IAEA dismisses "secret report"

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.