Think Progress, Media Matters Downplay Iranian Nuke Threat

Think Progress, Media Matters Downplay Iranian Nuke Threat

Part I: Groups Distort Iranian capabilities, intentions

Associated Press

BY: Adam Kredo

Recent reports by several left-leaning news outlets have downplayed new intelligence indicating Iran’s nuclear program is more dangerous than previously thought, according to nuclear specialists and former government officials.

“For political reasons, those denying Iranian ill-intent are never going to accept evidence that Iran seeks nuclear bomb technology,” said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser on Iran and Iraq who is now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

“Likewise,” he added, “some people will claim that the moon landing was done in a movie studio, or that 9/11 was an inside job — the only proof that will convince them is a mushroom cloud over Israel.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) disclosed new intelligence in a November report indicating that the Iranian regime continues to clandestinely enrich uranium and that unresolved questions surround its past nuclear weapons work. This, despite recent setbacks – including the assassination of several nuclear scientists and the Stuxnet computer virus, which wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear centrifuges – that were thought to have slowed the Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons.

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