[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Iran *not* working on a nuke

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

See below.  So they abandoned the program 4 years ago and yet Stephen 
Hadley says what he says below -- bizarre!  What a crazy country we have! 
Reality will not get in the way of our plans.  --Mike


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-iran.html

A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran 
halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on 
hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working 
inexorably toward building a bomb.



Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor responded as follows:

Today's National Intelligence Estimate offers some positive news. It 
confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop 
nuclear weapons. It tells us that we have made progress in trying to 
ensure that this does not happen.

But the intelligence also tells us that the risk of Iran acquiring a 
nuclear weapon remains a very serious problem. The estimate offers grounds 
for hope that the problem can be solved diplomatically -- without the use 
of force -- as the Administration has been trying to do. And it suggests 
that the President has the right strategy: intensified international 
pressure along with a willingness to negotiate a solution that serves 
Iranian interests while ensuring that the world will never have to face a 
nuclear armed Iran.

The bottom line is this: for that strategy to succeed, the international 
community has to turn up the pressure on Iran -- with diplomatic 
isolation, United Nations sanctions, and with other financial pressure -- 
and Iran has to decide it wants to negotiate a solution.

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