Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
March 8, 2006
I am grateful for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the steps the United States might take next to deal with Iran’s nuclear violations.
March 8, 2006
As Secretary Rice reported to this Committee two weeks ago, our policy toward Iran is clear and focused.
March 8, 2006
For the past several years, two compelling and equally haunting narratives have dominated thinking about the endgame of the Iranian nuclear crisis. As with the Cuban missile crisis, both options seem fraught with peril.
March 8, 2006
Should Iran’s clerical regime acquire nuclear weapons, as is its evident aim, it would be able to foment mischief in its region or beyond without fear of regime-threatening retaliation – other than from another nuclear power. In a suicidal mood, it could well lash out at Israel, Europe, or at American forces in the region. Inevitably,...
March 8, 2006
Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Committee, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss what Iran is doing to acquire a nuclear weapons capability and what we are doing to counter this emerging threat. I start from the premise that a nuclear-armed Iran is intolerable. Let me outline some of the key...
March 8, 2006
Future historians will be baffled at the intensity and tenacity with which successive American administrations have refused to deal seriously with the obvious and explicit threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the first hours of the fanatical regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, Iran declared war on us in language it seems...
March 8, 2006
Agenda Item 5 (b)
Report by the Director General on the Implementation of Safeguards in the Islamic Republic of IranU.S. Statement as delivered by Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte
Mr. Chair,
March 8, 2006
Today the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, has once again turned its attention to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Once again, Iran has not taken the hand extended to it by the Europeans and their principal partners, notably Russia.
I regret this, as I regretted last Friday in Vienna, during the European meeting...
March 8, 2006
Coming after younger Iranian hardliners dominated the 2003 municipal council elections and the 2004 parliamentary contest, the victory of Mahmud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential race represented a seemingly unstoppable political juggernaut. Yet within weeks of Ahmadinejad's inauguration, the legislature demonstrated that it would not be a...
March 6, 2006
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QUESTION: I came in a little late. I didn't hear the opening bell.
There are a lot of questions about Iran and nuclear. One goes back to an article, I think it was in the Post on Saturday, the notion that the U.S. would seek a 30-day cooling off period or moratorium or whatever, and if Iran didn't do something about its nuclear program, then...