Links, Leads & Headlines: On the delayed NIE

U.S.: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003
Officials Say Iran Continues With Uranium Enrichment

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 3, 2007; 1:14 PM

Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 in response to international pressure, and while it continues to develop an enriched uranium program, it apparently has not resumed moving toward a nuclear capability, according to a consensus judgment of the U.S. intelligence community released today by Director of National Intelligence John M. McConnell...[Open in new window]

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U.S. Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: December 3, 2007

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — 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...[Open in new window]

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U.S. intelligence: Iran apparently halted nuclear weapons drive in 2003
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Iran was attempting to build a nuclear weapon but halted the effort in the fall of 2003 and doesn't appear to have restarted it, the declassified key judgments of a comprehensive new U.S. intelligence report said Monday...[Open in new window]

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Link to the complete document:

http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20071203_release.pdf
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Not too hard to figure out why it was delayed.