“We had no intelligence to indicate that Iran was on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon.” Joe Kent, the director of the US National Counterterrorism Centre who resigned over Israel’s influence on the US’s decision to go to war with Iran, told Tucker Carlson that Iran has a fatwa outlawing the development of nuclear arms. However, the Islamic Republic had seen what happened to Muammar Gaddafi, who voluntarily disarmed Libyan nuclear weaponry only to be killed by Nato-backed militias. Kent said Iranian leaders kept around certain components like uranium so they could build nuclear arms if under threat, calling it a “fairly pragmatic” position.

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