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Donald Trump criticized intelligence services on Wednesday as "naive".

"The intelligence services seem extremely pbadive and innocent in the face of the dangers of Iran, they are wrong!", Trump continued.

This is not the first time Trump has publicly questioned his intelligence services, although this time he was particularly vehement.

At Tuesday's hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the director of intelligence services, Dan Coats, asked if the Islamic State group (ISIS) had been defeated and whether North Korea completely renounced possession of nuclear weapons. For its part, CIA chief Gina Haspel has questioned the fact that Iran is actively seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, which was Trump's justification for unilaterally lowering the nuclear deal with Tehran. Last year.