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Implications of the National Intelligence Estimate On Iran

By Stefan Simanowitz

To welcome this intelligence as wholly accurate is to concede the much disputed question of whether Iran has ever had a nuclear weapons programme.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18929.htm



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McGovern alleged that a joint U.S. and Israeli war on the Arab nation would likely come despite a recent National Intelligence Estimate suggesting that Iran has not had a functioning nuclear weapons program since 2003.

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Putin hopes U.S. had no hidden agenda in Iran nuclear report

Putin said it is theoretically possible that the report was published to "divert Iran's attention from preparations for military action," which would be a "grave mistake."

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071219/93214792.html



Bush's bid to punish Iranian banks stalls

The Bush administration's new policy of penalizing Iranian banks is facing a critical challenge as financial institutions in Russia, China and much of the Middle East decline to cut ties, analysts and diplomats say.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/18/africa/sanctions.php


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Did Bush Get New Iran Intel Last Winter?

White House officials have now admitted that George W. Bush was told that the intelligence assessment on a covert Iranian nuclear programme might change last August, but they have avoided answering the question of when the president was first informed about the new intelligence that led to that revised assessment.

http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1220


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Bush is now trying his best to twist and warp the published report so that it complements rather than contradicts his dire warnings about Iran, Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism at Stanford University, says.

http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/bush-twisting-nie-to-support-iran-war/2039/


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Human Events
by Pat Buchanan

12/15/07

The White House campaign to stampede this nation into war, to smash Iran’s nuclear facilities before she acquires the capability to build an atom bomb, has been derailed, probably for the duration of the Bush presidency. And the Bush policy — to leave the military option on the table while pressing China, Russia and NATO to back tougher sanctions in the Security Council — has been torpedoed. Who are the sappers of the Bush policy? The leaders of the 16 intelligence agencies Bush commands...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23976


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Erik Leaver, reporting for AlterNet, writes: "When the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was released noting that Iran gave up its nuclear weapons program in 2003, the council moved into action. Unanimously, it passed a resolution ensuring that no preemptive military attack by the United States against Iran takes place."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407F.shtml



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By William Blum

What possible reason would Iran have for attacking the United States or Israel other than an irresistible desire for mass national suicide?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18879.htm



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