Gabbard present in the situation room during American strikes on Iranian installations
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The director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was inside the situation room on Saturday when the US military launched successful strikes on Iranian nuclear installations, a White House Official confirmed to Fox News Digital Sunday morning.
A White House official confirmed that Gabbard was in the room on Saturday and that she is a “key player” in the national security team of President Donald Trump.
Speculations had mounted that there was a gap between Gabbard and Trump after the president said that the Gabbard media were “erroneous” information on Iran in March when it testified before the Senate that the nation did not actively build a nuclear weapon.
Photos of the situation room published on Saturday evening did not show Gabbard present alongside Trump, Vice-President JD Vance, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and other administration officials. The photos, however, did not include wide plans showing the whole room or each individual present, the White House confirming the intelligence chief was present.
Trump and Gabbard appeared to disagree earlier in June, when the president was asked about Gabbard’s testimony before the Senate in March, when it said that Iran has not actively built a nuclear weapon. Trump told the media on June 16 that he did not care what Gabbard had to say during the previous testimonies, arguing that he thought that Iran was about to build a lime.
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President Trump and Dni Gabbard (Getty Images)
“You have always said that you don’t think Iran should be able to have a nuclear weapon,” a journalist asked Trump on the Air Force One on June 16. “But how far do you personally think they had to get one?”
“Very close,” replied Trump.
Again Friday, Trump said that Gabbard was “false” after reporting that Iran did not actively build a nuclear weapon.
“My intelligence community is wrong,” said Trump when asked about the intelligence community previously reporting that Iran did not actively build a nuclear weapon.
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When Gabbard appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee in March, she made a statement on behalf of the intelligence community which included testimonies that Iran did not actively build a nuclear weapon.
“Cyber operations and capacities of Iran also have a serious threat to American networks and data,” Gabbard told the committee on March 26.
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President Donald J. Trump in the situation room on June 21, 2025. (The White House via X)
The intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran does not constitute a nuclear weapon, and the supreme chief Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003,” she said. She added that “Iran’s enriched uranium stock is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons”.
“Iran will probably continue the efforts to counter-Israel And press for the American military withdrawal from the region by helping, stopping and helping to reconstruct his loose consortium of terrorist actors sharing the same ideas, which he calls his axis of resistance, “she warned.
The members of President Trump’s cabinet seated among the other senior officials in the situation room on June 21, 2025. (The White House via X)
However, while the criticisms separated the past comments from Gabbard, the White House underlined in Fox Digital that Gabbard and Trump were closely aligned with Iran.
A White House official told Fox News Digital Tuesday afternoon that Trump and Gabbard were closely aligned and that the increased distinction between Gabbard’s Mars testimony and Trump’s remarks that Iran is “very close” to obtaining a nuclear weapon is one without difference.
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The official noted that Gabbard had stressed in his testimony in March that Iran had the resources to potentially build a nuclear weapon. Her testimony from March reflected information which she had received that Iran did not build a weapon at the time, but that the country could do it according to the resources it raised for such a company.
President Donald Trump looks in the situation room on June 21, 2025. (The White House via X)
Gabbard went to social networks and castigated the media for having “intentionally” brought his testimony from March to the Senate Intelligence Committee “Outside context”.
“The dishonest media intentionally release my testimony from their context and broadcast the false news as a means of making a division,” said Gabbard A Friday article on X, Accompanied by a video clip of his March testimony at the Congress.
“America has intelligence that Iran is to the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon in weeks in months, if they decide to finalize the assembly,” she wrote. “President Trump has been clear that it cannot happen, and I agree.”
Trump addresses the nation on the “spectacular military success” of American strikes on Iranian nuclear installations
Trump announced in a social position Saturday Evening Truth that the US military had made strikes on three nuclear installations in Iran, the scares. Trump held a speech to the nation later on Saturday evening, describing strikes as a resounding success and supporting Iran in a corner to conclude a peace agreement.
President Donald Trump announced on June 21, 2025 that the US military had made strikes on three nuclear installations in Iran, the scares. (Carlos Barria / Reuters / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Not time ago, the American army made massive precision strikes on the three main nuclear installations of the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan,” Trump said from the White House on Saturday evening. “Everyone has heard these names for years because they have built this horribly destructive business. Our goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop of the nuclear threat posed by the world’s sponsor of the world in the world. Tonight, I can point out to the world that strikes were a spectacular military success.”
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“For 40 years, Iran said:” Death in America. Death in Israel “. They killed our people, breathtaking their arms, moving legs with bombes by the road,” continued Trump. “It was their specialty. We lost more than a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands through the Middle East and the whole world died accordingly of their hatred in particular.”
Fox News Digital contacted the office of the National Intelligence Director for any additional comment on Sunday strikes, but did not immediately receive an answer.
Alec Schemmel of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
