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A starkly contrasting picture emerges from Austria’s top intelligence agency, which has released a comprehensive 211-page report asserting that Iran actively pursues nuclear weapons capabilities—a claim that sharply diverges from US assessments. While the usual US intelligence posture maintains that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and has not restarted it, Austria’s findings allege the regime is engaged in “rearmament” with a well-advanced nuclear weapons development program supported by a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles.