In other words, even if we accept the NIE’s claim that the programme was stopped in 2003, something that we have no reason to do, there is no evidence that it has not been resumed.
There is, in fact, quite a bit of evidence to the contrary.
As already noted, the uranium enrichment project has been resumed and continues at much faster pace.
•According to official estimates in Tehran, allocations for the nuclear programme have risen by almost 40 per cent.
•The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports that all of Iran’s known nuclear sites remain in full operation.
•The IAEA also reports that it has no access to a number of other industrial sites in Iran that may well be linked to the nuclear programme. In other words, we know what we don’t know but don’t know what we don’t know.
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