CIA Reminds Wrong Fatal Predictions About Iran-Isrel Not Going To War Out

Iran's Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile launch exercise. (Wikimedia Commons-ypa.ir-Hossein Velayati)

JAKARTA - US federal government intelligence agency or CIA warned of a potential massive war in the Middle East.

This was said by CIA Director William Burns amid the assessment of the US intelligence community that Iranian and Israeli leaders had no plans for an all-out war.

"We face a very real danger from further regional conflict escalation," Burns said during a question and answer session at Cipher Brief's annual threat conference at Sea Island, Georgia, Monday, October 7 local time, quoted by CBN News, Tuesday, October 8.

Burns explained that Israeli leaders considered very carefully how to respond to Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israeli territory in early October 2024.

However, he stressed the errors predicting the conflict in the Middle East could lead to an accidental escalation spiral.

"Middle East is a place where complicated things happen all the time," said Burns.

Burns claimed, in Iranian missile attacks on Israeli territory, strong US-Israeli intelligence cooperation minimized its impact.

He said, in the missile attack in early October 2024, a number of Iranian military forces "restrictions" were revealed.

"That doesn't mean there is no serious response from Israel, but also the United States," he said.

Furthermore, Burns, who was involved in the 2015 nuclear negotiations, agreed on the limits of Iran's uranium enrichment program, said the CIA had not seen any indications of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accelerating his country's efforts to produce nuclear weapons.

However, he acknowledged that Iran has the power to make powerful bombs that can be used at any time.

"We see no evidence today that the Supreme Leader has overturned the decision he made at the end of 2003 to suspend the weapons program," Burns said.