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Originally Posted by Ainoow
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Your first link is from 2001.
The other links do not directly link the lack of intelligence about the Iran nuclear program to a lack in Farsi-speaking analysts.
Thanks to the previous administration's major cuts in the intelligence community, combined with the 9/11 attacks, our intelligence community was lacking. There is still room for growth in Farsi, and other midle eastern language speakers, but great strides have been made in that direction.