Don't forget that the president said Iran would be a target if they attained the knowledge to create a bomb. The NIE shows they do. This could be the president's line of reasoning during this morning's petulence conference.
Here's the president's World War III statement again:
"If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
This isn't over.