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US intelligence assessment says Iran not currently developing nuclear weapons
2023-07-11
Oddly enough, that's exactly what the CIA’s assessment was in 2003 and subsequent years, up until Prime Minister Netanyahu stood up in front of the UN General Assembly and showed the world what the Mossad had liberated from Iran’s nuclear weapon development archive in Tehran. Perhaps what the Director of National Intelligence means is that while Iran was working on that a minute ago, and will be working on it a minute from now, during this exact minute they are not doing any such thing. The fact that right now they’re on their lunch break is immaterial to the point in question.
[IsraelTimes] A US intelligence assessment says Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is not pursuing nuclear weapons at the moment, but has ramped up activities that could help it develop them.
For years they’ve been parading the missiles that will carry their nukes in their annual weapons parade, so those can be assumed to need no further development.
The assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says Iran has moved to increase its capacity to produce an atomic bomb since 2020, but has stopped short of that so far.
They have? Then why do they keep buying more centrifuges, centrifuges that are more efficient and therefore capable of more quickly refining uranium in ever larger quantities?
The findings correspond with previous US assessments about Iran’s nuclear program, although many in Congress and elsewhere have been skeptical of those.
I do believe Rantburg counts as elsewhere...
"Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device," according to the two-page unclassified synopsis of the report.
Have your spies checked out what’s going on in those other sites in the Netanyahu report, or does this just refer to the sites Iran has admitted to and allowed the IAEA to inspect?
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Iran is also pursuing "research and development activities that would bring it closer to producing the fissile material needed for completing a nuclear device following a decision to do so," the report says.
Marvelously responsive to the unspoken desires of their master. One can only admire the thoroughness.
Posted by:trailing wife

#9  This assessment is useful as a litmus test to detect stupidity. Assume anyone who references this report as authoritative to be beyond mouth breather dumb.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-07-11 15:10  

#8  Would this be the same intelligence community that missed Pearl Harbor and the 9/11/2001 attacks?
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2023-07-11 13:25  

#7  You need this predicate, however dishonest it actually is, to clear the way for the release of impounded funds and sanctions relief. Since they no longer care about actually being believed, just have to go through the motions, you create this fiction so the Puppet Show can give the Mullahs all the money. ValJar, Samantha, and the rest see the end of the Puppet nearing and however risible, need to get all that they can. Across the spectrum, the niagra falls of funding friends is underway.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-07-11 11:12  

#6  Disinformation and deception are the lock and stock of these people. I you do not question their tenacity at every turn, you are simply not paying attention.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-07-11 09:50  

#5  Riiiiiiight.

And I have some seafront property in Montana to sell ya.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-07-11 09:45  

#4  same Intelligence Community that missed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Soviet Union, the futility of the Viet and Afghan conflicts, missed the Boston Bombers, ignored the 9/11 threat tippers, lost operational control of MAJ Nadal Hasan, and still retain classified documents related to a 1963 presidential assassination
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-07-11 09:29  

#3  Same 'intelligence assessment' people who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-07-11 08:23  

#2  Meanwhile, AI [which could spider the web and scrub indicative content] remains in Schumer's hands.

Wonder what happened to Kamala, the AI Czar?

Congress pushes aggressive use of AI in the federal government, says AI 'under-utilized' in agencies
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-11 03:59  

#1  I apologize if this is unfairly or overly critical, but I’m afraid it’s one of my hot buttons.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-07-11 01:29  

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