U.S. Hangs Back as Inspectors Prepare Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — An imminent report by United Nations weapons inspectors includes the strongest evidence yet that Iran has worked in recent years on a kind of sophisticated explosives technology that is primarily used to trigger a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials who have been briefed on the intelligence.
But the case is hardly conclusive. Iran’s restrictions on inspectors have muddied the picture. And however suggestive the evidence about what the International Atomic Energy Agency calls “possible military dimensions” of Iran’s program turns out to be, the only sure bet is that the mix of sleuthing, logic and intuition by nuclear investigators will be endlessly compared with the American intelligence agencies’ huge mistakes in Iraq in 2003.
Read more ....
More News On The Impending IAEA Report on Iran's Nuclear Program
IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability -- Washington Post
IAEA report on Iran set to raise Middle East tension -- Reuters
Iran: Heading toward a nuclear show-down? -- BBC
Ahmadinejad Warns Against Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities -- Voice of America
IAEA due to expose Iranian nuclear weapons design and testing facility -- The Guardian
Iran Nuke Pursuit in High Gear, U.N. Watchdog to Report -- Fox News
Iran mastered critical steps to build nuke: report -- AFP
Russia and China warn America against Iran strike as tensions rise ahead of damning atomic agency report -- Daily Mail
Russia issues stark warning against attack on Iran --
Russia: Israeli threat of strikes on Iran 'a mistake' -- BBC
Foreign scientists helping Iran reach nuclear capability -- Jerusalem Post
Report Says Iran Moving Closer to Nuclear Weapons -- Voice of America
Iran nuclear report triggers appeal for calm -- Sydney Morning Herald
Insight: Has Iran ended Israel's Begin Doctrine? -- Reuters
Living With a Nuclear-Armed Iran -- Michael D. Purzycki, International Affairs Review
America’s Deadly Dynamics With Iran -- David Sanger, New York Times
Enforcing existing sanctions on Iran -- Avi Jorisch, The Washington Times
The world is misreading Obama on Iran -- David Rothkopf, Foreign Affairs
Iran Said to Be On Brink of Nuclear Capability -- The Slate
Q+A: U.N. report on Iran's nuclear program -- Reuters