase of hundreds of high-speed switches (krytrons) for triggering nuclear weapons, and spiriting them out of the country in the 1980s by Israeli spy and arms dealer, and by then Hollywood producer, Arnon Milchan; and, most significantly at this point, Israel’s 1979 nuclear test in the seas off South Africa of what appears to be the initial fission stage for a thermonuclear weapon. The nuclear test violated the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty to which Israel is a party.
What stands out from the television series is the grip Israel has had over US policy regarding Israel’s nuclear weapons.
Not since John Kennedy has any US president tried to rein in Israel’s nuclear program. His successor, Lyndon Johnson, did not challenge the Israelis on nuclear issues (and covered up Israel’s attempt during the 1967 six-day war to sink the US spy ship Liberty). Such has been Israel’s political clout in the United States.
No one was ever charged in the disappearance of nuclear material from NUMEC.
(longer read)
https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/the-us-hypocrisy-about-israels-nuclear-weapons-must-stop/
NUMEC
https://rumble.com/v1a6xdr-numec-how-israel-stole-the-atomic-bomb.html
US officials stay mute…. under orders from Israel. US officials are a grotesque clown show with the exception of fewer than a handful, as far as I can see.
"Iran is still a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)…"
AND the Additional Protocols. The IRI has been a responsible actor in both regards, allowing IAEA inspections as requested.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/talk-of-us-iran-war-is-all-a-load-of-baloney/ MK Bhadrakumar
"In a recent interview with the famous American podcaster Tucker Carlson, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani drew an apocalyptic scenario that his country and the Persian Gulf Arab states will run out of water within three days if Iran’s nuclear facilities are targeted by the US or Israel! Does that occur to anyone?"
I'd suggest to Al Thani that the Americans and Israelis know this.
The Greater Israel Project, mass Arab depopulation, surplus oil and gas for Western nations.
The last thing Neocon-ish people care about is creating chaos of any degree. Except that the more there is, the better.
THE US creats its own reality.