"Israel's defense minister... Israeli intelligence..Iran is still trying to develop a nuclearweapon"

[underpants]

However, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that Israeli intelligence believes Iran is still trying to develop a nuclear weapon.



However, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that Israeli intelligence believes Iran is still trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

"There are differences in the assessments of different organizations in the world about this, and only time will tell who is right," Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Army Radio.

On Monday, senior intelligence officials said they failed to detect Iran's fall 2003 halt in nuclear weapons development in time to reflect it in the 2005 estimate.

One of the officials said Iran is the most challenging country to spy on - harder even than North Korea, a notoriously closed society. "We put a lot more collection assets against this," the official said, "but gaps remain." The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, said the risk of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon remains "a serious problem."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=VARIT&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-04-07-29-43

[BridgeTheGap]

1. PBS News Hour last night covered this with David Kay and

Peter Rodman (formerly at Defense Dept.).
Rodman struck me as a hack for Bush. Kay promoted dialogue with Iran and Rodman kept saying it wouldn't work.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec07/nukes_12-03.html

[Benhurst]

2. It's always good to hear from an unbiased source

with no hidden agenda.

:eyes:

[bdamomma]

3. so now what, will Israel be that stupid to launch an attack on Iran