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New US spy report verifies Iran stance

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US International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Glyn Davies at the Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, September 7. US spy agencies have recently concluded that Iran has deliberately not taken the critical steps to make a bomb, despite having produced enough nuclear fuel. American intelligence agencies reached the conclusion in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) update they presented to US President Barack Obama in recent months, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The original 140-page NIE report, which was given to former president George W. Bush in 2007, had clarified that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon program at the time. The new intelligence information collected by the Obama administration once again confirmed the original reports' findings by asserting that there was no convincing evidence to prove Iran's nuclear work was in any way military. Despite unwavering efforts by some US and Israeli officials to prove that Iran is seeking an atomic w...