Is Iran actively trying to develop nuclear weapons? Members of the Obama Administration often talk as whether this were a foregone conclusion,as did their predecessors under George W. Bush. There is a large body of evidence, however, and including some of America’s most highly classified intelligence assessments,suggesting that the United States could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq eight years ago––allowing anxieties about the policies of a tyrannical regime to distort our estimations of the state’s military capacities and intentions. The two most recent National Intelligence Estimates (N.
I.
E.s) on Iranian nuclear progress, representing the best judgment of the senior officers from all the major American intelligence agencies, and possess stated that there is no conclusive evidence that Iran has made any effort to build the bomb since 2003.
Source: newyorker.com