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Obama Administration: Report Shows Iran More Determined Than Ever to Build Nuclear Weapon
February 18, 2010 5:47 PM
Senior officials from the Obama administration called a new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran’s nuclear program “disturbing,” and suggested Iran's leaders are more determined than ever to pursue a nuclear weapon.
"The fact that they have increased the level of non-cooperation
indicated to me that unless we can mount the international pressure to
stop it, that this program is heading more and more in the direction of
seeking a weapons capability," a senior administration official. "The
pattern of behaviors is one that I think is very disturbing.”
“There is less and less credibility to the Iranian statement that
their program is peaceful and much stronger international recognition
that we are facing a country that is seeking a nuclear weapons
capability," the official said.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/02/obama-administration-report-shows-iran-more-determined-than-ever-to-build-nuclear-weapon.html
U.N. Watchdog Concerned Iran Is Working on Nuclear Weapon
Thursday, February 18, 2010
VIENNA — The U.N.
nuclear agency on Thursday said it was worried Iran may currently be
working on making a nuclear warhead, suggesting for the first time that
Tehran had either resumed such work or never stopped at the time U.S.
intelligence thought it did.
The
report by the International Atomic Energy Agency appeared to put the
U.N. nuclear monitor on the side of Germany, France, Britain and
Israel. These nations and other U.S. allies have disputed the
conclusions of a U.S. intelligence assessment published three years ago
that said Tehran appeared to have suspended such work in 2003.
The
U.S. assessment itself may be revised and is being looked at again by
American intelligence agencies. While U.S. officials continue to say
the 2007 conclusion was valid at the time, they have not ruled out the
possibility that Tehran resumed such work some time after that.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586601,00.html