For decades U.S. officials have warned that Iran was “close” to a nuclear weapon — from warnings in the 1990s about future capabilities to repeated claims in recent years that Tehran could quickly produce bomb-grade material if it chose to. Yet international inspectors and many analysts have consistently noted Iran hasn’t actually built a bomb, even as enriched uranium levels rise and diplomacy repeatedly stalls.

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