“Then you had the B2 bombers, which took out their nuclear capability, and they would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks to four weeks.”

Address to the nation and subsequent venues defending the Iran war

No intelligence assessment supports a two-to-four-week timeline before the June 2025 B-2 strikes. Three months earlier, the U.S. Intelligence Community's Annual Threat Assessment said: "We continue to assess Iran 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."

The genuine concern is Iran's stockpile, 441 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent as of June 2025. Experts say further enrichment to weapons grade "would take a matter of weeks in a fully functioning Iranian nuclear complex, perhaps explaining the time line within Trump's declaration." But enriched uranium is not a weapon, and experts found no evidence Iran was close to one.

"We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003." (Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Annual Threat Assessment, March 2025)