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IRAN: U.S. intelligence report on Iran backfires

By Paul Richterwriter 
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Bush administration officials are beginning to say that the new intelligence report on Iran, which said Iran had halted its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, has been a setback to U.S. policy.

Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in a speech Thursday in San Diego that the report was ‘a goal against ourselves.’

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— Paul Richter in Washington

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Paul Richter

Paul Richter covered the State Department and foreign policy for the Los Angeles Times out of its Washington, D.C., bureau. He previously covered the Pentagon, the White House and, from New York City, the financial industry. He was raised in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., and graduated from Clark University. He left The Times in 2015.

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