{"id":95788,"date":"2026-03-18T19:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/us-intel-chief-gabbard-says-iran-was-not-rebuilding-enrichment-prior-to-war-us-israel-war-on-iran-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:48:48","slug":"us-intel-chief-gabbard-says-iran-was-not-rebuilding-enrichment-prior-to-war-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/us-intel-chief-gabbard-says-iran-was-not-rebuilding-enrichment-prior-to-war-us-israel-war-on-iran-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US intel chief Gabbard says Iran was not rebuilding enrichment prior to war | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p><strong>Washington, DC \u2013<\/strong> Tulsi Gabbard, the director of US National Intelligence, said that the United States intelligence community had assessed that Iran was not rebuilding its nuclear enrichment capabilities following US and Israeli attacks last year.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation on Wednesday appeared to undercut one of President Donald Trump\u2019s key justifications for joining Israel in launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/1\/us-israel-attacks-on-iran-death-toll-and-injuries-live-tracker\">latest war<\/a> against Iran.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Trump and his top officials have repeatedly cited Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions as one of the main reasons for abandoning ongoing diplomatic talks in favour of military action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of Operation Midnight Hammer,\u201d Gabbard said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/os-gabbard-031826.pdf\">written testimony<\/a> to the Senate intelligence committee, referencing the June 2025 US strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, \u201cIran\u2019s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability,\u201d Gabbard said in the written testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Gabbard did not read that portion of her testimony, which was provided to members of the committee, during her publicly televised oral testimony. When pressed on why she omitted the portion, Gabbard said simply that she did not have enough time. She did not deny the assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou chose to omit the parts that contradict Trump,\u201d Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, responded.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly said the June 2025 attacks, which came at the end of a 12-day war between Israel and Iran, had \u201cobliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s nuclear capacity, even as he warned that Iran\u2019s alleged nuclear ambitions presented an immediate threat to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has for years denied it is seeking a nuclear weapon. Nuclear and arms monitors have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/3\/trump-admin-offers-scant-evidence-on-iranian-threat-in-america-first-war\">maintained<\/a> that even if Tehran were seeking a nuclear weapon, it did not represent a short- or medium-term threat.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister of Oman, who had mediated the latest round of US-Iran indirect nuclear talks ahead of the war, has refuted Trump officials\u2019 claims that the most recent negotiations were not yielding any progress.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian newspaper also reported this week that the United Kingdom\u2019s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, had attended the final session of talks and assessed that the Iranian position did not justify an immediate rush to war, citing sources familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has not settled on any single justification for launching the war, also pointing to Iran\u2019s ballistic capabilities, its potential threat to Israel and US forces in the Middle East, and the totality of the Iranian government\u2019s actions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of an \u201cimminent threat\u201d is significant in determining the legality of Trump\u2019s decision to strike a sovereign country under international law.<\/p>\n<p>It is also significant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/18\/president-or-congress-who-in-the-us-has-the-power-to-declare-war\">US domestic law<\/a>, under which presidents can commit the military only in instances of immediate self-defence. Only Congress can officially declare war or authorise extended military campaigns.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"iran-s-government-intact-but-largely-degraded\">Iran\u2019s government \u2018intact but largely degraded\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The White House said earlier this week that Iran\u2019s ballistic missile capacity was \u201cfunctionally destroyed\u201d, with the Iranian navy \u201ceffectively destroyed\u201d and the US and Israel dominating the country\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have assessed that Iran still maintains the military capacity to inflict significant damage in the region, and it has continued to wield its military influence over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/18\/how-iran-defied-trump-threats-to-emerge-as-strait-of-hormuz-gatekeeper\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, meanwhile, offered a more sober assessment than the White House, saying that despite the killings of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, top military officials, and most recently the head of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani and the intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, \u201cthe regime in Iran \u2060appears to be intact but largely degraded by Operation Epic Fury\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven so, Iran and its proxies remain capable of and continue to attack US and allied interests in \u2060the Middle East. If a hostile regime survives, it will seek to begin a years-long effort to rebuild its missiles and UAV [drone] forces,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard also listed Iran, alongside Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan, as among the countries \u201cresearching and developing an array of novel, advanced, or traditional missile delivery systems, with nuclear and conventional payloads, that put our homeland within range\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington, DC-based Arms Control Association has said that US intelligence as of 2025 had said it may take Iran until 2035 or longer to develop a missile capable of hitting the US, if it did indeed seek to do so.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"high-profile-resignation\">High-profile resignation<\/h2>\n<p>Gabbard spoke a day after a top official in her agency, Joe Kent, the director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/17\/us-national-counterterrorism-center-director-joe-kent-resigns-over-iran-war\">resigned<\/a> in opposition to Trump\u2019s war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation, Kent said that Iran \u201cposed no imminent threat\u201d to the US and that Trump\u2019s decision to enter the war went against his \u201cAmerica First\u201d pledges.<\/p>\n<p>Kent is the first high-profile member of the Trump administration to step down in response to the war.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard herself had previously been a vocal opponent to indefinite military engagement in the Middle East and war with Iran. A former member of the US House of Representatives from Hawaii, she left the Democratic Party and supported Trump, in part, due to his anti-war vows.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a post on X on Tuesday, Gabbard defended Trump\u2019s decision to go to war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said her agency\u2019s role was to funnel US intelligence to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/18\/us-intel-chief-gabbard-says-iran-was-not-rebuilding-enrichment-prior-to-war\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC \u2013 Tulsi Gabbard, the director of US National Intelligence, said that the United States intelligence community had assessed that Iran was not rebuilding its nuclear enrichment capabilities following US and Israeli attacks last year. 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