Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
February 25, 2009
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QUESTION: Iranian official today announced that they have started carrying on the power plant in Bushehr. Any comment on that?
February 25, 2009
Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Reza Aqazadeh said here late Wednesday that there is no plan to make changes in nuclear activities in Natanz and the number of centrifuges will rise to 50,000.
Speaking at a joint press conference with the chief of the Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, he emphasized that Iran will...
February 19, 2009
Question: Does the United States have any comment with regard to the latest IAEA report on Iran?
Answer: We view this report as another opportunity lost to resolve international concerns. Absent Iranian compliance with its international nuclear obligations and transparency with the IAEA, the international community cannot have confidence in the...
February 19, 2009
On 19 November 2008, the Director General reported to the Board of Governors on the implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) (GOV/2008/59). This report covers relevant...
February 12, 2009
The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications. The crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided over whether and when we could hit bottom. Some even fear that the recession could further deepen and reach the level of the Great Depression. Of course...
February 11, 2009
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Question: How could Russia help the United States in its efforts to discontinue the Iranian nuclear program so that the US side would drop the development of a shield against the Iranian threat?
February 4, 2009
Washington - Top diplomats pledged continued unity in efforts to convince Iran to suspend its nuclear program and welcomed President Obama's willingness to engage with Tehran.
Representatives from the P5+1 - U.N. Security Council permanent members China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with Germany - met in...
February 1, 2009
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AMANPOUR: Mr. Foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki of Iran. The new U.S. administration of President Obama has basically already extended a hand and said that they want to try something new, dialogue, an engagement with Iran. Are you also ready to give this new administration a chance and to grab that extended hand?
February 1, 2009
As director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), did Mohamed ElBaradei soft-pedal Iran's nuclear ambitions to ensure that the Bush administration wouldn't attack that country? That's what many in the former administration, as well as nonproliferation experts of various political backgrounds, assert. Last week, at the World...
January 28, 2009
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QUESTION: On Afghanistan, it is believed in certain circumstances and (inaudible) so this was also the opinion of General Petraeus that to be effective, we should also engage Iran. What is your view about this and about the level of forces in Afghanistan, do you expect the members of NATO in Europe to do more in terms of manpower?...