Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
September 1, 2021
Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, spoke today by phone with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir Abdollahian.The minister underscored the urgent need to immediately resume the negotiations suspended by Iran in June in order to allow the return to full compliance with the 2015 Vienna nuclear deal. The minister expressed...
August 29, 2021
Ayatollah Dr Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi appointed Mr Mohammad Eslami as Vice-President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation.Mohammad Eslami was born in 1956 in the city of Isfahan and has a master's degree in civil engineering.
August 23, 2021
Since Iran, the United States and other parties (China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK and the European Union) wrapped up the sixth round of talks aimed at restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on 20 June, the negotiations have been at a standstill. In mid-July, Tehran announced that its envoys would not return to Vienna for...
August 20, 2021
Shifting course to a better Iran policy is more critical than ever in the wake of Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, as Tehran and other adversaries will exploit the U.S. power vacuum. This will be bitter medicine for a president and administration that have routinely denigrated the Trump administration’s Iran sanctions campaign. On August 13...
August 19, 2021
We, the governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, note with grave concern the latest reports by the IAEA confirming that Iran has produced uranium metal enriched up to 20% for the first time, and has significantly increased its production capacity of uranium enriched up to 60%.
August 18, 2021
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the country's nuclear program and activities are fully in line with the Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT) and its Safeguards commitments.In a statement on Tuesday, Khatibzadeh noted that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been supervising Iran’s nuclear activities and that...
August 17, 2021
1. This report of the Director General to the Board of Governors and, in parallel, to the United Nations Security Council (Security Council), is on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (Iran’s) implementation of its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in relation to its enrichment-related...
August 16, 2021
1. This report of the Director General to the Board of Governors and, in parallel, to the United Nations Security Council (Security Council), is on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (Iran’s) implementation of its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on activities related to fuel manufacturing...
August 11, 2021
An underexamined success story from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiations is the effective blocking of Tehran’s ability to collect plutonium for a nuclear bomb. Not only has the nuclear deal, known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), been effective in constraining Iran’s program, but it could, suitably adapted, provide...
August 11, 2021
How should the United States respond to Iran’s July 31 drone attack on the Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned, Liberian-flagged, Israeli-managed oil products tanker in international waters off the coast of Oman, killing the Romanian captain and a British crewmember?