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Monday, January 12, 2009 12:00 AM

Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran

Last year, the NIE famously concluded with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Why did Obama say yesterday that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons?

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 03:46 PM

    No evidence supports contention Iran is covertly seeking nuclear weapons

    Bravo, Glenn Greenwald! The Russians are very close to Iran's civilian nuclear power program, and they do not think Iran is secretly trying to build nuclear weapons or to be able to build them. Mohammed ElBaradei thinks Iran does not have a secret nuclear weapons development program, and he is the head of the IAEA which conducts frequent surprise inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities.

    Why would Obama pander to the Israeli militarists who are trying to frighten and deceive the American public? We got this same sort of smear campaign and fear-mongering in the lead-up to the insane invasion of Iraq.

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