Why is it difficult to reach a consensus on striking Iran? Media: Israel's strike against Iran is based on intelligence about "nuclear bomb" development, but the United States does not believe it.

On June 18, according to the Wall Street Journal, before the attack on Iran last week, Israel provided the United States with a piece of intelligence that it considered shocking: Tehran is re-conducting research useful for nuclear weapons, including an explosion triggering system. But U.S. officials who listened to Israel’s briefing did not believe the information indicating Tehran’s decision to create a nuclear bomb. The gap between Israel’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear program and that of the United States helps explain why the two sides have not agreed in recent days on the issue of striking Iran. Both sides basically agree that Iran has put itself in a better position to build a nuclear bomb in recent months. But the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies is that Iran has not yet decided to continue building a nuclear bomb. Mr. Trump’s view that Iran is on the verge of possessing a nuclear bomb has been echoed by some other administration officials. A senior administration official said: "We believe that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons. They have all the elements they need to form a whole. ”