Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
September 19, 2006
In the aftermath of a turbulent summer in the Middle East, the centrality of the challenge posed by Iran is ever more apparent. Offered a historic opportunity to reintegrate into the international community, Iran’s leadership is continuing along a path of confrontation and isolation by refusing to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Iran...
September 19, 2006
The Preventive Defense Project conducted the latest in its series of Washington WMD Workshops entitled “Iran Plan B Design” on May 22, 2006. The purpose of the Workshop was to collect the best thinking on the design of a plan for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program should diplomacy fail and the Iranians continue on the path to nuclear capability...
September 19, 2006
Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thank you for the opportunity to address you on what is probably the most vexing and complicated diplomatic challenge that the United States currently confronts. The stakes could hardly be higher. If the United States fails to achieve a diplomatic outcome that provides...
September 19, 2006
The United States has a clear interest in preventing such an Iranian capability. Iran has been a de-stabilizing force in the Middle East. As former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in the Washington Post last week: “Everything returns to the challenge of Iran. It trains, finances and equips Hezbollah, the state within a state in Lebanon....
September 19, 2006
As the cycle of negotiations and United Nations conclaves begins, Iran’s nuclear ambitions seem to be surging without restraint—no longer subject to easy diplomatic mediation or coercive resolution. A unique confluence of events ensures that Iran will sustain a nuclear program increasingly perceived as a national imperative. Today,...
September 19, 2006
SEN. RICHARD G. LUGAR (R-IN): This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is called to order. The committee meets today to examine the United States' policy toward Iran, with particular focus on our response to Iran's continued pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability.
The United States has a clear interest in preventing such an Iranian...
September 19, 2006
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24. The EU commends the Director General and the Secretariat for their continuing efforts to seek clarifications from Iran and to verify its nuclear programme. EU takes a serious view of the Director General's assessment that, after nearly four years of intense inspections, the Agency remains unable to make further progress in its efforts to...
September 18, 2006
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Q: Let's turn to Iran. How optimistic are you about achieving a solution to the nuclear issue?
A: After three years' negotiations on Iran you learn to keep your expectations low. The only route to a solution has to be via diplomacy, and the prospects for success are at their highest prior to the initiation of a UN Security Council procedure...
September 18, 2006
Government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham on Monday rejected reports Iran could agree to short-term enrichment suspension for resumption of talks on the nuclear issue, saying they arose from a "misunderstanding." Government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham was speaking to domestic and foreign reporters at his weekly press conference.
"Iran has made...
September 18, 2006
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Q: -- is the President going to talk to Iran tomorrow, and to what extent -- what do you hope is going to come out of the week in terms of progress in terms of diplomacy on Iraq?