January 08, 2008
TheAustralian
ISRAEL'S dire intelligence assessment of Iran's nuclear intentions will be delivered to US President George W. Bush during his three-day visit which begins tomorrow, but it will not entirely refute an American intelligence finding that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Jerusalem has claimed that the US finding - which took the wind out of proposals for military action against Iran's nuclear facilities and weakened international support for sanctions against Tehran - was misleading since Iran continues to lay the basis for a weapons program by enriching uranium.
Senior Israeli ministers have voiced suspicions Iran had secretly resumed its weapons manufacturing program.
But, at a weekend meeting of government and intelligence officials in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office, it emerged Israel had no tangible evidence to this effect that it could show Mr Bush...
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