Scoop: CIA director doubts Iran's intentions on deal, sources say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: msn/Axios

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe told President Trump and other senior officials that intelligence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies raised serious doubts about Iran's willingness to make the nuclear concessions the U.S. is seeking in any final deal, according to three sources familiar with those discussions.

Friction point: Ratcliffe isn't the only skeptic in Trump's top team. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have both expressed concerns and raised questions about the deal in internal discussions, while Vice President Vance and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner advocated for it, according to two of the sources.

Behind the scenes: There were a series of high-level meetings about the deal between Trump and his advisers in the lead-up to Sunday's announcement.

During those meetings, Trump and his team discussed intelligence gathered by several U.S. intelligence agencies which showed that the way Iranian officials were discussing the deal among themselves was inconsistent with what they were telling the mediators and the U.S., two sources said.

Ratcliffe and Rubio said that based on that intelligence, they doubted the Iranians would agree to take the nuclear steps the U.S. was seeking, according to two sources.

"The intelligence reflects that the Iranian intentions are not in line with their commitments under the deal," the source said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scoop-cia-director-doubts-irans-intentions-on-deal-sources-say/ar-AA25J7qp

[JBTaurus83]

1. Well if they didn't want nukes before,

They sure will now! Just look at N Korea. Amazingly we don’t start these wars with them.

[gab13by13]

3. At least with the prior agreement we had

international inspectors visiting Iranian nuclear sites unannounced.

[gab13by13]

2. Lol, Hey Ratcliffe, call it what it is,

Krasnov surrendered to Iran. Krasnov will do anything to prevent $7/gal gas on the 4th of July.

This agreement is merely an agreement to hold peace talks later, stop pushing it as a peace deal, it is not, it is a surrender.

Krasnov must give 12 billion dollars now, must remove the blockade, and then Iran will partially open Hormuz to ships that pay fees. After 60 days (which will be after the 4th of July) Krasnov will pay Iran another 12 billion dollars.

Then Iran wants 300 billion dollars to rebuild, fucking forget about Iran stopping its nuclear program, not going to happen.

What is Krasnov going to do, 13,000 more air strikes and drive gas to $7/gal? Krasnov just made Iran relevant on the world stage and made the US less relevant.

[Javaman]

4. aka they want to bomb some more. nt

[gab13by13]

6. No they don't,

They surrendered.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They blew their wad for naught

They don't have any more bombs left to spare and IIRC from some articles, even dipped into what was set aside for Israel and NATO orders.

[Ray Bruns]

5. The same thing can be said about the Trump administration.

[Lonestarblue]

7. Israel secretly worked primarily with France to develop its nuclear weapons capability in the 1960s.

While everything about their acquisition of nuclear technology remains secretive, the US is believed to have provided unofficial assistance with scientists sharing knowledge, even though our policy was to prevent nuclear proliferation. Ben Gurion wanted weapons to use against Israel's Arab neighbors. Many analysts have argued that Israel's nuclear capabilities have destabilized the region rather than working as a deterrent against its protection.

Oddly enough, in 1967 the U.S.-supplied 5-megawatt Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) was started up for production of atomic energy, not weapons. By 1970 Iran had signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel refused to sign. It seems possible that had Israel not secretly acquired nuclear bomb technology, Iran would not have done so either.

So today we have complete instability in the Middle East and hundreds of thousands of people killed since 1948, and with no end in sight. Trump has done nothing but exacerbate the problems there.

[SamuelAdams]

9. The fact that Trump and Vance don't want to release the text of the deal yet

shows how bad it is. He doesn't trust our intelligence services so he won't listen to them on this. He is so desperate to make a deal, he'll probably let them keep the enriched uranium and lie about it. I don't think he cares if Iran gets a nuclear weapon as long as he can blame someone else.