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he Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) stated that he believed Iran was still pursuing a nuclear bomb, even though the U.S. intelligence community, including his own agency, reached a consensus judgment last year that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons work in 2003. Speaking to the NBC, Michael Hayden added that his conviction “stemmed largely from Iran's willingness to endure international sanctions rather than comply with demands for nuclear inspections and abandon its efforts to develop technologies that can produce fissile material.”1
In other developments, Iran began installing advanced centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment facility. It is widely known that Iran had launched a programme for industrial scale enrichment last year by installing 3,000 centrifuges at the facility. Recently, Iran has assembled more than 300 centrifuges divided into two cascades to expand beyond 3,000 centrifuges.2
- 1. Greg Miller, “CIA chief asserts Iran nuclear threat,” Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2008, at
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fg-hayden31mar31... - 2. Mark Heinrich, “Iran installs advanced nuclear centrifuges,” Reuters, April 4, 2008, at http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32837720080403http://i...