Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wants to use diplomacy with Iran and not engage in a full scale war.

She made her opinion known during an interview with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly on her Sirius XM show.

“On the Iran front, here’s the argument that the more neocon crew makes, alright? This is from Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, one of these think tanks in Washington that wants a hard line toward them. He recently tweeted, “The Islamic Republic is weaker than ever, hated by most Iranians, hammered by the IDF and Mossad, its terror armies—meaning Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah—air defense missile production capability are in ruins. Never a better time to dismantle its nuke program and finish off the regime. Will another president blink?” How is he wrong?” the host said.

“First of all, the military option is always on the table. The President often talks about peace through strength, and he means what he says when he talks about his objective, which is also Prime Minister Netanyahu’s objective, and I think many countries in the world would agree, that Iran cannot be in a position to have a nuclear weapon or to develop a nuclear weapon. That is unequivocal,” the DNI chief said..

“How we get there is really the question. The President is of the mind, as he has been consistently through his first term in office, as he is now, if there is a way to achieve what is in our best national security interests through peaceful means, through negotiations—not blind trust, like, “Okay, we’re just going to believe whatever they say,” not at all. Any deal that is potentially made with Iran will have to come with a very, very rigorous set of verification means, nothing like the failure that was the JCPOA that President Obama negotiated. The deal that President Trump, through his very talented and exceptional ambassador in Steve Witkoff, is negotiating is a deal that will best serve the security interests of the American people,” she said.

“Do you feel, Tulsi, the push of this, like, strong neocon strain that’s still within the Republican Party and probably in these agencies, that’s much more hawkish on an issue, including war in the Middle East, which we’ve just done for 20 years?” the host said.

“Yeah, of course, the pressure is there,” the DNI chief responded.

“The debate is happening in the public, which I think is a good thing. It’s a positive thing that we’re hearing from different elements, yes, even within the Republican Party,” she said.