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Policy Briefs
November 4, 2014
Last week, the United States uttered the clearest statement so far of its aims for a nuclear deal with Iran. In an interview on October 30, U.S.
Policy Briefs
October 28, 2014
As the present nuclear talks with Iran slipped into their final month, U.S. Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman warned that the world would blame Iran if the talks failed. In a speech on October 23, Under Secretary Sherman said that Iran had been offered “a number of ideas that are equitable, enforceable, and consistent with Tehran’s expressed...
Policy Briefs
October 21, 2014
Yet another round of nuclear talks with Iran ended last week, with the parties in deadlock on essential points. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spent six hours in talks in Vienna on October 15, where he met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. In addition to the stalemate in...
Policy Briefs
October 14, 2014
On October 7-8, Iran refused once again to answer questions from the International Atomic Energy Agency about research with possible nuclear weapon applications, including alleged work on the initiation of high explosives and studies on neutron transport calculations. These were two out of the five “practical measures” that Iran had agreed to...
Policy Briefs
October 6, 2014
Warning flags went up in Israel and Congress last week, after nuclear talks with Iran ended again in failure on September 26. On September 29, in an address to the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Iran was trying to “bamboozle its way to an agreement that will remove sanctions […] and leave it with the...
Policy Briefs
September 30, 2014
Talks on a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran continued last week in New York, although any progress achieved was apparently not enough to justify elevating negotiations to the foreign minister level. Officials from both the P5+1 states and Iran voiced hope that a deal was within reach while also cautioning that the remaining details could...
Policy Briefs
September 22, 2014
Talks resumed on Tehran’s nuclear program last Friday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. These negotiations – the first high-level talks since an interim nuclear accord was extended in July - come amid renewed pessimism that the parties will be able to reach a deal by the November 24 deadline.
Policy Briefs
September 12, 2014
According to the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has failed once again to answer the Agency’s questions about suspicious experiments with high explosives and studies on neutron initiators – both of which have decided nuclear weapon applications. This refusal is likely to diminish the chance of progress in the next...
International Enforcement Actions
August 20, 2014
In December 2012, a shipment of carbon fiber was seized aboard the Shahraz, a ship en route from China to Bandar Abbas in Iran. The Shahraz was carrying 1,800 bobbins of carbon fiber weighing 7,200 kg and manufactured by the Japan-based company Toray. A U.N. Panel of Experts charged with investigating violations of Security Council resolutions...
International Enforcement Actions
June 15, 2014
On June 13, 2014 Vahid Hosseini, a naturalized American citizen born in Iran, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and two years of supervised release after pleading guilty to charges of money laundering and conspiracy to violate the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by...