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Bush Says Report Doesn't Alter His Views on Iran

By Don Gonyea

Published December 4, 2007 at 1:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

At a White House news conference Tuesday, President Bush faced questions about a new national intelligence report that says Iran halted its program to develop nuclear weapons in 2003.

The report contradicts what the president has been saying about Iran in recent months.

Bush says Iran is still dangerous and said the report doesn't change anything about his opinions on the country.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.