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After Iran and its nuclear designs were Story of the Day Monday (text link) and Tuesday (text link), only NBC followed up, filing a pair of brief stand-ups from the White House and Iran. David Gregory put George Bush's policy defeat as politely as possible: he appears "to have been not backed by the reaction to this new intelligence." As a consequence the President is switching from talking about nuclear weapons to enriched uranium--which can be used both for electricity and for bombs: "That is the message that is also the thrust of the diplomacy now." Ali Arouzi relayed the mood in Teheran, where "in a fiery speech" President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the US National Intelligence Estimate "as a victory and a final shot to those who have spread lies." A state-sponsored newspaper is running a cartoon of Bush as Pinocchio.
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