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Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said in a brief interview last week that the delay in the completion of the NIE “has to do with the information coming in and the pace of developments.”

Some of the most significant new material has come from informants, including scientists and others with access to Iran’s military programs, who are motivated by antipathy toward the government and its suppression of the opposition movement after a disputed presidential election in June, according to current and former officials in the United States and Europe who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence gains.

“There is a wealth of information-sharing going on, and it reflects enormous discontent among Iranian technocrats,” said a former U.S. government official who until recently was privy to classified reports about intelligence-gathering inside Iran. He said that among senior technocrats in the nuclear program and other fields, “the morale is very low.”