A brand new intelligence report claims Iran is continuous with its lively nuclear weapons program, which it says can be utilized to launch missiles over lengthy distances.
The startling intelligence gathering of Austrian officers contradicts the evaluation of the U.S. Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence (ODNI). Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard advised a Senate Intelligence Committee in March that the American intelligence group “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
Austria’s model of the FBI — the Federal Workplace for the Safety of the Structure — wrote Monday in an intelligence report, “In order to assert and enforce its regional political power ambitions, the Islamic Republic of Iran is striving for comprehensive rearmament, with nuclear weapons to make the regime immune to attack and to expand and consolidate its dominance in the Middle East and beyond.”
The Austrian home intelligence company report added, “The Iranian nuclear weapons development program is well advanced, and Iran possesses a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads over long distances.”
In line with an intelligence doc obtained and reviewed by Fox Information Digital, “Iran has developed sophisticated sanctions-evasion networks, which has benefited Russia.”
The Austrian intelligence findings could possibly be an undesirable wrench in President Trump’s negotiation course of to resolve the atomic disaster with Iran’s rulers as a result of the info outlined within the report suggests the regime won’t abandon its drive to safe a nuclear weapon.
In response to the Austrian intelligence, a White Home official advised Fox Information Digital, “President Trump is committed to Iran never obtaining a nuclear weapon or the capacity to build one.”
The hazard of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism (and its unlawful atomic weapons program) was cited 99 occasions within the 211-page report that covers urgent threats to Austria’s democracy.
“Vienna is home to one of the largest embassies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Europe, which disguises intelligence officers with diplomatic,” the Austrian intelligence report famous.
“Iranian intelligence services are familiar with developing and implementing circumvention strategies for the procurement of military equipment, proliferation-sensitive technologies, and materials for weapons of mass destruction,” the Austrian intelligence company stated.
In 2021, a Belgium court docket convicted Asadollah Asadi, a former Iranian diplomat based mostly in Vienna, for planning to explode a 2018 opposition assembly of tens of hundreds of Iranian dissidents held exterior Paris. Former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as President Trump’s private lawyer on the time, attended the occasion in France.
When requested concerning the variations in conclusions between the U.S. Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence and the Austrian intelligence report, David Albright, a physicist and founder and president of the Institute for Science and Worldwide Safety in Washington, D.C., advised Fox Information Digital, “The ODNI report is caught prior to now, a remnant of the fallacious unclassified 2007 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate].
“The Austrian report usually is just like German and British assessments. Each governments, by the best way, made clear to (the) U.S. IC [intelligence community] in 2007 that they thought the U.S. evaluation was flawed that the Iranian nuclear weapons program led to 2003.
“The German assessment is from BND [Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service] station chief in D.C. at that time. The British info is from a senior British non-proliferation official I was having dinner with the day the 2007 NIE was made public. The German said the U.S. was misinterpreting data they all possessed.”
The Austrian intelligence findings that Tehran is engaged on an lively atomic weapons program “seems clear enough,” stated Albright.
In 2023, Fox Information Digital revealed a recent batch of European intelligence studies confirmed that Iran sought to bypass U.S. and EU sanctions to safe know-how for its nuclear weapons program with a view towards testing an atomic bomb.
European intelligence businesses have documented previous to 2015 and after the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) was agreed upon that Tehran continued efforts to illegally safe know-how for its atomic, organic and chemical weapons of mass destruction packages.
The Austrian intelligence report famous that Iran offers weapons to the U.S.-designated terrorist actions Hamas and Hezbollah, in addition to to Syrian militias.
A spokesperson for ODNI declined to remark. The U.S. State Division and U.S. Nationwide Safety Council didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital press queries.
