{"id":23158,"date":"2025-06-17T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=23158"},"modified":"2025-06-17T07:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:47:43","slug":"i-dont-care-what-she-said-trump-dismisses-tulsi-gabbards-iran-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=23158","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t care what she said\u2019 \u2013 Trump dismisses Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s Iran claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/619524-trump-gabbards-iran-claim\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/619524-trump-gabbards-iran-claim\/<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has said he believes that Iran was\u00a0<em>\u201cvery close\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to obtaining a nuclear weapon, contrary to the assessment of his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.<\/p>\n<p>In late March, Gabbard said that the US intelligence community\u00a0<em>\u201ccontinues 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the stance of his spy chief by journalists on Tuesday, Trump replied:\u00a0<em>\u201cI do not care what she said.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think they [Iran] were very close to having them,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the president stressed, referring to nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}