Following Trump’s attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”

After Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.

Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress, in her opening statement, that the U.S. intel community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon” and had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.

While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony, according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.

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[–] 258 points 1 year ago (21 children)
  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.

    This may have been Trump returning his end of the bargain (or Trump is just a shortsighted and stupid piece of shit).

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Bibi's got kompromat on him, Epstein may have been Mossad

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    lol Republicans don't give a shit about anything he's done or could do. They like Trump and there's nothing in this world that could change that.

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    [–] 117 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It’s interesting to note that Biden didn’t bomb Iran.

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    [–] 99 points 1 year ago

    But women are "too emotional" to be president. Fucking hell, just choke on hamberder already.

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Intel probably came in the form of a new deposit clearing in Trump’s bank account

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You thought vibe coding was bad? Welcome to the age of vibe bombing...

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    [–] 57 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They were based on Trump being pissed that his little birthday parade was humiliating.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What a year, first we got vibe coding and now vibe bombing... I wonder what's next

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Vranyo.

    You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.

    The bald faced lies are like the final insult. Even during the lead up to Iraq they made a show of trying to fake intelligence enough to suit their goals. Now it's just, fuck it we ball, and say whatever, who cares, and who cares if they know we're lying, they can't do anything about it.

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    There is no intelligence in the whole administration, we know.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "There is no intel" describes the entire regime

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    They weren't based on vibes, they were based on orders. Trump's foreign handlers told him what to do and he did it.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Why not use the full word? "There is no intelligence" is much more apt.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ship Trump to Iran and let them do what they will

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    vibe coding and now vibe warmongering

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Really nice knowing that Nuke country #1 is governed by absolute senile murderous freaks for over at least 10 years now

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Vibe Warfare. Where Skynet doesn't have control of the military, but everyone does what it says anyway.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Wasn't the picture of 1970s Iranian women (dressed like US 1970s women) just floating around a couple months along with the attached comment stating "pictures of places before Muslim rule floating around means the US is about to bomb them" or does that just happen every year

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Iran was a liberal democracy before the US helped topple it and install the Ayatollah.

    The US is complicit in all the violence they did to their people.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not quite. It was a liberal democracy until the US helped topple it and install the Shah, who was then toppled by Khomeini.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Many such cases of liberal democracies being toppled by the Us in favor of dictators

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe the CIA can initiate another coup…ffs.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    FTFY: the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Who does he think he is? A Bush family member? /jk

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I mean, if Israel has nukes, and Iran has nukes, that should lead to peace, right? But peace isn't what Israel is after. This isn't about peace. It's about eliminating all that think and look different.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.

    FTFY.

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