White House Is Confident of Broad Support on Iran

"WASHINGTON — A week after American intelligence agencies reported that Iran halted work on a covert nuclear weapons program in 2003, the Bush administration expressed confidence on Tuesday that it had rallied international support to intensify diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran’s government.

““We believe Iran had a secret military weapons program,” Mr. Bush said at the White House. “And Iran must explain to the world why they had a program.””

                                                            NEW YORK TIMES, December 12, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/washington/12prexy.html?ref=world

The surprising news that was released recently, the National Intelligence estimate, is now taking new forms to itself. Little by little more light is being casted on its dark angles and ambiguous parts that have raised many questions so far. It was really strange why America that had been for a long time accusing Iran of pursuing nuclear weapon program, had just disclosed a document reporting that Iran had ceased its attempts to reach nuclear weapons since 2003.

American officials, now in their recent speeches, are explaining the intentions behind this action. They did not want it to result in such an implication. They actually wanted the other part of the estimate to become the focus of attentions. They wanted those who hear the report to think to themselves:” so America was right in saying that Iran had vicious intentions!”But the opposite came true because many people were saying:” so Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapon program now. So, America was wrong!” that’s why this time American officials were those who were surprised! Now they are compensating for it by giving explanation about what they meant by that report to their European allies. They want to show the situation completely in favor of them saying that they surely would succeed in imposing the third round of sanctions on Iran. But I think it is more a propaganda than a reality. this time European countries would be less willing to support America in this issue because people of the world unfortunately(!) have got the wrong implication and don’t trust America , at least on its claims against Iran’s nuclear program , for soon. But is this all there is? Passage of the time will answer this question.