Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.
The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.
But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
I imagine the answer is simpler than that. AIPAC (and a little bit of Epstein) in the US and something similar in EU. Trump for example gets a small common sense dose and backs down after a few behind-closed-door meetings (this one woman donated 100m on behalf of lobbies to Trump for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson).
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