Don’t Bomb Iran

US intel to Congress: We continue to assess Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons though we do not know whether Tehran eventually will decide to produce nuclear weapons.

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• 2009-06-11 Iran’s nuclear weapon ‘blueprints’ found by Western intel services
• 2009-02-03 Gaza offensive a “preintroduction” to Iran challenge – Israeli Ambassador
• 2008-07-21 US top warrior ignores intel, talking of “this issue of nuclear weapons”.
• 2008-07-01 CIA supressed intel that Iran had no weapons program, says ex-agent
• 2007-12-10 Israel: War with Iran may be unavoidable
• 2007-12-04 US intel services: Iran halted weapons program in 2003
• 2007-11-16 Decision time for US? IAEA says Iran one year from bomb?
• 2007-09-20 Stratfor says Iran has nuclear weapons – no evidence
• 2007-09-11 Iran will get bomb by mid 2009 and cannot be deterred: Netanyahu
• 2007-08-07 Bush lies: says Iran has announced a nuclear weapons program
• 2007-06-12 Risk of nuclear war rising: SIPRI
• 2007-04-18 Russia unable to finish Iranian nuclear plant by 2007 deadline
• 2007-03-11 Russia & Iran still debating March nuclear fuel delivery to Bushehr
• Iran could build bomb in 2007 – Frank Barnaby
• 2007-02-20 Iran 6 months from large scale enrichment, Trident does not help: El Baradei
• 2007-01-27 Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders
• 2007-01-25 Iran nuclear test this year with Korean help? UK Telegraph
• 2007-01-06 Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran: Revealed to Sunday Times
• 2006-12-19 Iran four years from bomb – 2010 – Mossad head
• 2006-12-16 Iran could hide sensitive nuclear work if attacked: senior official
• 2006-11-21 Iran has built nuclear weapon triggers, says Israeli intelligence without evidence
• 2006-11-19 Cheney rejects secret CIA report finding no Iranian nuclear weapons programme: Hersh
• 2006-10-28 Iran ‘six months’ from nuclear bomb – incorrect quote of Israel DM from AFP, Australian
• 2006-09-14 UN: Congressional report on Iran ‘dishonest’ and ‘outrageous’
• 2006-08-29 Bushehr reactor delayed: now scheduled to go critical late 2007
• 2006-06-15 A bomb every 16 days from secret Iran enrichment plant to open in 2007
• 2006-05-18 Doubts over Iran nuclear capacity – enrichment may not be so advanced
• 2006-04-21 Iran still years away from having nukes: US intel chief Negroponte
• 2006-04-03 Hans Blix: Iran five years from a bomb
• 2006-02-20 US started Iran’s nuclear program in 1970s
• Estimates of soonest Iran bomb over the years: analysis by Globalsecurity.org
• 2006-02-16 France and UK say Iran has secret nuclear arms programme
• 2006-02-13 Israeli army August 2005 esitmate :Iranian nuke by 2012, or 2008 if “all goes well”
• Mossad: bomb within two years: IDF: before the start of the next decade
• 2006-02-12 US 2006 Annual Threat Assessment: Iran has a weapons program, a clandestine enrichment program for two decades in violation of IAEA safeguards, but no estimate for an Iranian bomb
• 2006-02-08 David Albright / ISIS estimates 2009 as “worst case” earliest Iranian uranium bomb, likely longer
• 2005-11-30 Irans’ bomb: June 2006 to June 2007 – says US proliferation thinktank in Nov 2005
• 2005-10-30 Iran bomb 12 to 48 months away, learn to live with it: US Army Strategic Studies Institute
• 2005-10-15 Iran bomb Oct 2005 to Oct 2009, military strike self-defeating says US Army Strategic Studies Institute in 2005
• 2005-08-18 Iran’s bomb about 2015, if at all: US National Intelligence Estimate, 2005: Aug 2005
• 2005-08-02 US intelligence 2005: “don’t know” if Iran has weapons program, but “we are sceptical”; if they do, it will take 10 years
• 2003-12-09 CIA says IAEA safeguards will probably prevent Iran building bomb – except if Iran has secret facilities
• 2003-11-23 Israel serious about pre-emptive strike on Iran, Bushehr “too big” for nuclear power only, point of no return in 2004
• 2003-06-10 2003: G8 endorses military action to counter proliferation, says US – G8 Evian summit declaration
• 2000-06-18 Iran nuke missile by 2002 – says Israel in 2000
• 1998-07-01 Iran has ex-Soviet bombs claims Israel, will have its own by 2003-5, Israel needs nukes on subs