" Pentagon chiefs and U.S. national intelligence disengaged from talks about Iran and Israel – media president Donald Trump reportedly trust on a tiny group of less-known collaborators, considering military intervention"

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ARCHIVAL PHOTO: manager of National Intelligence Tulsa Gabbard.© Andrew Harnik / Getty Images

U.S. president Donald Trump excluded defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Intelligence manager Tulsi Gabbard from high-level talks on the ongoing Iranian-Israeli conflict, reported NBC News and Washington Post, citing high-ranking administration officials.
Gabbard's decision aside, according to NBC, is allegedly due to her public and interior opposition to the authoritative communicative of the US and Israel that Tehran is 1 step distant from gaining atomic weapons.Hegseth was besides removed from the operational talks, and the Washington Post reported that 2 four-star generals overseeing the deployment of additional U.S. military resources in the mediate East took the lead.It is now said that Trump relies on a smaller, more experienced advisory group ‘Tier One’ – consisting of Vice president J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA manager John Ratcliffe and Vice-President of General Dan Caine's College of Chiefs of Staff – which is now reportedly shaping US policy towards Iran, alternatively than conventional civilian defence and intelligence leadership.Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell denied these reports, insisting that Hegseth "talks to the president respective times a day and was with the president in the Situation Hall this week".

Gabbard besides told reporters that she and the president are “on the same page’.Israel launched a large-scale Iran bombing run last week, claiming Tehran was close to producing atomic weapons.

Trump decides whether to join the Israeli run ‘in the next 2 weeks’, said White home press secretary Karolina Leavitt on Thursday.However, American intelligence continues to estimation that Iran, despite having accumulated enriched uranium, has not taken concrete steps towards developing atomic weapons, according to Senator Mark Warner, the ultimate politician in the legislature intelligence committee.

This view remained unchanged since March erstwhile Gabbard told legislature that the American intelligence community "does not believe Iran is building atomic weapons".Trump denied this assessment on Tuesday, stating that Iran is ‘weeks from’ obtaining atomic weapons and rejecting Gabbard's remarks, saying: "I don't care what she said."Former Democratic congresswoman and veteran of the Iraq War, Gabbard has long criticized the American intelligence community, which he now oversees, and was known to support NSA informant Edward Snowden.

Her publication of a movie informing of the nightmare of atomic war following a visit to Hiroshima reportedly irritated Trump's advisors.

Her absence at a key gathering on 8 June at Camp David on Iran's policy sparked speculation about her reduced influence.

Many sources reported to NBC stations that it did not participate in fresh strategical discussions.



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source:https://www.rt.com/news/619904-trump-gabbard-hegseth-iran/

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