Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
May 7, 2014
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a visiting Friends of the Israel Defense Forces delegation and said:
"Iran seeks to destroy the State of Israel and builds atomic bombs for that purpose. I want to reiterate Israel's position. We think that Iran must not have the capacity to make atomic bombs. Iran today has thousands of centrifuges,...
May 7, 2014
The international community has been acutely concerned for many years about Iran's increasing capacity to produce material for nuclear weapons. With sufficient fissile material and a warhead design, Iran could use its existing ballistic missiles to pose a credible nuclear threat throughout the region. Consequently, after repeatedly directing Iran...
May 5, 2014
MS. HARF: Tomorrow, the 6th and 7th, at the technical level, as part of our ongoing discussions on the sidelines of the NPT meeting that’s taking place in New York. And then next week, we will go for the fourth round of comprehensive talks in Vienna at the political director level with Cathy Ashton, Foreign Minister Zarif, and all of us.
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May 1, 2014
The United States and our E3+3 partners are engaged in a process aimed at peacefully resolving one of the most serious challenges to the integrity and credibility of the global nonproliferation regime: Iran’s nuclear program. The E3+3 and Iran have been meeting intensively since February to discuss all of the issues that must be resolved as part...
April 29, 2014
QUESTION: BBC Persian, Bahman Kalbasi here. If you don’t mind just – possible to elaborate on where the fault lines really are right now versus – West versus the non-alliance movement, on the Additional Protocol? How much is that a problem, and especially vis-a-vis Iran? And where is the relationship between – how do these negotiations of P5+1...
April 29, 2014
Li Fangwei, who is more commonly known by his alias “Karl Lee,” is charged with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by using United States-based financial institutions to engage in millions of dollars of U.S. dollar transactions in violation of economic sanctions that prohibited such financial transactions. In...
April 22, 2014
Most experts agree that the multilateral sanctions imposed on Iran since 2010 have contributed significantly to producing flexibility in Iran's position on the scope of its nuclear program. There is similar agreement that the effect of sanctions on Iran's foreign policy—particularly on its core interests in the Middle East region—and on its human...
April 17, 2014
1. As foreshadowed in GOV/2014/2, this report provides information on the status of the Islamic Republic of Iran's (Iran's) nuclear programme in relation to the "voluntary measures" that Iran has agreed to undertake as part of the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) agreed between the E3+3 and Iran on 24 November 2013. According to the...
April 16, 2014
Congress has at times expressed concern regarding ballistic missile and nuclear programs in Iran, North Korea, and Syria. This report focuses primarily on unclassified and declassified U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) assessments over the past two decades. These assessments indicate that there is no evidence that Iran and North Korea have engaged...
April 16, 2014
Whereas:(1) On 23 March 2012, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 267/2012.(2) By its judgment of 12 November 2013 in Case T-552/12, the General Court of the European Union annulled Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 945/2012 insofar as it included North Drilling Company (NDC) in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive...