Trigger Mechanism (Iran) -- Christopher Hitchens, National Post
Some distance into Sunday’s New York Times report on the Obama administration’s increasingly worried internal discussions about Iran, there came a couple of paragraphs that repaid closer scrutiny:
“Mr. Obama’s top advisors say they no longer believe the key finding of a much disputed National Intelligence Estimate about Iran, published a year before President George W. Bush left office, which said that Iranian scientists ended all work on designing a nuclear warhead in late 2003. After reviewing new documents that have leaked out of Iran and debriefing defectors lured to the West, Mr. Obama’s advisors say they believe the work on weapons design is continuing on a smaller scale.” [Italics mine.]
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