Nie Iran Report

Dick Cheney: Ahmadinejad Won't Respond To Nuclear Deterrence

Washington Post | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics


Vice President Cheney went on right-wing talk radio yesterday with a dramatic new argument for preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, casting t...

Iran Nuclear Program Debated With New Evidence Of Centrifuge Testing

NY Times | DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Iran has reportedly begun to deploy a new generation of machinery to produce nuclear fuel, a development bound to intensify a debate in Washington abo...

Bush Tells Israelis He Doesn't Believe Iran NIE Report

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administr...

UN Nuclear Chief Arrives In Iran

Associated Press | Nasser Karimi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog began a two-day visit early Friday to discuss Iranian compliance with international demands over the country's n...

Iranian TV Airs Video Of US-Iran Naval Encounter In Persian Gulf

AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was no confrontation between...

Video Recordings Show Iran-US Clash In Persian Gulf

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around massive U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a man speaking heavily accented English threatened, "I am comin...

U.S. Describes Confrontation With Iranian Boats

NY Times | THOM SHANKER and BRIAN KNOWLTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Five armed Iranian speedboats approached three United States Navy warships in international waters in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, then m...

Pentagon Says Iran Harassed US Ships

Associated Press | Pauline Jelinek | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In what is being called a serious provocation, Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait o...

U.S. Wants Iran To "Confess" To Past Nuke Program

Associated Press | George Jahn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Iran must "confess" to running a past nuclear weapons program or its claims of cooperating with a U.N. investigation will not be credible, the chief U...

Israel: US Report On Iran Nukes Could Ignite War

AP | LAURIE COPANS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Israel's public security minister warned Saturday that a U.S. intelligence report that said Iran is no longer developing nuclear arms could lead to a ...

Giuliani: Iraq War Led Iran To Abandon Weapons Program

Political Radar | Jan Simmonds | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Speaking to thousands of supporters through an internet webcast Thursday evening, Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., warned that Iran remained a "substantial thre...

GOP Senators Call For Inquiry Into Iran National Intelligence Estimate

Washington Post | Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Ira...

Huckabee's NIE Defense: Bush "Had It For Four Years," Didn't Read It

National Journal | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Mike Huckabee in Greensboro, N.C. tonight tried to respond to concerns about his lack of familiarity with the National Intelligence Estimate. Digging ...

CNN Forced To Scrap Doc "Iran Goes Nuclear"

Variety | Brian Lowry | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The latest National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program four years ago has claimed one casualty: CNN h...

The CIA "War" on Bush: The New Neocon Ploy

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Marc Cooper

Who knew? Forget about the War On Terrorism. Now it's all about the CIA "war" on the Bush administration. If we don't have the Iranian Mullahs to kick around anymore, let's blame it all on the Boys from Langley.

Democrats Hit Bush's Credibility With New Iran Report

The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Congressional Democrats are capitalizing on the latest intelligence estimate on Iran's nuclear weapons development to question President Bush's credib...

Rudy Releases New Campaign Ad Focusing On Iran

New York Times | Lisa Tozzi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Just two days after the release of a National Intelligence Report that has made Iran the flashpoint of debate in the presidential race, the Giuliani c...

Bush Tells Iran To "Come Clean" On Nuclear Activities

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


President Bush, trying to keep pressure on Iran, called on Tehran Wednesday to "come clean" about the scope of its nuclear activities or else face di...

Sorry, Guys. WWIII Gets Cancelled

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Marc Cooper

As news over the Iran intelligence estimate seeps in, never have so many been so disappointed so much over the prospects of avoiding war. Just when we're all revved up for WWIII, it goes and gets cancelled.

Neocons Attack U.S. Iran Report As "Intelligence Scam"

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The National Intelligence Estimate released on Monday resounded with the authority of 16 American spy agencies in agreement that Iran halted its nucle...

Press Briefing: Bush Learned Of NIE Iran Findings 'In The Last Few Months,' But Continued Rhetoric

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


This afternoon, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley held a press briefing on the new National Intelligence Estimate, which concludes that Iran st...

Will Thomas

Cheney On His Iran Rhetoric: "I Did It Once, I'll Do It Again"

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Now that the new National Intelligence Estimate suggests Iran shelved its nuclear weapons program in 2003, will the White House be moving away from it...