Friday, February 13, 2009

US INTELLIGENCE CONFIRM IRAN NOT DEVELOPING NUKES

US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair
The US official added that the intelligence agency believes Iran is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon before 2013.
A ’stolen laptop’ that contains the primary ‘evidence’ that Iran has a bomb program may be a forgery, new evidence reveals. As with Iraq, the IAEA has investigated and dismissed almost all allegations about iran’s bom.
The new chief of US intelligence has confirmed the findings of a 2007 intelligence report that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. The 2007 intelligence report was widely seen as a setback for Bush administration efforts to pressure Iran and halt its nuclear program.
Dennis Blair told the Senate Intelligence Committee that his organization has assessed that Tehran does not have nuclear weapons design and weaponization work.
A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), issued in November 2007 by the sixteen US intelligence agencies, clarified that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
Blair also acknowledged that Tehran has made significant progress in its uranium enrichment program during the past two years.
US intelligence assesses that Iran does not currently have a nuclear weapon, and does not yet have enough fissile material for one," he affirmed.
Blair confirmed that the international community remains divided in dealing with the country's nuclear drive. Both Russia and China are against the imposition of additional sanctions on Iran over its nuclear activities.
The UN Security Council, influenced by the Bush administration, has intervened in Iran's nuclear dossier, slapping three rounds of sanctions against Tehran
The UN nuclear watchdog, which has carried out the highest number of inspections in its history on Iranian nuclear sites, has also found nothing to indicate that the program has diverted toward weaponization.
source: The Raw Story.Com

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