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US says Iran five years away from nuclear arms
The United States, responding to reported Israeli fears on Iran nuclear program, said Tehran was at least five years away from developing nuclear arms.US officials confirmed that Iran's nuclear ambitions were discussed by President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at their Texas summit Monday. Sharon spread out photos of Iranian nuclear sites and cited Israeli intelligence that showed Iran was near "a point of no return" in developing the know-how to produce a bomb, a US daily reported. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the international community was concerned about Iran's intentions, but US intelligence suggested Tehran still had a ways to go in developing nuclear weapons. "Our intelligence community has used in the past an estimate that said that Iran was not likely to acquire a nuclear weapon before the beginning of the next decade. That remains the case," he said. This new "sweetness and light" attitude is becoming scary. My suspicions run deep. Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-04-14 |
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