[DuncanWaring]

...the report provided late last month ... Iranian scientists ...will possess all necessary technology, equipment and fissile material to deploy nuclear weapons no later than the end of next year, "perhaps sooner."

Is this "end of next year" referenced to the described report, which would have been published in 2008, making "next year" 2009, or is it the "end of next year" referenced to the publication of this column and thus 2010?

[jazusamo]

I don’t know but it sounds like the end of 2009 or sooner to me.