Austrian Intel report contradicts US claims about the Iranian nuclear weapons program
First on FOX – The new information report claims Iran continues its active nuclear weapons program. It says it can be used to launch missiles over long ranges.
The incredible intelligence reporting rally of Austrian officials is inconsistent with the assessment of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard He spoke to the Senate Intelligence Committee In March, the US intelligence news community “continues to assess Iran as not building nuclear weapons, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not approved the nuclear weapons programme that was stopped in 2003.”
Austrian FBI version – the federal office for the protection of the constitution – wrote in an Intelligence Report on Monday, “To assert and enforce the ambitions of regional political power, the Islamic Republic of Iran is seeking a comprehensive re-contract, using nuclear weapons to immunize immunity that attacks, expands and integrates its advantages in the Middle East and beyond.”
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A report from the Austrian National Intelligence Agency added, “Iran’s nuclear weapons development program is very advanced, and Iran has a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles that can supply nuclear warheads over long distances.”
According to intelligence documents obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital, “Iran has developed a sophisticated abolition network of sanctions that benefited Russia.”
The data outlined in the report suggest that the administration will not abandon its willingness to secure nuclear weapons, so Austrian intelligence findings could be an unnecessary wrench in President Trump’s negotiation process to resolve the atomic crisis with Iranian rulers.
“President Trump is committed to Iran to never acquire nuclear weapons or construction capabilities,” a White House official told Fox News Digital in response to Austria’s intelligence agency.
The dangers of Iran’s Islamic Republic as a national sponsor of terrorism (and its illegal atomic weapons program) were quoted 99 times in a 211-page report covering the imminent threat to Austrian democracy.
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“Vienna has one of the largest embassies of the Republic of Iran in Europe, hiding intelligence officers from diplomats,” the Austrian Intelligence Report states.
“Iran’s Intelligence Reporting Agency is well versed in the development and implementation of evasion strategies for the procurement of military equipment, proliferation-sensitive technologies, and weapons of mass destruction materials,” the Intelligence Reporting Agency in Austria said.
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When asked about the difference between the US Director of National Intelligence and the conclusions of the Austrian Intelligence Report, David Albright, physicist and founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, DC, told Fox News Digital, “ODNI Reports are stuck in the past.
“The Austrian report is generally similar to the assessment of Germany and the UK. By the way, both governments have made it clear that in 2007 they consider the US assessment to be incorrect because the end of the assessment in 2003.
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“The German review comes from the then Director of DC BND (German Federal Intelligence Agency). The UK information comes from a senior UK non-proliferation official who was having dinner on the day Knee was released in 2007.
The Austrian intelligence agency that Tehran is working on an active atomic weapons programme “seems to be clear enough,” Albright said.
2023, Fox News Digital revealed A new batch of European intelligence reports showed that Iran tried to bypass US and EU sanctions to secure nuclear weapons programme technology with the aim of testing the atomic bomb.
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European intelligence agency has been documented prior to 2015 After Iran’s nuclear deal (JCPOA) was agreed At that time, Tehran continued its efforts to illegally secure its technology for the atoms, biological and chemical weapons of its mass destruction programme.
The Austrian Intelligence Report noted that Iran is providing weapons to the US and designated terrorist movements Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as Syrian militias.
An ODNI spokesman declined to comment. The US State Department and the US National Security Council did not respond immediately to questions from the Fox News Digital Press.