"The biggest bombshell is that the intelligence community judges "with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program." It also assesses, with "moderate confidence," that the earliest possible date Iran could have the requisite nuclear material for one nuclear weapon is late 2009, and even that is unlikely. The NIE also suggests that there is only a political solution to the present nuclear standoff."
Well pardners, it should come as no surprise that the Iranian's are beside theyselves with glee over this national whimper....
Iran says U.S. report a "declaration of surrender"
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Sunday the publication of a U.S. intelligence report saying Iran had halted a nuclear weapons program 
in 2003 amounted to a "declaration of surrender" by Washington in its row with Tehran.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also dismissed in an interview with state television the prospect of new U.N. sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive atomic
work.
"It is too far-fetched," he said when asked whether he expected the U.N. Security Council to impose fresh sanctions on Iran following two such resolutions since last December.
Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West, told a rally earlier this month that the December 3 publication of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate was a "victory" for Iran.
He said on Sunday: "It was in fact a declaration of surrender ... It was a positive action by the U.S. administration to change their attitude and it was a correct move."
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