Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
April 9, 2007
MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. No statements, still waking up here, we can get right to your questions, whoever wants to start. This is such collegiality; I love to see this on a Monday morning, Monday afternoon.
QUESTION: Do you have anything to say about President Ahmadi-Nejad's comments this morning, where we stand with Iran?
April 9, 2007
Reza Aqazadeh said here Monday that projects for operation and installation of equipment are making rapid progress, touching a rate of well beyond 13 percent.
"With the entry into the stage of mass-production of centrifuges and the start of nuclear fuel production on an industrial scale and with several years of efforts and hopes bearing fruit,...
April 3, 2007
One year ago, I came to the International University to report on international efforts to convince Iran's leaders to give up their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The IAEA Board had just reported Iran's violations of Agency safeguards to the UN Security Council and required Iran's leaders to suspend activities of international concern.
I can report...
April 3, 2007
Vice-President and Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Gholam Reza Aqazadeh said here Tuesday that political topics and not technical issues have led to a delay in inauguration of Bushehr power plant.
Aqazadeh was speaking to reporters after inauguration of logistic units of Bushehr power plant. He said 92 percent of the plant...
April 2, 2007
. . . Dr. Rice, we look at this renewed emphasis on a diplomatic track and then we look at some of the changes that have taken place in the Administration, including on your own staff. And the question arises whether there has been a change in the philosophy that guides U.S. foreign policy or whether there has been perhaps a change in the...
March 30, 2007
Today, the Department of State designated Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 for engaging in activities that have materially contributed to the development of Iran's nuclear and missile programs. E.O. 13382 is an authority aimed at freezing the assets of proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD...
March 29, 2007
SEN. JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. (D-DE): The hearing will come to order.
March 29, 2007
I last appeared before this committee in September to discuss our strategy for addressing the challenges posed by Iran. At that time, Iran appeared to be riding high. The Iranian regime had spurned a historic offer to begin negotiations on its nuclear weapons ambitions with the U.S. and our P-5 partners. Instead, it proceeded openly and in...
March 29, 2007
In testimony before our Committee last September, Secretary Burns outlined the administration’s policy of supporting an international dialogue with Iran, while backing up that willingness to negotiate with the prospect of UN sanctions.
March 28, 2007
The cabinet assigned Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) to enforce a decision according to which the subsidiary undertakings to Non-Proliferation Treaty will no longer be valid.
The subsidiary undertaking had required Iran to acknowledge any decision about setting up of new plants to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the...