Trump tells US intelligence services to 'go back to school' in dispute over Iran

US President Donald Trump has called his intelligence agencies "naive" and told them to "go back to school," a day after they contradicted a number of claims his administration made about its foreign policy success.

US President Donald Trump has slammed his own intelligence services, calling them "naive" and in need of schooling. Source: AAP

US President Donald Trump upped the public row with his own intelligence services in tweets slamming them as "naive" on Iran and in need of schooling.

The broadside was a riposte to a far more sober but equally emphatic rejection by the intelligence community during congressional testimony Tuesday of many of Trump's claims to foreign policy successes.

Insisting that Iran's nuclear program remains dangerous, Trump said his intelligence advisors, who believe Tehran is largely abiding by an international commitment to shelve nuclear weapons ambitions, need to be more realistic.

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