With New Data, U.S. Revises Its View of Iran

“WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — How could American intelligence agencies have overstated Iran’s intentions in 2005 so soon after being reprimanded for making similar errors involving Iraq?

The spy agencies had swallowed hard and pledged to do better after a presidential commission in March 2005 issued a blistering accounting of the intelligence failures leading to the Iraq war.

But a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that was issued two months later said Iran’s leaders were working tirelessly to acquire a nuclear weapon — a finding that, like the prewar intelligence on Iraq, has now been acknowledged to have been wrong

in one of its chief conclusions.

New York Times , Dec. 5

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/washington/05intel.html

American intelligence agencies surprised the world on Monday, Dec. 3, declaring they have come to new conclusions about iran’s nuclear programs, something in sharp contrast to what they had reported previously in May, 2005. Nearly 2 years ago they claimed that the Iranian government was pursuing a nuclear weapon program. Backed by such reports and estimates, President Bush increased pressure on Iran to end the enrichment process and to forget about the nuclear energy programs forever.america’s European allies were also pressed to support the sanctions against Iran that were suggested by America in the UN every now and then. China and Russia despite their reluctance in some cases could not resist the American hegemony over this issue.

By presenting Iran as a general threat to world, US President was recently speaking of the possibility of a Third World War. So how and why does this happens overnight? It is said that these agencies came to this conclusion one year ago so why to wait this long to reveal it. They even rejected the recent IAEA report about iran’s nuclear program that by emphasized on the peacefulness of it admitted that no evidence was found to prove iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Despite all the uncertainties about intentions behind this report and its being brought into public attention now, one thing is clear: they did not do it for iran’s good, and that their pressure on Iran would not stop. Although the report states that Iran is not after nuclear weapons but it does not exonerate Iran completely. They say Iran has ceased its attempts to reach nuclear weapon in 2003 and is now doing the enrichment process only for peaceful intentions. But they also say that because once Iran had that non-peaceful intentions so there is a possibility of it happening in the future. They want to make the world believe that if America had not pressed Iran this much, Iranians would have made nuclear weapons by now. In this way American officials are actually justifying their actions and not simply excusing Iran