Didnt the CIA report that Iran had stopped developing nuclear weapons?
The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities of November 2007 confirmed the existence of a covert Iranian program to develop nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them. The NIE was widely misinterpreted as claiming that Iran ended its nuclear weapons program. In fact, only one element nuclear warhead design was estimated to have been put on hold in 2003. As CIA director Michael Hayden has said of the NIE, “What came out in a lot of coverage was ‘Iran stops nuclear program.’ The only thing we claimed had been halted in ’03 was the weaponization. The development of fissile material, and the development of delivery systems continued. And one can make the case the development of delivery systems make no sense with just conventional warheads on top of them.
