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Bush: Iran remains a danger
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![A US intelligence fomdomg on Iran is in stark contrast to president Bush's rhetoric against Tehran [EPA]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/USA/1/2/3/4/Bush-Iran.jpg "A US intelligence fomdomg on Iran is in stark contrast to president Bush's rhetoric against Tehran [EPA]") | | A US intelligence fomdomg on Iran is in stark contrast to president Bush's rhetoric against Tehran [EPA] |
George Bush has insisted Iran remains a "danger to the world" and the US will keep "all options" against it open, despite a US intelligence report saying Tehran halted is nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
The US president told reporters at the White House on Tuesday: "I view this report as a warning signal that they had the programme, they halted the programme.
"What's to say they couldn't start another covert nuclear weapons programme?"
Bush was speaking a day after a consensus National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of all 16 US spy agencies said Iran stopped its nuclear arms work four years ago.
The finding was in stark contrast to Bush's rhetoric on Iran and also to an intelligence estimate two years ago when US agencies said they believed Tehran was continuing its weapons development programme. Bush added: "Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the know-how to make a nuclear weapon."
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