[Washington Post] Editorial - The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran contains some unambiguously good news: that Tehran halted a covert nuclear weapons program in 2003, and that it is responsive to the sort of international pressure applied by the U.S. and other Western governments. But there is bad news, too. While U.S. intelligence agencies have "high confidence" that covert work on a bomb was suspended "for at least several years" after 2003, there is only "moderate confidence" that Tehran has not restarted the military program. Iran's massive overt investment in uranium enrichment meanwhile proceeds in defiance of binding UN resolutions. "Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons," says the summary's second sentence.
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