Trump Iranian missile claim unsupported by U.S. intelligence, say sources (www.reuters.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 11:38
https://lemmy.world/post/43635433

Donald Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile that can hit the United States is not backed by U.S. intelligence reports, and appears to be exaggerated, according to three sources familiar with the reports, casting doubt on part of his case for a possible attack on the Islamic Republic.

In his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, Trump began making his case to the American public for why the U.S. could launch strikes against Iran, saying Tehran was “working on missiles that will soon reach” the United States.

But there have been no changes, two sources said, to an unclassified 2025 U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that Iran could take until 2035 to develop a “militarily viable intercontinental ballistic missile” (ICBM) from its existing satellite-lofting space-launch vehicles (SLV).

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Magister@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 12:00 next collapse

LOL they are bringing back the WMD again, it worked before, why wouldn’t it now?

Mihies@programming.dev on 27 Feb 12:02 next collapse

Iran is always a week or month away from producing a nuclear weapon. Also a gently reminder that the Orange threatened everybody who said that latest illegal bombing of Iran didn’t destroy its nuclear capabilities for good.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 12:02 next collapse

The US has been saying this about Iran for at least twenty years despite Iran being a part of the UN’s watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA provides regular oversight of nuclear programs to ensure they are for peaceful programs. Iran has been working with nuclear material conducive with nuclear power generation, not the kind needed for nuclear missiles, and yet the US always waves the bogeyman argument.

For these ghouls, it is a bit reductive but it works as a general rule: manufacture and foment instability for oil. It is always oil with these freaks.

Mihies@programming.dev on 27 Feb 12:04 next collapse

Meanwhile a country, that de-facto has nuclear weapons and it’s not acknowledging them, nor it signed non-proliferation treaty and it’s madly waging war/genocide all around is Israel.

FireRetardant@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 13:35 collapse

You’ll never guess where Isreal got it’s uranium from

Mihies@programming.dev on 27 Feb 14:18 collapse

Hey c’mon, everybody could loose few kilograms or of Uranium, like it never happened to you or your friends.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 13:39 collapse

Iran will have the missiles when fusion and solid state EV batteries become mainstream.