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Iran welcomes US nuclear report BBC Iran has welcomed a major US intelligence report which suggests its government is not currently trying to develop nuclear weapons. The latest National Intelligence Estimate says it is now believed Iran stopped its weapons programme in 2003. Tehran has always maintained its nuclear programme is being developed purely for peaceful purposes. But the US and other Western powers say Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapons capability.
Iran is currently under UN Security Council and unilateral US sanctions. But the BBC News website's world affairs correspondent, Paul Reynolds, says the question of sanctions remains active because Iran is still defying Security Council calls for it to suspend uranium enrichment. The standoff is now likely to continue indefinitely but at a lower temperature, he says.
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