{"id":346011,"date":"2026-03-18T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/346011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:44:12","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-tells-senate-panel-us-strikes-on-iran-are-strategic-success-us-israel-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/346011\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard tells Senate panel US strikes on Iran are strategic success | US-Israel war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence who in 2019 was selling \u201cNo War With Iran\u201d T-shirts, told the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday that US strikes on Iran had been a strategic success.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to remind those who are watching what I am briefing here today conveys the intelligence community\u2019s assessment of the threats facing US citizens, our homeland and our interests,\u201d Gabbard told the committee, \u201cnot my personal views or opinions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes to the US-Israeli campaign have already killed 13 American service members and wounded approximately 200 more, cost taxpayers billions of dollars and scrambled global supply chains for oil, fertilizer and aluminum. This week, when Donald Trump<\/a> asked allies to help reopen the strait of Hormuz, the call wasn\u2019t answered.<\/p>\n

According to the annual global threat assessment report, Iran\u2019s conventional military projection capabilities had been \u201clargely destroyed\u201d, Gabbard said, and Iran\u2019s strategic position \u201csignificantly degraded\u201d. But, the regime appears intact, and since internal protests have been violently suppressed with thousands killed, if it survives, Iran would probably \u201cseek to begin a years-long effort to rebuild its military, missiles and UAV forces\u201d.<\/p>\n

In last year\u2019s assessment<\/a>, the intelligence community assessed that \u201cIran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 assessment also said that missile threats to the US homeland were projected to grow from roughly 3,000 to more than 16,000 by 2035, that North Korean hackers stole $2bn in cryptocurrency last year, and the Islamic State is actively rebuilding in Syria.<\/p>\n

But it was what the assessment did not say that drew the sharpest response. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the vice-chair of the intelligence committee, noted that for the first time since 2017, the assessment contained no mention of adversary attempts to influence American elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe this omission means that the threat has disappeared,\u201d Warner said. \u201cIt means that the intelligence community is no longer being allowed to speak honestly about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to questioning from Warner, Gabbard said that she did not \u201cparticipate\u201d in the FBI seizure of 2020 election documentation in Fulton county, but was present \u201cat the request of the president, and to work with the FBI to observe this action that had long been awaited\u201d.<\/p>\n

Warner had asked Gabbard what she was doing there, given that the criminal warrant \u201cshowed no foreign interference or nexus. As a matter of fact, the warrant was based on conspiracy theories that have already been examined and rejected repeatedly.\u201d Warner was one of the earliest and most vocal critics of the Fulton county action by the FBI.<\/p>\n

Gabbard asserted that her directorate hd authority to investigate threats of foreign interference on elections, referring to a letter sent to Congress shortly after the FBI raid. She said Trump sent her to observe, but added that she had no prior knowledge of the contents of the warrant affidavit, and that she was \u201cnot aware that the president knew about an affidavit before it was served\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen why was he sending you to Fulton County?\u201d Warner asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis occurred the day that the FBI had approved their warrant, approved by a local judge, and they began to execute this,\u201d she replied before quickly moving on to other topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence who in 2019 was selling \u201cNo War With Iran\u201d T-shirts, told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-346011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}