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August 9, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/09/us-israel-iran-usa-idUSBRE8780DL20120809

Israeli Defense Minister: Iran's Atomic Project Getting Harder to Foresee

(Reuters) Iran's nuclear moves are becoming harder for Israeli and U.S. intelligence to assess, making Tehran's atomic weapons drive an even more urgent matter, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday. Commenting on a report in Ha'aretz that President Obama had received a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) saying Iran had made significant and surprising progress toward military nuclear capability, Barak told Israel Radio: "There probably really is such an American intelligence report - I don't know if it is an NIE one - making its way around senior offices (in Washington)." "As far as we know it brings the American assessment much closer to ours...it makes the Iranian issue even more urgent and (shows it is) less clear and certain that we will know everything in time about their steady progress toward military nuclear capability."

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