The following is the May 10, 2019 Congressional Research Service Report, Iran’s Nuclear Program. Read More
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Report to Congress on Status of Iran’s Nuclear Program
The following is the April 1, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status. Read More
Report to Congress on Iran’s Nuclear Program
The following is the Feb. 7, 2019 Congressional Research Service Report, Iran’s Nuclear Program: Tehran’s Compliance with International Obligations. Read More
Report to Congress on Status of Iran’s Nuclear Programs
The following is the Sept. 19, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status. Read More
Diplomats: EU Wrestling with Iran Nuclear Deal After American Exit
Head of Mission of People’s Republic of China to the European Union Hailong Wu, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarifat, an unidentified Russian official, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pose for a photo following negotiations between the P5+1 member nations and Iranian officials about the future of their country’s nuclear program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on April 2, 2015. US State Department Photo
The Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal leaves the European Union with the difficult choice of continuing to trade with Iran to keep up its end of the accord but also faces the loss of doing business in the United States, the EU ambassador to Washington said Wednesday. Read More
Mattis: U.S. Left Nuclear Deal Due to Iranian Military Aggression, Missile Testing
President Donald J. Trump walks with Defense Secretary James N. Mattis following a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2018. DoD photo.
Defense Secretary James Mattis stressed it was Tehran’s aggressive military behavior – from ballistic missile testing to its intervention in the Syrian civil war to financially and militarily supporting terrorists to threatening maritime commerce across the Middle East – that factored into President Donald Trump’s decision this week to walk away from the nuclear agreement with Iran. Read More
Iranian Presidential Election May Be Referendum on Nuclear Deal
Voting in Iran on May 19, 2017. IRNA Photo
On Friday, many of the 56 million eligible voters in Iran will cast their votes a tight contest between the current reformist president Hassan Rouhani, and the conservative candidate Ebrahim Raisi. The Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei cast his ballot early Friday morning and encouraged all eligible voters to head to the polls. Khamenei said that “the country’s fate is determined by the people.” Al Jazeera, and other international news sources are reporting long lines at the polls. Voting is scheduled to end this evening, and the results are normally computed within 24 hours. Read More
Panel: Chilly U.S. – Iran Relationship Unlikely to Thaw Soon
Anti-American graffiti on the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran in 2009. Photo by Phillip Maiwald
While Tehran is sticking to the “four corners of the deal” over its nuclear weapons program, neither Iran nor the United States is ready to go much beyond the agreement in normalizing relations, a panel of experts on the region agreed Wednesday. Read More
Author: Iran Needed the Nuclear Deal
A Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr, southern Iran. IIPA Photo
The plunging price of oil, the escalating costs of its intervention in Syria and the dramatic effect economic sanctions were having on its economy, “the last thing the Iranians were going to do was walk” away from nuclear arms talks, the author of a new book on relations between Washington and Tehran contends. Read More
Analysis: A Year After the Iran Nuclear Deal
Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Geneva on January 14 for a bilateral meeting to provide guidance to their negotiating teams before their next round of discussions, which begin on January 15. US State Dept. Photo
If measured only by the ton, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly referred to as “the Iran nuclear deal,” would be considered a smashing success. Read More
