Explosive new intelligence report reveals Iran's nuclear weapons program still active

FIRST ON FOX — A caller quality study claims Iran is continuing with its progressive atomic weapons program, which it says tin beryllium utilized to motorboat missiles implicit agelong distances. 

The startling quality gathering of Austrian officials contradicts the appraisal of the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate Intelligence Committee successful March that the American quality assemblage "continues to measure that Iran is not gathering a atomic limb and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the atomic weapons programme helium suspended successful 2003."

Austria’s mentation of the FBI — the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution — wrote Monday successful an quality report, "In bid to asseverate and enforce its determination governmental powerfulness ambitions, the Islamic Republic of Iran is striving for broad rearmament, with atomic weapons to marque the authorities immune to onslaught and to grow and consolidate its dominance successful the Middle East and beyond."

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses the media during the voting for Parliament Elections successful Tehran, Iran, May 10, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Austrian home quality bureau study added, "The Iranian atomic weapons improvement programme is good advanced, and Iran possesses a increasing arsenal of ballistic missiles susceptible of delivering atomic warheads implicit agelong distances."

According to an quality papers obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital, "Iran has developed blase sanctions-evasion networks, which has benefited Russia." 

The Austrian quality findings could beryllium an unwanted wrench successful President Trump’s dialog process to resoluteness the atomic situation with Iran’s rulers due to the fact that the information outlined successful the study suggests the authorities volition not wantonness its thrust to unafraid a atomic weapon.

In effect to the Austrian intelligence, a White House authoritative told Fox News Digital, "President Trump is committed to Iran ne'er obtaining a atomic limb oregon the capableness to physique one."

The information of the Islamic Republic of Iran arsenic a authorities sponsor of coercion (and its amerciable atomic weapons program) was cited 99 times successful the 211-page study that covers pressing threats to Austria’s democracy. 

The Bushehr atomic works successful Iran April 29, 2024 (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Vienna is location to 1 of the largest embassies of the Islamic Republic of Iran successful Europe, which disguises quality officers with diplomatic," the Austrian quality study noted.

"Iranian quality services are acquainted with processing and implementing circumvention strategies for the procurement of subject equipment, proliferation-sensitive technologies, and materials for weapons of wide destruction," the Austrian quality bureau said.

In 2021, a Belgium tribunal convicted Asadollah Asadi, a former Iranian diplomat based successful Vienna, for readying to stroke up a 2018 absorption gathering of tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents held extracurricular Paris. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served arsenic President Trump’s idiosyncratic lawyer astatine the time, attended the lawsuit successful France.

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When asked astir the differences successful conclusions betwixt the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Austrian quality report, David Albright, a physicist and laminitis and president of the Institute for Science and International Security successful Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital, "The ODNI study is stuck successful the past, a remnant of the fallacious unclassified 2007 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate].

"The Austrian study successful wide is akin to German and British assessments. Both governments, by the way, made wide to (the) U.S. IC [intelligence community] successful 2007 that they thought the U.S. appraisal was incorrect that the Iranian atomic weapons programme ended successful 2003.

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff shakes hands with Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi successful Muscat, Oman, April 12, 2025. (Oman News Agency/ Handout via Reuters)

"The German appraisal is from BND [Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service] presumption main successful D.C. astatine that time. The British info is from a elder British non-proliferation authoritative I was having meal with the time the 2007 NIE was made public. The German said the U.S. was misinterpreting information they each possessed." 

The Austrian quality findings that Tehran is moving connected an progressive atomic weapons programme "seems wide enough," said Albright.

In 2023, Fox News Digital revealed a caller batch of European quality reports showed that Iran sought to bypass U.S. and EU sanctions to unafraid exertion for its atomic weapons programme with a presumption toward investigating an atomic bomb.

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European quality agencies person documented anterior to 2015 and after the Iran atomic deal( JCPOA) was agreed upon that Tehran continued efforts to illegally unafraid exertion for its atomic, biologic and chemic weapons of wide demolition programs. 

The Austrian quality study noted that Iran provides weapons to the U.S.-designated violent movements Hamas and Hezbollah, arsenic good arsenic to Syrian militias.

A spokesperson for ODNI declined to comment. The U.S. State Department and U.S. National Security Council did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital property queries.