[Congressional Bills 113th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] [S. Res. 65 Introduced in Senate (IS)] 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 65 Strongly supporting the full implementation of United States and international sanctions on Iran and urging the President to continue to strengthen enforcement of sanctions legislation. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE … Continue reading »
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Iran IAEA Report Sept 2012
A. Introduction 1. This report of the Director General to the Board of Governors and, in parallel, to the Security Council, is on the implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran). 2. The Security Council has affirmed that the steps required by … Continue reading »
Playing Nuclear Chicken
It is difficult to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle in an Iran that has ambitions that involve not only the destruction of Israel and the expansion of its power in the Middle East, but its full emergence on the stage as a world power. I have read a number of respected military … Continue reading »
IAEA Iran Report Annex: Possible Military Dimensions to Iran’s Nuclear Programme
Shame most msm dont include this with their stories… 1. This Annex consists of three Sections: Section A, which provides an historical overview of the Agency’s efforts to resolve questions about the scope and nature of Iran’s nuclear programme, in particular regarding concerns about possible military dimensions; Section B, which provides a general description of … Continue reading »
Irans Nuclear Ambitions under the Shah and Ayatollahs
Strikingly Analogous but More Dangerous by Stephen McGlinchey and Jamsheed K. Choksy Editor’s Note: I have converted the authors’ notes into hyperlinks, but I encourage you to hover over the links and click on for excellent resources. This paper is very well sourced, including excellent primary documents from George Washington University’s National Security Archive. If … Continue reading »
Iran May have Tested Nukes in N. Korea in 2010
The Sunday morning edition of Germany’s Die Welt reports that Western intelligence agencies detected two nuclear weapons tests in North Korea in 2010, and that one or both of them might have been conducted for Iran. Die Welt sets the reported nuclear tests in the context of new documentation showing that the Iranian regime began … Continue reading »
Updated Iran resolution on Obama’s plate
Whereas since at least the late 1980s, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in a sustained and well-documented pattern of illicit and deceptive activities to acquire a nuclear capability; Whereas the United Nations Security Council has adopted multiple resolutions since 2006 demanding the full and sustained suspension of all uranium enrichment-related … Continue reading »
Obama, Iran in secret nuclear deal
My sources inside Iran tell me that President Obama, seeking to protect the recovering U.S. economy and bolster his chances of being re-elected in November, apparently has entered into an informal agreement with Iran that he believes will defuse the nuclear weapons crisis and keep Israel from attacking the Islamic regime. The agreement calls for … Continue reading »
America’s Iranian Self-Deception
Let’s admit the facts about its nuclear program and then have an honest debate about what to do. Americans are being played for fools by Iran—and fooling themselves. There is no case to be made that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons capability. There is no evidence that Iran’s decision-makers are willing to stop … Continue reading »
New IAEA report on Iran Feb.2012..Read it here, and its not so good
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran Introduction 1. This report of the Director General to the Board of Governors and, in parallel, to the Security Council, is on the implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement1 and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions … Continue reading »
Shorter and Shorter Timeframe if Iran Decides to Make Nuclear Weapons
Research conducted by Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security will likely cast further doubt on Tehran’s denials that it’s seeking atomic bombs; new IAEA report on Iran due out in days. Reality Check: Shorter and Shorter Timeframe if Iran Decides to Make Nuclear Weapons Rev.1 by David Albright, Paul Brannan, Andrea Stricker and Andrew … Continue reading »
Iran’s ‘Fordow’ Nuke Plant Now Fully Operational
According to Mehr News Agency, sources within Iran revealed that there will be an announcement in a few days that the previously secret nuclear site, the Fordow nuclear enrichment facility, is now fully operational and enriching uranium at a 20% level. The world learned about the existence of this site in 2009 when the Iranians … Continue reading »
Countdown! Iran’s finger on nuclear trigger
WASHINGTON – Iranian nuclear experts have completed the component for a nuclear bomb trigger, overcoming a major obstacle in obtaining the bomb, according to sources within Iran. As reported last May, the Iranian nuclear and military industries, under the order of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were to weaponize at least two warheads with … Continue reading »
An Iranian Oppenheimer?
An Iranian Oppenheimer? The Mystery Man Behind Tehran’s Secret Nuclear Program The lynchpin at the center of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Mohsen Fakrizadeh has drawn comparisons to both Robert Oppenheimer and Pakistan’s Abdul Qadeer Khan. U.N. inspectors would love to meet the elusive scientist. Others want him dead. from Worldcrunch By Natalie Nougayrède LE MONDE/Worldcrunch … Continue reading »
Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock
This is BPC’s fourth report on the most immediate national security challenge facing our nation: Iran’s continued progress towards nuclear weapons capability. Despite perceived setbacks, including the Stuxnet cyber attack and the bite of increased sanctions, the danger of a nuclear Iran has not diminished. In this report we examine Iran’s rapid nuclear progress and … Continue reading »
‘Massive’ Blockade Needed to Stop Iran Threat
A “massive” aerial and naval blockade of Iran, reminiscent of the 1962 U.S. quarantine of Cuba, is needed to stop the Islamic regime from pursuing nuclear weapons, Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said. The European Union’s ban on imports of Iranian crude and other economic sanctions “might not be sufficient” to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions, … Continue reading »
