(Fox News) Benjamin Weinthal - The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an assessment last week that "Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device." However, David Albright, a physicist who is the founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, told Fox News that the agency applied an obsolete definition in making its assessment. "It is amazing that the U.S. intelligence community is still digging its heels in and using the defective, overly defensive 2007 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] framework." "By their own definition, Iran had a nuclear weapons program in 2007, but they didn't realize it and will never admit it now. There are other problems as well. The European definition is more comprehensive and typically includes buying the wherewithal to develop or make nuclear weapons components." A series of European intelligence reports from the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany point to Iran's regime actively building a nuclear weapons program.
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