IAEA dismisses "secret report"
Steve Hynd points me to this Reuters article on the "secret IAEA report" we wrote about yesterday. Reuters asked the IAEA about the report, and the agency said it contains little more than speculation.
The U.N. nuclear agency has no proof that Iran has or once had a covert atomic bomb program, it said on Thursday, dismissing a report that it had concluded Iran was on its way to producing nuclear weapons.
[...] "With respect to a recent media report, the IAEA reiterates that it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapons program in Iran," an IAEA statement said.
The U.S. intelligence community apparently agrees, according to a new item on Newsweek's Web site. Several unnamed intelligence sources told the magazine that the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate still stands: In other words, Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003, and the U.S. doesn't think it has been restarted.
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Categories: Iran, Proliferation, Regional News
Tags: IAEA, Iranian nuclear program, National Intelligence Estimate
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