Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
December 12, 2003
A secure Europe in a better world: European security strategyBrussels, 12 December 2003
December 11, 2003
Forget, for the moment, Saddam's weapons of mass destruction -- or lack thereof. Consider instead the other WMD conundrum: Iran. Events in Pakistan, where two nuclear scientists were arrested last week, suggest the whole issue is about to blow. (Figuratively, that is.)
December 1, 2003
Below are details on the current status of Iran's programs to produce plutonium and enriched uranium.
I. URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
Iran's uranium enrichment program is more advanced than previously thought and Tehran maybe only a few years away from being able to produce enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) to make a nuclear weapon. On October 21...
December 1, 2003
The Iraq war was a precedent-setting case in which forcible regime change was employed to achieve nonproliferation objectives. Yet the useof this policy instrument belies a larger failure of international efforts to halt the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
November 28, 2003
Over the last week, the United States and Europe seemed headed for a major split over their approach to Iran's nuclear program.Washington argued that a recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency provided proof positive that Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons in violation of its treaty obligations, and it wanted the matter taken up by...
November 26, 2003
Resolution adopted by the Board on 26 November 2003.
November 26, 2003
The board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted by consensus of its 35 member states a resolution on proliferation in the nuclear domain in Iran. The resolution was presented by the ambassadors of France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
November 26, 2003
This is a good day for peace, multilateralism and non-proliferation.
A good day for peace because the Board decided to continue to make every effort to use verification and diplomacy to resolve questions about Iran's nuclear programme.
A good day for multilateralism because the international community has decided to stand as one in addressing what...
November 26, 2003
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our work in Iran is very much work in progress.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have committed ourselves to sign the additional protocol, and that's what we are going to do.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is one particular paragraph in the resolution, which makes it very, very clear that if Iran does not now comply with its obligations, and the...
November 26, 2003
Minister Frattini has expressed full satisfaction with the unanimous adoption by the IAEA Council of Governors of the resolution on the Iranian nuclear programme. The text lays the foundations for Iran's fruitful cooperation with the Atomic Agency of Vienna aimed at dispelling once and for all the doubts about the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear...