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The IC [U.S. Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.
That was Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, delivering the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment just three months before American bombers struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025.
More than a year later, the U.S. is embroiled in a war that has dragged on for nearly eight months, with attacks spreading across the region and no clear end in sight. Yet preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons remains one of the central justifications for continuing the fight.
At Sunday night’s debate — her first and only face-off with Democratic challenger Dr. Annie Andrews before the November election — Republican South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham insisted the U.S. was close to finishing the job.