Judicial Watch Sues for Records Tied to Biden Administration Cover-Up on Iran Nuclear Program

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for records regarding the Biden administration’s failure to produce statutorily required reports on Iran’s uranium enrichment activities (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (No. 1:26-cv-00083-APM)).

The lawsuit also seeks all communications between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence  and the 2024 presidential campaigns of President Biden and his replacement atop the Democrat ticket Vice President Harris regarding the required reports on the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment.

The Iran Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terrorism Act of 2022 requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to submit semi-annual reports to Congress on Iran’s nuclear activities, including enrichment.

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence failed to respond to a June 30, 2025, FOIA request for:

•        Any and all records concerning, regarding, or relating to the delay of ODNI’s statutorily required reports regarding significant enrichment activity by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

•         Any and all communications between ODNI and the White House concerning, regarding, or relating to the production and/or delay of the above referenced reports.

•         Any and all communications between ODNI and the Biden presidential campaign concerning, regarding, or relating to the production and/or delay of the above referenced reports.

•         Any and all communications between ODNI and the Harris presidential campaign concerning, regarding, or relating to the production and/or delay of the above referenced reports.

TheThe Biden administration pledged to engage in diplomacy with Iran and revive the 2015 nuclear deal. The Biden team also pushed back against international attempts to censure Iran for its nonproliferation violations, reports said. On May 27, 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported that the United States was blocking European states from pursuing a formal censure of Iran at the June board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), despite a push by the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. According to the Journal, the “U.S. has pressed a number of other countries to abstain in a censure vote, saying that is what Washington will do.” The IAEA ultimately passed the censure resolution on June 5, 2024.

A July 11, 2024, press release from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated that then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines had failed to produce multiple reports on Iran’s nuclear threat, including uranium enrichment, that are required by law. Biden dropped out of the presidential race on July 21, 2024, and endorsed Harris, who became the party’s nominee on August 5, 2024.

In March of last year, the Trump administration’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported in its Annual Threat Assessment that Iran “possesses the highest uranium enrichment levels of any non-nuclear state and remains capable of enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.”

Weeks after President Trump ordered the “Midnight Hammer” operation on June 22, 2025, in which the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, the White House assessed that Iran before the attack had the capacity to enrich enough material for a nuclear weapon within weeks if it chose to do so.

“Judicial Watch’s lawsuit is aimed at finding out why, as Iran was expanding its dangerous nuclear weapons program, the Biden-Harris administration failed to produce these vital reports documenting a clear and present danger to the United States,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

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