Friday, February 27, 2026

Report: US intelligence debunks Trump's claim of Iran working on ICBMs

(Trump doesn't care about our intelligence services. All he cares about is appeasing Glorious Israel because they have him on video, don't you know. I still think that is why someone took a potshot at him in that little field during the election. They knew just how compromised he was and how it was going to be used by Israel.) 

from PressTV

US intelligence does not support President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran is close to fielding missiles capable of striking the United States, Reuters reports, casting fresh doubt on an alarming narrative that critics say is being used to manufacture consent for war.

Citing sources familiar with classified assessments, the British news agency said that Trump’s claim, made during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, is exaggerated and not borne out by intelligence reports.

Yet the claim formed a central plank of his renewed public case for possible military aggression against the Islamic Republic.

In the address, Trump told lawmakers that Tehran was “working on missiles that will soon reach” the United States, without presenting evidence, referring to what is technically known as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). 

He also alleged that Iran was rebuilding a nuclear program he claimed had been “obliterated” by US airstrikes last June during the 12-day US-Israeli war on Iran...

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