Deep State Leaks CIA Iran War Dossier to WaPo
This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit and was republished with permission. Guest post by Cristina Laila The Deep State leaked a CIA Iran war dossier to the Washington Post that refutes Trumpâs claims that the Iranian Regimeâs missiles are mostly decimated. On Wednesday, President Trump sparred with a reporter in the Oval Office during a meeting with UFC fighters. The reporter asked Trump about his decision to pause Project Freedom amid a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump told the reporter that the US military has decimated Iranâs missile capabilities and they probably only have about 18 percent left. âYouâre facing an opponent right now in Iran that has refused to submit. You seem optimistic announcing you may be closer to a deal â but whatâs different now?â a reporter asked Trump about his latest decision to pause Project Freedom. âWell, why do you say they refused to submit? You donât know that! You donât know whatâs going on behind closed doors,â Trump said. The reporter tried to interject: âThey were firing on US troops a few days agoâŠâ âYeah, a few days ago is a long time ago. You know, in the world of war, a few days ago, no, they want to make a deal badly. And weâll see if we get there,â Trump said. âIf we get there, they canât have nuclear weapons. You know, itâs very simple. But whatâs not to submit? So they had a Navy with one hundred and fifty nine ships and now every ship is blown to pieces and lying at the bottom of the water,â Trump added. âThey had an air force, lots of planes, and they donât have any planes. They donât have any anti aircraft. They donât have any radar left,â the president said. âTheir missiles are mostly decimated. They have some. They have probably 18, 19 percent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had,â he said. âAnd their leaders are all dead. So I think we won. Now itâs only a question of, look, if we left right now around, it would take them 20 years to rebuild!â Trump said. âWeâre in good shape.â WATCH: Like clockwork, the Deep State CIA leaked an Iran dossier to the Washington Post that refutes Trumpâs claims about Iranâs missile capabilities. The Washington Post reported: A confidential CIA analysis delivered to administration policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship, four people familiar with the document said, a finding that appears to raise new questions about President Donald Trumpâs optimism on ending the war. The analysis by the U.S. intelligence community, whose secret assessments on Iran have often been more sober than the administrationâs public statements, also found that Tehran retains significant ballistic missile capabilities despite weeks of intense U.S. and Israeli bombardment, three of the people familiar with it said. Iran retains about 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began. Trump painted a rosier picture in Oval Office remarks on Wednesday, saying of Iran: âTheir missiles are mostly decimated, they have probably 18, 19 percent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had.â Three current and one former U.S. official confirmed the outlines of the intelligence analysis, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. Copyright 2026 The Gateway Pundit
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