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Israel's Mossad spy agency estimates Iran will develop a nuclear weapon within three years and continue to provide rockets to regional armed groups, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Dagan's estimate of Iran's nuclear ambitions differs sharply from an assessment by the US intelligence community late last year that said Iran had mothballed its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1
The estimate really doesn't "differ sharply" from the US estimate, but it does differ sharply from the media spin on the US estimate.
The actual NIE assessed "with moderate confidence Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007, but we do not know
whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons."
It then went on to say "We judge with moderate confidence Iran probably would be technically capable of producing enough HEU for a weapon sometime during the 2010-2015 time frame." Which of course was the exact same timetable given in the earlier estimate from 2005.
Mossad is now saying 2011.