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March 7, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/deb43818-eae9-11dc-a5f4-0000779fd2ac.html

U.S. Under Fire Over Iran N-Plan Report

[Financial Times-UK] James Blitz and Tony Barber - A U.S. intelligence report into Iran's nuclear arms program was on Wednesday subjected to strong criticism by a senior UK diplomat, who claimed the assessment had been too categorical in stating that Tehran halted work on building an atomic weapon in 2003. The diplomat said the outside world could not be sure Tehran had stopped covert work on a weapon. "I have never seen any intelligence that gives me even medium confidence that these programs have not been resumed," he said. The remarks coincided with a call by Danny Yatom, former head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, who is touring Europe and Asia to persuade governments that a "wait and see" stance to Iran's nuclear program is no longer wise. He told the Financial Times that the world must act to stop Iran's nuclear program because Tehran is within a year of making a nuclear bomb.

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