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Trump lashes out at US spy chiefs over Iran, North Korea and ISIL

2019-01-31 09:42:03       source:The Aljazeera

January 31, 2019


US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called top US intelligence chiefs "extremely passive and naive" on Iran and dismissed their assessments of the threat posed by North Korea a day after they contradicted his views during congressional testimony.


Leaders of the US intelligence community told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nuclear threat from North Korea remained and that Iran was not taking steps towards making a nuclear bomb, drawing conclusions that contrasted starkly with Trump's assessments of those countries.


"The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong!" Trump said in a Twitter post.


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