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Bashar al-Assad May 19, 2013 interview with Clarin newspaper and Telam news agency
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"Are (the Iranians) trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
"I often get asked when Israel might attack Iran. I say, 'Two years ago.'"
"Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, agrees with the American intelligence assessments" (that Iran is not now pursuing a nuclear weapon.)
"Once you convince the public there are demons, you have the license to bomb their people."
"We do not know…if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons." US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Jan. 31, 2012
American officials say there is not hard and clear evidence that Iran has resumed work on the military components necessary to build a bomb.
“I can’t tell you [the Iranians are] in fact pursuing a weapon because that’s not what intelligence says.” Former US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Feb. 3, 2013
…some Canadian military officers in private jokingly referred to the NATO jets bombing Gadhafi’s troops as “al-Qaeda’s air force”
Concerning the charge that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon: “It isn’t the absence of evidence, it’s the evidence of an absence,” said one former intelligence official… “Certain things are not being done.”
Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report…that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb
How could I possibly explain using the military to destroy the nuclear facilities of a country the intelligence community said had no active nuclear weapons program?—George W. Bush
Iran appears to be keeping its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium — which could be converted to bomb fuel in weeks or months — to a level below the amount necessary to build a single weapon.
Iran…has no atomic bombs in its military arsenal, nor the ability to deliver them, say U.S. and United Nations experts.(The Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2013)
The Obama administration, in advanced negotiations on nuclear-cooperation agreements with Jordan and Vietnam, has withdrawn a demand that these countries forgo their rights to produce nuclear fuel, senior U.S. officials said.
The tightening of U.S. banking sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program [is]…increasingly hitting vulnerable medical patients as deliveries of medicine and raw materials for Iranian pharmaceutical companies are either stopped or delayed.
United States intelligence officials have said they have no evidence that Iran’s top leaders have decided to take the final steps toward a weapon.
US director of national intelligence James Clapper says there's no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. CIA Director David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey agree.
US Senator Lindsey Graham: “Do you have doubt about the Iranians’ intention when it comes to making a nuclear weapon?” Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper: "I do."

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