Donald Trump has accused his own intelligence services of being “naive” about Iran after top security officials contradicted his statements about the nuclear threat posed by both Iran and North Korea.
Tweeting a day after Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, and other spy agency chiefs presented views to Congress that seriously differed from Mr Trump’s claims about Iran, North Korea and Isis, the US president wrote that the “intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive” when it came to Tehran.
“They are wrong! When I became President Iran was making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond. Since ending the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, they are MUCH different, but a source of potential danger and conflict,” Mr Trump tweeted.