Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
April 24, 2008
When President Geroge W. Bush assumed office in 2001, Iran was not a nuclear power state. However, when he leaves office next January, Iran will either have acquired the status or be on the verge of having done so. Listen to its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and you hear that Iran has 3000 operationg centrifuges and is now installing an...
April 24, 2008
I am hopeful that the recent participation by both the US and Iran in international discussions to address stability and security in Iraq represents a positive step towards a thawing in the tensions between our countries. However, the United States should be willing to negotiate directly with Iran. Success in diffusing the threat Iran poses...
April 24, 2008
My remarks will focus primarily on the issue of Iran's nuclear program. Accordingly, I will begin with a brief description of the status of the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear activities and then examine current U.S. policy. I conclude that this policy is failing and unlikely to succeed in the near to intermediate term. I think look at various...
April 24, 2008
CARPER: Subcommittee will come to order.
Welcome, Senator Specter. And very soon we'll be joined by Senator Feinstein and a number of my colleagues. I want to thank you for joining us today, and our other witnesses who will be coming in the moments ahead.
April 22, 2008
Based on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions 1737 (2006) and 1747 (2007), the Government of Japan has implemented such measures as freezing the assets of a total of 23 entities and 27 persons that were designated in the annex to those resolutions as related to Iran's proliferation of sensitive nuclear activities and development of...
April 17, 2008
PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you all. Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to the Rose Garden. Glad you're here. It's a beautiful day. I'm -- been a pleasure to welcome a good friend to the Oval Office, and had a good discussion.
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Spent some time on Iran. Our position is clear that we're going to work together, along with other nations, to make it abundantly...
April 17, 2008
Iran presents a profound threat to U.S. national security interests. The radical regime in Tehran threatens regional and international security through its pursuit of technologies that could give it the capability to produce nuclear weapons, its support for terrorist groups and militants in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian...
April 17, 2008
Iran poses significant threats to the international community. Chief among them is the regime's continued pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions. Another paramount threat is Iran’s provision of financial and material support to terrorist groups. The combination of these two...
April 17, 2008
REP. ACKERMAN: Within the next two years there is a real possibility that Iran will have the means to make an atomic bomb. Let me say that again. Within the next two years, there is a real possibility that Iran will have the means to make an atomic bomb.
The reason for this awful truth is that they wanted it more than we wanted to stop them. They...
April 11, 2008
SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon, or almost afternoon. Allow me to welcome warmly here to the State Department my colleague, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Germany. Frank has become not only my great colleague, but my good friend. And we are often together, as we were just in Bucharest. We always have...