The FT reports that the 2007 NIE on Iran, which fully contradicted the previous report of a few years earlier, is apparently itself no longer operative:

Iran has now accumulated more than 1.5 tonnes of low-enriched uranium, more than enough, if further enhanced, for one nuclear bomb. It is pressing ahead with tests of ballistic missiles that could one day convey a nuclear warhead. Western intelligence agencies, meanwhile, are now robustly rejecting a US intelligence assessment that Iran stopped work on warhead design back in 2003.

It was just two years ago that the US government issued an NIE that declared “with high confidence” that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, and now the other western intelligence services are robustly rejecting the 2007 conclusions. What’s up with that? Were the analysts wrong then, or wrong now, or wrong both times?

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