At the Aspen Security Forum, William Burns said on Wednesday that “our best intelligence judgment is that the Iranians have not resumed the weaponization effort that they had underway up until 2004 and then suspended, so that’s something, obviously we at CIA and across the US intelligence community keep a very, very sharp focus on.”
Burns’s statement is consistent with similar statements he has made since beginning his tenure as the director of the CIA, notably saying last December that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapons program, in response to allegations at the time made by head of the Israeli Mossad, David Barnea.
Burns’s statement will help to pour cold water on those forces allied to Global Britain who would like to use the fear of Iran gaining nuclear weapons as the pretext for crushing Iran—most likely through war, given that sanctions don’t appear to be working all that well lately. However, with Iran’s increasing integration into the emerging new system centered in Eurasia— Iran potentially joining the BRICS and the SCO, and in light of the strategic partnership with Russia following Putin’s trip to Iran—British-directed provocations towards Iran will look increasingly impotent.
