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Trump Lied about Iran Being Days from Having Nuclear Weapons

Trump Lied about Iran Being Days from Having Nuclear Weapons

Last updated on: March 12, 2026 at 9:43 pm by Kermit Zarley

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Trump Lied about Iran Being Days from Having Nuclear Weapons 2026-03-12T21:43:49-07:00 Kermit Zarley

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U.S. President Donald Trump has given conflicting information about why he decided for the U.S. to attack Iran in a war that is now over twelve days old. He has said he did it to help Iran protestors overthrow their Islamic Republic, to force a regime change, to destroy Iran’s capability to make nuclear weapons and deliver them. Of course, Trump could have multiple reasons for pursuing this war. But the last one makes more sense to most Americans, who nevertheless are against this war.

Iran’s theocratic government has been such a disruptor in the Middle East and a threat to its southern Arab neighboring nations who are predominantly Sunni whereas Iran is Shiite/Shia. Thus, this is a serious divide in theology. And Iran’s Shiite leaders believe most strongly that the Qur’an encourages and commands “believers” to “fight for the cause of Allah/God,” resulting in great rewards in heaven for such martyrs.

Trump Said Iran Almost Had Nuclear Weapons

So, this Iran war was a “war of choice,” not by the American people but by their President Donald Trump. When it started, he said Iran “would’ve had a nuclear weapon within in two weeks to four weeks.”

For decades, that has been a big point of discussion among experts. Now, both Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Steve Wikoff—special envoys appointed by President Trump to negotiate the Gaza war and with Iran leaders immediately prior to this war—are saying the same thing as Trump, that Iran was weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

Yet the U.S. and Israel had bombed Iran last June for the sole purpose of destroying that nuclear weapon capability, and afterwards Trump said Iran’s uranium enrichment capabilities for creating a nuclear warhead were “completely and totally obliterated.” That conflicts with what Trump said when he started this current war with Iran.

U.S. Intelligence Community Report: Iran Has Not Had a Nuclear Weapons Program Since 2003

Moreover, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence issued the Annual Threat Assessment report in March 2025, which is produced by the U.S. Intelligence Community. That was only two months after Donald Trump had reentered the White House. That report said under the heading Iran and WMD the following (you can read it online, and bold is theirs): “We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so. In the past year, there has been an erosion of a decades-long taboo on discussing nuclear weapons in public that has emboldened nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decisionmaking apparatus. Khamenei remains the final decisionmaker over Iran’s nuclear program, to include any decision to develop nuclear weapons.”

IAEA Said Iran Wasn’t Making Nuclear Weapons

Iran still has nuclear facilities, but it maintains that they are only for civilian, not military, purposes, to someday produce nuclear energy. In June, 2025, only days before the U.S. and Israel attacked those Iranian nuclear facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IEAA) stated that there are “no credible indications of an ongoing, undeclared structured nuclear programme” to develop nuclear weapons in Iran. Plus, it stated, as is well known, that high officials in the country, who likely would have been mostly clerics, said that using nuclear weapons was “incompatible with Islamic Law.”

Yet the U.S. started started this current war with Iran on the false assertion by President Donald Trump that Iran is within days of having nuclear weapons. That is similar to the U.S. starting the war with Iran’s next-door neighbor Iraq in 2003 on the false assertion by President George W. Bush and Vice President Don Cheney that Iraq had nuclear weapons. The latter turned out to be a huge embarrassment for Bush that shut him up about politics the rest of his life so far. Will the same happen to Trump?

Furthermore, Trump said Iran was building an ICBM program to be able to shoot missiles at the U.S. But Emma Sandifer, program coordinator at the nonpartisan Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said recently in an email, “There is little evidence that Iran could build missiles that reach the United States in the near future. Recent estimates determined that not only does Iran have no intercontinental ballistic missile capability, but the country appears to have maintained its self-imposed missile range limit of 2,000 km.”

What the Bible Says about Liars

Nevertheless, Donald Trump is, as I have repeatedly said on this blog, the biggest liar I have ever seen in my lifetime. As I documented in my book, Bible Predicts Trump Fall, narcissistic Donald Trump does not believe in facts or telling the truth but in telling people what he wants them to think. When Trump’s sister, a judge, was told that Donald was going to run for president the first time, she was aghast and said, “He has no morals.” What does the Bible say about liars? It says in the NRSV:

“A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape” (Proverbs 19.5).

“A false witness will not go unpunished, and the liar will perish” (Proverbs 19.9)

“A false witness will perish, but a good listener will testify successfully” (Proverbs 21.28).

Jesus said, “the devil … is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8.44).

“Every word of God proves true” (Proverbs 30.5).

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