CIA Chief Warns Trump That Iran May Not Be Negotiating in Good Faith

US intelligence chief warned President Donald Trump that Iran’s intentions in the nuclear talks are being questioned, according to the report. The assessment, presented as a contradiction between what senior Iranian officials are saying and what they are actually conveying, has deepened internal US doubts about the deal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are said to share the skepticism, while Vice President JD Vance and Jared Kushner support the agreement.

Vance said on CNN that the deal creates a mechanism under which, if Iran behaves like a normal country, Washington will treat it that way and bring it into the global economy. He said the first clause of the understanding includes mutual commitments by Iran and the US to regional stability and peace. When asked whether ending support for Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas, and curbing Iran’s ballistic missile program, are explicitly written into the text, Vance said the document is only about a page and a half long, but those issues were covered in talks. He added, “We’ll need to resolve some issues during the technical negotiation phase.”

Vance also said the most important point is an unequivocal Iranian commitment that it will never have nuclear weapons, and claimed Iran’s nuclear program has been “completely destroyed.” He said the US holds leverage because it can either integrate Iran into the world economy if it complies, or tell it it gets nothing if it does not.

Separately, Vance told NBC that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors will be allowed back into Iran under the deal, and that the US and the IAEA will help destroy Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. He told Fox News that Trump may decide to publish the memorandum’s details before the signing scheduled for Friday. Trump wrote on Truth Social that “Iran agreed that it will never possess nuclear weapons,” and called claims that Washington is paying Tehran $300 million “fake news” from Democrats.