Article & Journal Resources: US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat

Article & Journal Resources

US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat

Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Monday December 3, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

A suspected Iranian nuclear research facility
A satellite image of a suspected nuclear research facility at the Parchin military site near Tehran. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images


US intelligence agencies undercut the White House today by disclosing for the first time that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapons development programme for the last four years.

The disclosure makes it harder for President George Bush and the vice-president, Dick Cheney, to make a case for a military strike against Iran next year.

It also makes it more difficult to persuade countries such as Russia and China to join the US, Britain and France in imposing a new round of sanctions on Tehran.

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