Iran and Israel continued to exchange attacks into Tuesday amid the latest round of conflict between the two nations.
Iran and Israel continued to exchange attacks into Tuesday amid the latest round of conflict between the two nations.
Iran is not currently building a nuclear weapon, a senior Trump administration official told ABC News.
“Just because they’re not building right now, doesn’t mean they aren’t ‘very close’ as POTUS said on Air Force One,” the official said on Tuesday.
“All of the other points [U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard] made outside of the singular statement that ‘Iran is not building’ a nuclear weapon, points to them being very close to building one,” the official said.
In March, Gabbard testified to congress that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamanei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
“Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons,” Gabbard added.
“Iran continues to seek expansion of its influence in the Middle East, despite the degradation to its proxies and defenses during the Gaza conflict. Iran has developed and maintains ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs, including systems capable of striking U.S. targets and allies in the region,” Gabbard said.
An International Atomic Energy Agency report in June concluded that it had “no credible indications of an ongoing, undeclared structured nuclear programme.”
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