Iran's nuclear program is civilian and peaceful Position #32326

CNN's Christiane Amanpour gets an exclusive interview with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili:

Source: CNN

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IssueIran
IssueWhat does Iran want?
IssueDoes Iran want to acquire nuclear weapons?
PositionIran's nuclear program is civilian and peaceful
ComponentHard for either side to prove this beyond doubt
SupportiveArgumentAim is only for enrichment
SupportiveArgumentAyatollah Khomeini was against nuclear weapons
SupportiveArgumentKoran is against nuclear weapons
OpposingArgumentDevelopment of secret Qom nuclear facility raises doubts
OpposingArgumentNuclear facilities in a crisis region pose risks to civilians / peace
InconsistencyIran working on 4-year plan to test a neutron initiator
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U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb

Author: James Risen, Mark Mazzetti - New York Times
Cited by: David Price 5:15 PM Tuesday 28 February 2012 GMT
Also cited at: 150388
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WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday 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.

Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies.
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