We will "make United States pay", said the Iranian Government.
Saying "sorry" won't be enough. "America has lied about the Iranian nation". It "will have to pay the price" for its falsehood, said Ghulam Husain Elham of the Iran government.
Iran was reacting after CIA admitted that President Bush has been lying about Iran's peaceful nuclear program.
US intelligence services said Iran's nuclear program is for its enegry needs and not for making atomic bombs, as officials in Washington have been falsly claiming. The devestating CIA report was released on Monday December 3, 2007.
Mr Elham said that America had "tried to damage the reputation of the Iranian nation" with lies and illegal sanctions; and now US will "have to pay" for its wrong actions.
APN - Dec 4, 2007
mikec30
Actually I think you read the Beano version,
NY Times;
A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb.
The assessment, a National Intelligence Estimate that represents the consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, states that Tehran’s ultimate intentions about gaining a nuclear weapon remain unclear, but that Iran’s “decisions are guided by a cost-benefit approach rather than a rush to a weapon irrespective of the political, economic and military costs.
Instead, the N.I.E. concludes it is more likely Iran could have a bomb by the early part to the middle of the next decade. The report states that the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research judges Iran is unlikely to achieve this goal before 2013, “because of foreseeable technical and programmatic problems.”