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Most of you know that I love the American Prospect: in fact I just renewed my subscription for a two year period. So I'll give you a fucking important link to their group blogSo the National Intellegance Estimate states that Iran discontinued its nuclear program in 2003 and probably hasn't restarted it. Best part, the AP article about said
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Verification in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The report before you provides an update on the implementation of Agency safeguards in the Islamic Republic of Iran. As you know, the Agency has so far not been able to verify some important aspects of Iran´s nuclear programme: those relevant to the scope and nature of Iran´s centrifuge enrichment activities, as well as those relevant to alleged studies and other activities that could have military applications. Iran´s past undeclared nuclear activities, together with these verification issues, resulted in the Agency´s inability to make progress in providing assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and created a confidence deficit about the nature of Iran´s nuclear programme. This prompted the Security Council to adopt a number of resolutions calling on Iran to clarify these outstanding verification issues, and to undertake simultaneously confidence building measures, including the implementation of the additional protocol and the suspension of uranium enrichment activities.
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Statements/2007/ebsp2007n019.html#iran
I would remind you thatNorth Korea kept much of its program secret too. Also, I would note that this is the same intelligence system that thought Iraq was still capable of making any WMD.
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