U.S. intel report clears Iran nuclear program

The latest report by the U.S. intelligence community clearly proves that Iran’s nuclear program is completely peaceful, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said in a statement here on Tuesday.

“This report proves many facts, the most important being that the statements of (U.S. President George W.) Bush and other United States officials, who always speak of the serious danger of Iran’s nuclear program, are fabricated and unreliable,” Hosseini noted.

In a report released on Monday, U.S. intelligence agencies said Iran currently has no nuclear weapons program and probably can’t produce enough uranium for a bomb until 2010 at the earliest.

The report said that U.S. allegations about Iran’s nuclear objectives have been exaggerated for at least two years, AFP reported.

The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), the consensus view of all 16 U.S. spy agencies, said that Iran appeared “less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.”

“But we do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons,” cautioned declassified findings of the estimate, which starkly contradicted the U.S. spy agencies’ 2005 conclusions.

The fact that in 2005 their report stated Iran was determined to produce nuclear weapons but in 2007 they confidently rejected the previous conclusion clearly proves the unrealistic and biased nature of the reports by the U.S. intelligence agencies, Hosseini said. 

Iran’s actions and the reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency all show that the country’s nuclear program has not deviated and that the previous U.S. reports claiming Iran intended to manufacture nuclear weapons were totally baseless, he asserted.

Reports and unjust pressure can not deceive the world about the realities of the matter and the documentation of dozens of IAEA technical and legal reports, the Foreign Ministry spokesman added.

The report provides evidence that the decision to send Iran’s nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council was an unlawful act because, according to the findings of the U.S. intelligence agencies, the country did not have any military nuclear programs when the issue was referred to the Security Council in 2006, he stated.

This report also sends a message to the United States’ European allies, he said, adding, “They should revise their unrealistic policies” and adopt just and logical approaches.