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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/10/24/do2406.xml
Iran Will Be at the Top of the Next President's In-Tray
[Telegraph-UK] Con Coughlin - Iran has been enriching uranium at its facility at Natanz for 18 months, and at the present rate of progress, Iran should be able to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear warhead by next year. The body of available intelligence now contradicts last year's CIA National Intelligence Estimate, suggesting Iran had halted its military program in 2003. To paraphrase Michael Howard, the former Conservative leader: if the Bush Administration had known in 2003 what it knows now, both about Iran's involvement with nuclear proliferation and its support for Islamist terrorism, it might have preferred to make Iran its principal target in the war on terror, rather than Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Iran now poses a far greater threat than it did in 2003, when its nuclear program was nowhere near as advanced.