# US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s intelligence agency chief, lieutenant general Jeffery Kruse, just weeks after a White House rebuke of a review assessing the impact of American strikes on Iran. In June, President Donald Trump pushed back strongly on a leaked report that found the attacks on Iran had set back its nuclear programme by months only. In a statement, US Senator Mark Warner warned that Kruse’s sacking was a sign that Trump had a dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for the country.
Pentagon fires intelligence agency chief after Iran attack assessment