The Newsweek has published an article revealing that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program. According to the article:
U.S. intelligence agencies have informed policymakers at the White House and other agencies that the status of Iranian work on development and production of a nuclear bomb has not changed since the formal National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran’s “Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities” in November 2007.
The new information puts the U.S intelligence agencies in odds with its European and Israeli counterparts. As the articles notes, “Officials of Israel’s conservative-led government have been delivering increasingly dire assessments of Iran’s nuclear progress and have leaked shrill threats about a possible Israeli military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.” Moreover, German court documents released earlier this year by the Germany’s foreign intelligence service, known as the BND, reported in 2008 that “development work on nuclear weapons can be observed in Iran even after 2003.”
As October 1st draws near, this new information can play a positive role and help “encourage the White House’s efforts to continue to try to engage Iran in diplomatic dialogue, including discussion of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.”
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