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Not exactly the story the Bush Bunch is putting out. This guy may be out of a job soon. Link below; my emphasis.
"‘Iran is ``some years away'' from developing a nuclear bomb, said Thomas Fingar, deputy U.S. director of national intelligence.
Fingar, who chairs the National Intelligence Council, said that's the shared assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies. Fingar, one of three deputies who reports to national intelligence director John Negroponte, is in charge of intelligence analysis.
The question of how soon Iran could build a nuclear weapon gained urgency April 11 when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country had enriched uranium sufficiently to produce nuclear fuel. He said used 164 centrifuges were used. Yesterday, Deputy nuclear chief Mohammad Saeedi said Iran planned to install 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz plant this year, then expand to 54,000. Nuclear experts say that's enough to build a bomb.
Fingar and other senior intelligence officials, talking with reporters in Washington, sought to put Iran's assertions in context.
Kenneth Brill, head of the National Counterproliferation Center and the U.S. envoy to the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, said previous Iranian claims about their number of working centrifuges were exaggerated.
An arms inspector visiting Iran ``several years ago was presented with a very full array of centrifuges and told, `Look, we're all ready to go,' and that turned out to be a sort of Potemkin arrangement,'' Brill said.
``There is still a very significant amount of time'' before Iranians ``get where they want to go,'' he said. ``Let's see what really happened in Iran.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aNoAAXkJyZTI&refer=top_world_news
"‘Iran is ``some years away'' from developing a nuclear bomb, said Thomas Fingar, deputy U.S. director of national intelligence.
Fingar, who chairs the National Intelligence Council, said that's the shared assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies. Fingar, one of three deputies who reports to national intelligence director John Negroponte, is in charge of intelligence analysis.
The question of how soon Iran could build a nuclear weapon gained urgency April 11 when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country had enriched uranium sufficiently to produce nuclear fuel. He said used 164 centrifuges were used. Yesterday, Deputy nuclear chief Mohammad Saeedi said Iran planned to install 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz plant this year, then expand to 54,000. Nuclear experts say that's enough to build a bomb.
Fingar and other senior intelligence officials, talking with reporters in Washington, sought to put Iran's assertions in context.
Kenneth Brill, head of the National Counterproliferation Center and the U.S. envoy to the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, said previous Iranian claims about their number of working centrifuges were exaggerated.
An arms inspector visiting Iran ``several years ago was presented with a very full array of centrifuges and told, `Look, we're all ready to go,' and that turned out to be a sort of Potemkin arrangement,'' Brill said.
``There is still a very significant amount of time'' before Iranians ``get where they want to go,'' he said. ``Let's see what really happened in Iran.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aNoAAXkJyZTI&refer=top_world_news