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Re: Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran … War
https://wapo.st/4byxTSv
Tulsi Gabbards’s (Director of National Intelligence) testimony to a Senate hearing today
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Strikingly, in her opening statement she departed from prepared remarks — published ahead of Wednesday’s hearing — outlining the intelligence community’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear capability. As she spoke to lawmakers, Gabbard said that after the U.S. military bombed Iran’s nuclear sites over the summer, Tehran was “trying to recover” from the “severe damage” caused by the operation.
According to her written statement, Gabbard was expected to say that the Iranians had made “no efforts” since the U.S. bombing of their nuclear facilities “to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.” That statement appeared to undercut assertions made by the administration, which has cited Iran’s nuclear program as one reason President Donald Trump felt an imperative to start the war.
When Sen. Mark R. Warner (Virginia), the committee’s top Democrat, asked Gabbard why she deviated from her written remarks, she told him that she had skipped some portions as “the time was running long.
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Warner then accused her of having chosen “to omit the parts that contradict the president.”
Under questioning from Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia), Gabbard acknowledged later that her written remarks do reflect the intelligence community’s assessment, though she declined to say directly whether Iran had posed an “imminent nuclear threat” as the Trump administration has claimed.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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And Iran is striking back at other Gulf States oil and gas facilities…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c24d...d65e4dd44#post
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