Iran’s Continuing Nuclear Program #
February 2nd, 2008 | In Worth Reading
The Economist begins its critical look at the status of Iran and the nuclear issue by strongly criticizing America’s intelligence officials. The whole piece is, as that opening hints, still (rightly) concerned about the prospects of a nuclear Iran.
IF YOU are locked eyeball to eyeball with an adversary as wily as Iran, it does not make much sense to do something that emboldens your opponent and sows defeatism among your friends. But that, it is now clear, is precisely what America’s spies achieved when they said in December that, contrary to their own previous assessments, Iran stopped its secret nuclear-weapons programme in 2003.