The NIE tells us how to engage IranWhat the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear ambitions truly indicates is that President Bush's loose talk about "World War III" is decidedly premature. If anybody's going to launch a war against Iran before the end of the Bush administration, it will be Israel -- not the United States.
Despite the NIE's findings, it's clear that Iran's reach for the bomb is both real and calculated. That it is real is proven by two facts: 1) Tehran's aggressive development of a uranium-enrichment process that's unnecessary given its arrangements with partner Russia; and 2) its ongoing construction of a heavy-water research facility that's likewise unwarranted for civilian nuclear power.
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