“The IAEA, U.S. intelligence, and outside experts have concluded that Iran was not close to producing a nuclear bomb and was not pursuing one.”

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While Western countries have long believed that Iran wants the bomb - or at least the ability to make one very quickly - it has always denied that, saying Khamenei had banned nuclear arms as forbidden in Islam and citing its membership of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. There was no plan to ch

repeatedly confirming the absence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program

He reiterated the claims he made in his resignation letter that there was "no intelligence" that Iran posed "an imminent threat" to the US, saying instead that "the Israelis drove the decision to take this action". He said that Iran was not on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon

both the IAEA, including Grossi himself, and numerous assessments from both U.S. intelligence and outside experts have concluded the opposite of Witkoff's public claims: that Iran was not close to producing a nuclear bomb, and was not even pursuing one.

חזר על הטענה שכבר העלה במכתב ההתפטרות שלו, לפיה איראן "לא היוותה איום מיידי" על ישראל וארצות הברית, וכי לא היה בידי קהילת המודיעין האמריקנית מידע שלפיו איראן עמדה על סף פיתוח נשק גרעיני