As Iran s nuclear program has developed, the Bush administration appeared to draw a red line: a nuclear weapons-capable Islamic Republic would be unacceptable. On August 8, 2004, for example, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told NBC News
Kamal Kharrazi, Iran's former foreign minister who now is a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader, finally acknowledged the obvious: Iran has sought the technical ability to build a nuclear bomb.