With a headline like that, you'd think that everything was coming up roses right?
Well when you get to the meat of everything, it doesn't:
Iran halted work toward a nuclear weapon under international scrutiny in 2003 and is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb until 2010 to 2015, a U.S. intelligence report says.
A declassified summary of the latest National Intelligence Estimate found with "high confidence" that the Islamic republic stopped an effort to develop nuclear weapons in the fall of 2003.
The estimate is less severe than a 2005 report that judged the Iranian leadership was "determined to develop nuclear weapons despite its international obligations and international pressure."
But the latest report says Iran -- which declared its ability to produced enriched uranium for a civilian energy program in 2006 -- could reverse that decision and eventually produce a nuclear weapon if it wanted to do so.
In other words, they may indeed have stopped their nuclear weapons program, or at least slowed it to the point of trickling, but if they wanted to, they could have a weapon in short order.
However, this is in fact, makes a liar out of Ahmadinejad when he claimed their nuclear program was strictly for "peaceful purposes".
They were working on a program up until 2003, and they were wanting to get weapons. They are playing the same game that Saddam did with his WMD's program. Wait out the world, when no one is looking, ramp it up and then hold the world hostage to your demands.
Case in point? The report reads:
Available intelligence suggests the Iranian leadership is guided "by a cost-benefit approach," not a headlong rush to develop a bomb, the report concludes.
In other words: "Let's get the bomb at a slower rate when people aren't looking".
Something doesn't smell quite right here, and I wonder why one intelligence report says one thing in 2005, and is severely lighter in 2007.
Travis
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