Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
May 19, 2005
Iran remains a serious foreign policy challenge for our country and the democratic world at large. For nearly a quarter century the United States and Iran have been without diplomatic relations. With the images of our Embassy hostages seared so deeply into our collective consciousness, it is easy to forget that our countries once enjoyed excellent...
May 19, 2005
The Bush administration and its European allies will soon have to make some tough decisions on what to do about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iran’s extensive program to develop an independent nuclear fuel cycle has reached a point where, short of a radical counter-revolution, no future Iranian government will be prepared to dismantle it.
May 19, 2005
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets today to examine issues related to Iran, particularly that country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. For more than eighteen years, Iran hid its nuclear activities from the world, despite being a State party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. To avoid punitive measures after the direction of its...
May 19, 2005
Public accounts indicate that the U.S. and international intelligence communities have been unable to paint an accurate, full portrait of Iran’s nuclear program. Perhaps there is some solace in the likelihood that Iranian officials negotiating nuclear matters also do not know the full range of activities and intentions in their nuclear program.
May 19, 2005
I am pleased to appear today before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. I direct the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, an organization here in Washington that maintains a web site specifically devoted to monitoring Iran’s mass destruction weapon efforts,www.IranWatch.org, to which I would like to...
May 18, 2005
Officials from the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Iran concluded the seventh round of negotiations on a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) in Brussels Wednesday evening expressing optimism on the future course of the talks.
"I think what we should note is that we have made constructive progress,'' Christian Leffler, Director of the...
May 10, 2005
International Affairs Deputy Head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization Mohamad Sa'idi said here Monday, "We reminded the Europeans during our talks with them in London at a meeting of the Iran-EU Steering Committee that results of IRI Presidential Elections would have no effects in country's nuclear programs." Speaking at a conference...
May 10, 2005
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Mr. Blix said he was less pessimistic about the consequences of failure of the Conference, but clearly there was unease, a feeling that the common edifice built over the last years was not being taken seriously. The possible development by the United States of bunker busting or testing was a unilateral policy made without care for the joint...
May 9, 2005
Boroujerdi-Enrichment Head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said here Monday continuation of voluntary uranium enrichment suspension is unwise.
May 8, 2005
Asefi Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said here Sunday Iran set no deadline for Europe's reply to Iran's proposals.
"The crossword puzzle of negotiations (between Iran and the European Union) is filling. The Europe should pay attention that we are at a decision-making stage (according to Paris Accord) and will resume enrichment one day...