President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified in March that the intel community continues to assess that Iran has not resumed trying to build a nuclear weapon since the program was suspended by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2003.
Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 27 to provide the Intelligence Community’s 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, Gabbard stated in no uncertain terms, the United States 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.”
“The IC is monitoring if Tehran decides to reauthorise,” Gabbard added.
The annual threat assessment is the consensus of the 18 U.S. intelligence elements making up the U.S. Intelligence Community.
The testimony made few waves when she gave it, and was minimally reported on in the media, but went viral on Saturday after being shared by WikiLeaks.
US intelligence assessed just weeks ago that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon
“The IC [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.… pic.twitter.com/jtNw3d3xgR
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 14, 2025
Gabbard did not testify that Iran presents any threat to the U.S. homeland, but did acknowledge it poses a threat to Israel, forces deployed abroad, and commercial shipping and transit.
“Iran will likely continue efforts to counter Israel and press for a U.S. military withdrawal from the region by aiding, arming, and helping to reconstitute its loose consortium of like-minded terrorist and militant actors, which it refers to as its ‘Axis of Resistance,’” Gabbard said. “Although weakened, this collection of actors still presents a wide range of threats, including to Israel’s population, U.S. forces deployed in Iraq and Syria, and to U.S. and international military and commercial shipping and transit.”
The Intelligence Community’s threat assessment directly contradicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Iran is months away from weaponizing enriched uranium.
Since the 1990s, Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed that Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, often citing short timelines for their capability.
In 1992, Netanyahu warned that Iran was three to five years from acquiring a nuclear bomb, a claim reiterated in his 1995 book Fighting Terrorism, where he predicted Iran would achieve this by 2000. He echoed similar warnings in congressional testimony in 1996, 2002, and at the United Nations in 2012, famously using a cartoon bomb graphic to assert Iran was less than a year away from sufficient weapons-grade uranium.
In 2018, Netanyahu presented documents, obtained by Israeli intelligence, alleging Iran’s secret nuclear program continued covertly after its 2003 suspension. In 2025, he justified airstrikes on Iranian facilities, claiming Iran could produce a bomb in “months.” These claims have consistently suggested an imminent threat, often offering deadlines that have passed without evidence of an active Iranian nuclear weapons program.
A timeline of Netanyahu’s claims has gone viral in the wake of Israel’s strikes on Iran:
Since 2007, U.S. assessments have maintained that Iran halted its structured nuclear weapons program in 2003, with no evidence of a decision to restart it.
In 2012, Israeli intelligence, per leaked cables, aligned with U.S. findings, admitting Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons,” despite Netanyahu’s public claims. Critics, including former Mossad chief Meir Dagan in 2011, have argued the prime minister’s warnings exaggerate the threat, potentially to justify military action or derail diplomatic efforts like the 2015 nuclear deal, which he fiercely opposed.
The non-neoconservative wing of President Donald Trump’s base and inner circle has long lobbied for the removal of U.S. troops from the Middle East, including Tucker Carlson and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
Why Do We Have American Troops In Iraq? Because Fox News And Bush LIED. pic.twitter.com/B1bjv8bSJP
— STEVE BANNON (@Stevebannon_sk) June 13, 2025
“We got American troops in Iraq? Why?” Bannon said during an episode of War Room on Friday. “Because Fox News and all of them and Bush lied to us. Lied! This was not a failure of intelligence… it was bald-faced lies.”
“Stop the forever wars because your sons and daughters are fighting them, just like your sons and daughters going to be fighting this one. So if we’re going to do it this time, let’s have an adult conversation. Do not come here and say, “Oh, we’ve got to protect America.” Then get them out. Get them out of Iraq, get them out of the embassy.”
Bannon also blasted Israel for attacking Iran and immediately expecting the United States to fight their battle, despite unilaterally making the decision to strike.
“Either you got it – if you’re going to go alone, you got – you can take care of your deal, or not,” Bannon said. “You don’t need us to decide to go alone. Decide to reject it. No, we don’t need you, we’re going to go it alone. And the go-it-alone lasts about six hours, not only do they want defense, they want us to go on offense.”
In a post to X on Friday, Carlson called out his former coworkers by name as “warmongers.”
The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would…
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 13, 2025
Carlson wrote, “The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.”
Gabbard herself has also posted a video warning that we are “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before,” because of “political elites and warmongers.”
I recently visited Hiroshima, and stood at the epicenter of a city scarred by the unimaginable horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in 1945. What I saw, the stories I heard, and the haunting sadness that remains, will stay with me forever. pic.twitter.com/TmxmxiGwnV
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) June 10, 2025
“As we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elites and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” Gabbard said. “Perhaps it’s because they are confident that they will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and for their families that regular people won’t have access to. So it’s up to us, the people, to speak up and demand an end to this madness.”
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