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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/06/AR2009050603415.html
Report: Foreign Analysts Cite Iran Bomb Progress
[AP/Washington Post] Desmond Butler - Congressional investigators say some foreign intelligence analysts believe U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran's progress toward designing a nuclear warhead before Tehran halted its program in 2003. The foreign analysts believe that Iran ended its work because it had made sufficient progress, not because of international pressure, as the 2007 U.S. national intelligence assessment concluded. The foreign analysts believe "intelligence indicates Iran had produced a suitable design, manufactured some components and conducted enough successful explosives tests to put the project on the shelf until it manufactured the fissile material required for several weapons," the report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says.