Iran: Trump’s nuclear lie exposed by American intelligence
In Washington, a statement from the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, weakens one of the main arguments put forward by Donald Trump to justify the war against Iran. During a Senate hearing on March 18, Tulsi Gabbard claimed that US intelligence services believe that Tehran has not undertaken any effort to rebuild its nuclear enrichment capabilities since the 2025 strikes by the United States and Israel. According to her, these operations had “destroyed” the Iranian enrichment program, with no attempt to resume it since.
This analysis contradicts the rhetoric of the former president, who regularly invoked an imminent nuclear threat to justify abandoning diplomatic negotiations in favor of military intervention. Notable point: this sensitive passage appeared in his written testimony, but was not mentioned orally, sparking criticism from certain Democratic senators, who see it as a revealing omission.
For its part, Iran continues to deny any desire to acquire nuclear weapons, a position generally considered credible in the short term by several international observers.
What now appears goes beyond a simple political contradiction: it is the prospect of an assumed lie to bring about a war. How can we not see this as a sadly familiar scenario? As early as 2003, the United States had fabricated the narrative of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq — a state lie that served as a pretext for an invasion with cataclysmic consequences. Today, despite the conclusions of their own intelligence services, American officials continue to use the Iranian threat to justify military escalation. This blatant discrepancy between the facts and the official discourse feeds the idea of a political lie intended to prepare public opinion for a war that has already been decided.
For many critics, this rhetoric is part of a logic of alignment with Israeli interests, where the truth becomes secondary to strategic imperatives. The Iraqi precedent should, however, serve as a warning: when a lie serves as the basis for war, it is always the people who pay the price.
