On Monday's edition of the NewsHour (1/28/13), host Gwen Ifill referred to concerns about the "threat posed by Iran's nuclear program," and told viewers at the end of a Margaret Warner report that "Margaret's next story looks at the debate in Israel over how to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran."
And on last night's broadcast (1/30/13 ), Warner explained that countries like the U.S., Israel and Turkey "are concerned about Iran's nuclear weapons program."
To reiterate an obvious point: There is no proof of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. There are allegations that Iranian's enrichment of uranium for its nuclear power program is hiding a military component, but weapons inspectors have not uncovered any such diversion.
The NewsHour has made this mistake before, as FAIR noted in a recent action alert:
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