Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
November 9, 2004
Unofficial translation from Russian
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Question: What are the prospects of signing a Russian-Iranian agreement on the return of spent nuclear fuel? How is this problem tied to the IAEA decisions on the Iranian nuclear program?
November 9, 2004
Iran`s Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said on Monday that probable referral of Iran`s nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council should not be magnified. He said "We do our best to prevent Iran`s nuke dossier from being referred to the UN Security Council but it does not mean however means that a big...
November 8, 2004
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Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen
It is a great pleasure to be here at this regional conference on nuclear safeguards and security. Today has seen a stimulating discussion of key security issues, in particular the threat of nuclear terrorism. The world received a wake-up call earlier this year when the AQ Khan's proliferation...
November 6, 2004
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing conferred here Saturday with the Chairman of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on expansion of mutual, regional, international cooperation as well as issues pertaining to Iran`s peaceful application of nuclear technology.
November 6, 2004
Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing announced here Saturday China`s opposition to hauling Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, saying this would make the standoff more complicated. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi, the Chinese minister described Tehran`s cooperation with the...
November 5, 2004
Iran`s suspension of uranium enrichment is negotiable only for confidence-building but not for an indefinite period, said an Iranian official. "Islamic Republic rejects any suspension which obliges the country to terminate its peaceful nuclear programme," head of Supreme National Security Council`s foreign policy committee Hossein Mousavian told...
November 2, 2004
Threats of nuclear weapons proliferation emerge episodically on the world scene like Steven Bochco cop dramas.
In the 1980s and early '90s, the world watched anxiously as Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus either acquired or were trying to acquire the bomb. Each episode ended happily, as the United States and...
November 1, 2004
The General Assembly today affirmed its confidence in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and urged global cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, following the annual address by Agency Chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
Adopting a resolution by a recorded vote of 123 in favour to one against (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)...
November 1, 2004
What makes the nuclear discussion sensitive is that the nuclear technologies and technologies related to the [nuclear] fuel cycle are particularly sensitive technologies. This is because having fuel cycle capability almost means that the country that possesses this capability is able to produce nuclear weapons, should that country have the...
November 1, 2004
The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) hereby submits this report in response to a congressionally directed action in Section 721 of the FY 1997 Intelligence Authorization Act, which states:
(a) Reports
The Director of Central Intelligence shall submit to Congress an annual report on -
(1) The acquisition by foreign countries during the...