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US intelligence says Iran 10 years away from nuclear bomb: report

August 02, 2005, 09:48 gmt


Iranian nuclear neqotiator Ali Agha Mohammadi gives a press conference in Tehran
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran is some 10 years away from manufacturing highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear device, The Washington Post said quoting officials with access to a new intelligence review.

Iran is some 10 years away from manufacturing highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear device, The Washington Post said quoting officials with access to a new intelligence review.

Ordered by the National Intelligence Council in January, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran doubles the amount of time the White House believes Iran is away from building a nuclear weapon from five years in the previous estimate in 2001, the daily said.

The estimate, designed to alert the US president to national security developments, said there were credible indicators that Iran's military was conducting clandestine work, but nothing to indicate they were related to a nuclear weapons program, according to sources familiar with the report.
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