Former President Donald Trump’s final spy chief argued there is “no intelligence” supporting the United States rejoining the Iran nuclear deal as the Biden administration calls on a defiant Tehran to come back into compliance.
As President Biden explores the prospect of rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, John Ratcliffe, who served as the director of national intelligence, said Monday that the U.S. should not loosen any sanctions on Iran or rejoin the deal that the U.S. left in 2018 during the Trump administration.
“I know where the intelligence says it shouldn’t be headed, which is that we shouldn’t lifting sanctions on Iran under any circumstances because the intelligence doesn’t support changing the current policy at all,” Ratcliffe told Martha MacCallum of Fox News on Monday. “Within days after Joe Biden became President-elect Biden, he talked about wanting to return to the Iranian nuclear deal“ but that “my hope was that once he started to receive intelligence briefings, he would change his mind because there’s no intelligence to support that.”
Insisting “the intelligence shows” that Iran “is weaker, poorer, and less influential in the Middle East than they’ve been in decades,” Ratcliffe said that “peace agreements between Israel and Bahrain and UAE would not have been possible in the past, but Iran is not in a position to bully their Middle East neighbors, and as a result, American troops are safer, the Middle East is safer, and there really isn’t any justification, certainly no intelligence, that would warrant going back to an Iranian nuclear deal.”
Read more at Washington Examiner.
{Matzav.com}
