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Source: http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/05/639702.aspx
U.S.: Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for Bomb in 2009, But More Likely After 2010
[NBC News] Pete Williams - McConnell said the U.S. intelligence community assesses "with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons." The earliest Iran would be technically capable of producing enough highly enriched uranium for a weapon is late 2009, but that's very unlikely, he said. More likely that date would be sometime between 2010 and 2015, he added.