Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
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 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
QUESTION - What are the prospects for a solution to the Iranian problems? Do you think a compromise solution is possible?
LE PRESIDENT - First of all there's one fact. Iran has for a number of years pursued a questionable program regarding nuclear technology. Iran says it's a civilian program. We continue to have doubts about the end use of this...
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 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?
September 18, 2006
Vice President and Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh delivered a speech at the IAEA 50th Annual General Conference (September 18-22) at the Austria Center in Vienna on Monday morning.
Assurance on supply of nuclear fuel and Non-proliferation are high on the agenda of the conference.
The conference opened this morning...