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US intel services: Iran halted weapons program in 2003
“We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program” is the “key judgement” of the new US National Intelligence Assessment (NIE, page 6), a consensus of all US spy agencies. “We assess with moderate confidence Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007, but we do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons”. � This surprise NIE will remove much pressure for preventive strikes on Iran in the near future, and directly contradicts many recent statements from the White House. The NIE has been delayed some months while the the US spy agencies checked their information, which apparently came to light after previous� NIE was published in 2005 -� a report the New York Times describes as “deeply flawed”, which stated that Iran probably had a program� but was at least 10 years from a bomb.
