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The article presents information about the U.S. allegation that Iran is supplying lethal technology to militias in Iraq. The national security advisors to President George W. Bush including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have decided to delay the publication of evidence about Iran's technology transfer. The delay order has made way to doubts about the quality and authenticity of the evidence.

Analyzes the motivation behind U.S. President George W. Bush's recent shift in dealing with Iran's nuclear program. Bush's goal of rewriting the main treaty governing the spread of nuclear technology, without actually renegotiating it; How Bush has convinced European allies that Iran must give up its right to enrich uranium to produce electric power; Suggestion that Bush's argument amounts to a reinterpretation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Background on the treaty, whose intellectual roots date back to the Eisenhower administration; Administration's effort to close loopholes in the treaty letting Iran and others enrich uranium; Why Bush has not called for renegotiating the treaty; Analysis of the treaty; Agreement between Bush and the director general of the IAEA, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, that established nuclear nations should supply fuel to countries that need it.

Focuses on the U.S. and the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. How lines have blurred as nuclear technology has spread; Suggestion that the President George W. Bush administration has sent conflicting signals about what it will do if diplomacy fails to disarm Iran and North Korea; Reference to Israel, India and Pakistan and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Comments of analysts; Question of how far the Europeans are willing to let the Iranians go in developing a civilian nuclear capability that could be converted to military use; Outlook.