Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
April 1, 2014
In response to Iraq's use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War, Iran developed a modest CW capability and often warned that it would retaliate in kind. Whether it did so remains unclear.
The history of Iran's chemical weapons program, however, offers a number of important insights into how the regime thinks about the development and use...
March 31, 2014
This Perspective begins by positing that a final nuclear agreement is reached between the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) and Iran and then examines the potential responses of two of the most important U.S. partners in the region: Israel and Saudi Arabia. The authors argue that because each partner's...
March 31, 2014
In June 2013, two key factors created conditions more favorable for resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis–the devastating impact on Iran's economy of international sanctions, especially oil and banking sanctions, and the election as president of pragmatic regime insider Hassan Rouhani, who views an agreement on the nuclear issue as a crucial means...
March 20, 2014
1. As foreshadowed in the Director General's report on the Monitoring and Verification in the Islamic Republic of Iran in relation to the Joint Plan of Action (GOV/2014/2), the purpose of this report is to provide information on the status of the Islamic Republic of Iran's (Iran's) nuclear programme in relation to the "voluntary measures" that...
March 20, 2014
Thank you, Madam President, and thank you, Ambassador Quinlan, for your briefing and for your able leadership of this Committee.Ambassador, your work on this issue has particular value at this time. Today I’d like to touch on three reasons why. The first relates to the ongoing P5+1 talks. Second, to troubling signs of sanctions violations. And the...
March 20, 2014
The Committee twice reached out to Iran last year in relation to incidents investigated by the Panel of Experts: we wrote on 12 April 2013 in relation to the Panel's unanimous conclusion that Iran's launches of the Shahab 1 and 3 missiles during the Great Prophet 7 exercises contravened paragraph 9 of resolution 1929 (2010); and on 21 May 2013 in...
March 19, 2014
Good afternoon, everyone. We at the [title redacted] level dove more deeply and at more detailed level into the substance of key issues more than we have ever previously. If the last round set the agenda and framework for the comprehensive negotiations, in this round we were able to build on the great work our experts have been doing and really...
March 19, 2014
The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif made today the following statement:"Minister Zarif and I, together with the Political Directors of China, France, Germany, Russia, the United KIngdom and the United States, just finished a second...
March 18, 2014
Strict sanctions on Iran–sanctions that primarily target Iran's key energy sector and its access to the international financial system–harmed Iran's economy to the point where Iran's leaders, on November 24, 2013, accepted an interim agreement ("Joint Plan of Action," JPA) that halts expansion of Iran's nuclear program in exchange for temporary...
March 14, 2014
MODERATOR: Thank you so much. And welcome, everyone, to the call. I really appreciate everyone’s flexibility in doing this a little earlier than we normally do it. And in a moment, I’ll turn it over to [Senior Administration Official]. From this point on, we will all be referred to as Senior Administration Officials. This entire call is on...