The National Intelligence Estimate released in December 2007 stating that Iran had halted efforts to  build nuclear weapons emerged following a multi-year internal battle between the White House and career civil servants in the intelligence sector, according to Jay Solomon and Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal.  The report has roiled the waters in U.S. policy towards Iran, which may still be able to produce nuclear weapons quickly even if present efforts have been curtailed.  Read Solomon and Gorman here.

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