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...over its nuclear program. The U.S. has charged that what Iran claims to be a peaceful pursuit of nuclear energy is likely part of a rogue regime's covert effort to get its own nuclear weapons. After months of negotiating with European Union officials, Iran agreed to suspend the uranium-enrichment program that is at the heart of the accusations. Ten days later, however, Tehran put the deal in jeopardy by demanding an exemption for research involving a small number of centrifuges that are central to making bomb-grade fuel. By last weekend weary negotiators were still dickering over...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell last week went public with unverified intelligence that Iran is configuring missiles for nuclear warheads. The same day Powell revealed that tidbit, an Iranian exile group, considered a terrorist organization by the State Department, came forward with allegations that Tehran was enriching uranium at a secret site. A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Minister denied both charges and suggested that U.S. officials "reconsider their intelligence sources." Diplomats regarded the timing of the exile group's claims as suspect since the International Atomic Energy Agency is preparing to meet this week in Vienna. The IAEA last...
...Secretary of State. Still, she will undoubtedly be grilled about her record and management. She faced criticism for placing counterterrorism low on her list of priorities in the nine months before 9/11. And she shares the blame both for letting the now discredited allegations that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium in Africa get into Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech and for hyping the significance of high-strength aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy abroad...
...Despite deep skepticism from Washington, the European Union appears to have successfully negotiated a deal with Tehran under which it would cease the uranium enrichment activities that, while legal under the terms of the Non Proliferation Treaty, nonetheless have been conducted partly in secret, and certainly give Iran the capacity to create weapons-grade fissile material. Washington suspects Iran is playing for time, cutting deals for conditional suspensions of its enrichment program in order to avoid falling afoul of the international community, but nonetheless nurturing the intent - and, partly in secret, partly in the open, the means - to pursue nuclear...
This is cause for real concern. Although the CIA dropped the ball on the question of Iraqi WMD’s, their poor performance still put the Administration politicos to shame. Remember the embarrassing episode with that non-existent yellow-cake uranium from Niger? Despite CIA analysts’ concerns about the strength of the evidence, Thomas Rider, the former politically-appointed intelligence chief at the Department of Energy, went ahead and used it as the basis for a July 2002 report arguing that Saddam was beginning to reconstitute his nuclear weapons programs (whereupon he received a big pay bonus...