” But that is not quite what Burgess said that day in an interview with the Voice of America. What Burgess actually said was that U.S. intelligence still believes Iran suspended work on nuclear weaponization in 2003 and hasn’t yet resumed it. “We have not seen indication that the government [of Iran] has made the decision to move ahead with the program,” he said. U.S. intelligence generally believes Iran suspended work in 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq for fear it would be used to justify a U.S. invasion of Iran, but that many in the Islamic Republic hope to resume weapons work eventually. Burgess also said, “The fact is, Iran is not dealing straight up.… They are engaged in use of words that is not moving this in a positive direction.”
