Iran not moving on bomb, say US spies

IRAN has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so, US intelligence officials told Congress.

This assessment contrasts with a stark Israeli warning days earlier that Iran had crossed the “technological threshold” in its pursuit of the bomb.

The Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, said that Iran had not made a decision to pursue the production of weapons-grade uranium and the parallel development of the ability to load it onto a capable ballistic missile.

“The overall situation – and the intelligence community agrees on this – [is] that Iran has not decided to press forward … to have a nuclear weapon on top of a ballistic missile,” Mr Blair told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Our current estimate is that the minimum time at which Iran could technically produce the amount of highly enriched uranium for a single weapon is 2010 to 2015.”

The five-year spread, he explained, was a result of differences of opinion in intelligence circles about how quickly Iran could develop a weapon if it rekindled a weapons program it suspended in 2003.

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