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Reported claim

“The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Iran is not on the verge of building nuclear weapons, consistently from the George W. Bush administration onwards.”

high confidence 17 sources

Reported by 16 sources.

Sources

Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
None
2026-04-02
Hurriyet Daily News supports medium reliability
None
2026-04-02
Strategic Culture Foundation supports low reliability
L'analisi del National Intelligence Council, lo stesso che nel marzo 2025 (tre mesi prima dello scatenamento della Guerra dei 12 Giorni da parte di Israele e della contestuale Operazione Midnight Hammer statunitense) aveva confermato la refrattarietà dell'Iran a dotarsi dell'arma nucleare
2026-03-27
Middle East Eye supports medium reliability
According to Kent, intelligence assessments suggested the Iranians were always "several months, a year, two years" away from having the nuclear capabilities to attack, but there was "no intelligence" to indicate they were in the process of actually developing these capabilities.
2026-03-25
Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
Last week, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard also told Congress that Iran was not in a position to make an atomic bomb.
2026-03-25
Al-Monitor supports medium reliability
The UN nuclear watchdog and most observers have not supported the finding of an imminent nuclear bomb by Iran
2026-03-20
Al-Monitor supports medium reliability
The UN nuclear watchdog and most observers have not supported the finding of an imminent nuclear bomb by Iran
2026-03-20
Consortium News supports medium reliability
Of course, U.S. intelligence said Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon and was no imminent threat to the U.S.
2026-03-20
Caroline Glick supports medium reliability
CIA Director William Burns and other top administration officials insisted in a series of statements that there are no indications that Iran seeks a nuclear arsenal
2026-03-20
Ynet Hebrew supports medium reliability
ההערכה האמריקנית הייתה שאיראן נמצאת במרחק של "כמה חודשים, שנה, אולי שנתיים" מיכולת לפתח נשק כזה, אבל "הם לא עשו את זה״
2026-03-20
Al Jazeera Arabic supports medium reliability
لم تكن لدينا أي معلومات استخباراتية تشير إلى أن إيران تعمل على تطوير قنبلة نووية
2026-03-20
Al Jazeera supports medium reliability
Nuclear and arms monitors have maintained that even if Tehran were seeking a nuclear weapon, it did not represent a short- or medium-term threat.
2026-03-20
Al Jazeera Arabic supports medium reliability
لم تكن لدينا أي معلومات استخباراتية تشير إلى أن إيران تعمل على تطوير قنبلة نووية
2026-03-19
Ynet Hebrew supports medium reliability
לא היה בידי קהילת המודיעין האמריקנית מידע שלפיו איראן עמדה על סף פיתוח נשק גרעיני
2026-03-19
The Hindu uncertain high reliability
she declined to directly answer whether the intelligence community had likewise assessed that Iran's nuclear system presented an imminent risk to the United States
2026-03-18
Al-Monitor supports medium reliability
The UN nuclear watchdog and most observers have not supported the finding of an imminent nuclear bomb by Iran
2026-03-18
Caroline Glick supports medium reliability
last week, CIA Director William Burns and other top administration officials insisted in a series of statements that there are no indications that Iran seeks a nuclear arsenal
2024-10-13

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