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2/2: #ODNI: #Iran: The disconnect between what the ODNI asserts of Ian's suspect nuclear program and known facts. Richard Goldberg, FDD

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

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2/2: #ODNI: #Iran: The disconnect between what the ODNI asserts of Ian's suspect nuclear program and known facts. Richard Goldberg, FDD

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/07/fdd-supplemental-iran-nuclear-assessment-to-odni-annual-report/

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world.

0:06.7

I'm John Batch with Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for the Defensive Democracy.

0:10.4

It's a senior adviser commenting on a report just issued by the FDD with Anthony Regiro

0:17.0

and Andrea Stricker to his colleagues about the disconnect, the discord between what

0:23.0

the ODNI says Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons development activities

0:27.9

that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device and the facts that have been

0:32.8

established by the IAEA by intelligence gathering over decades.

0:37.5

So Rich, we have just a few moments here.

0:39.9

What is to be done?

0:40.9

You mentioned the Congress mandated this.

0:42.6

What can Congress do to point out the disorder of these statements?

0:48.4

Well, this is one of the key stakeholder audiences that we hope digest what we just published

0:53.4

here.

0:54.9

To the DNI's report and we hope it's taken as such because it means that members of the intelligence

0:59.9

committees in both House and Senate Armed Services committees, the Foreign Affairs Foreign

1:04.3

Relations committees, everyone who has an interest in this issue should be asking for briefings

1:09.0

on the elements not reported on by the DNI that we're outlining here, get as much information as

1:14.9

you can get on the site that Iran is building right now near the tons deep underground,

1:19.9

what we know about it, what we don't know about it.

1:22.0

By the way, gaps in intelligence, what we don't know is sometimes as important or more important

1:26.0

than what we do know.

1:27.8

Ask about the status of SP and D. What do we know is going on there?

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