Talks in Istanbul today between delegates of the the UN Security Council member states plus Germany, and Iran over the latter’s disputed nuclear program are said to have been constructive. After weeks of mixed and highly confusing messages sent out by President Obama and his administration about either acceptance of Iran’s enrichment program in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Additional Protocol’
Maybe a Breakthrough
Posted in IAEA, Iran, NPT, P5+1, USA, tagged 20% LEU, Additional Protocol, Ali Larijani, Catherine Ashton, Geneva talks, Istanbul talks, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, modified Code 3.1, Saeed Jalili, swap deal, TRR on April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The High-explosive Test Chamber
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged Additional Protocol, David Albright, ISIS, military dimension, NPT, nuclear program, Parchin, Paul Brannan on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
David Albright and Paul Brannan of the Washington based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) have allegedly identified, on commercial satellite imagery, a building that inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wanted to visit on February 21 but were denied access by Iranian delegates. The building, so Albright and Brannan, contains or [...]
Not on Israel’s To-Bomb List
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged Additional Protocol, high explosives experiments, NPT, P5+1, Parchin on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had been denied access to Parchin, a controversial military site 30 km southeast of Tehran, had to be expected. Iran has, so far and regrettably, not ratified its Additional Protocol of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) which would most probably allow IAEA inspectors surprise visits (with [...]
Slowly Stockpiling HEU
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged Additional Protocol, Fereydoun Abbasi, Fordow, HEU, LEU, modified Code 3.1, Natanz, NPT, P5+1, Russian proposal, weapons grade uranium, Yukiya Amano on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Quarterly reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Director General (DG) Yukiya Amano are becoming increasingly strident. In his latest, probably meant alarming, report of September 2, Amano states (under G. Possible Military Dimensions) that, “… the Agency is increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past and current undisclosed nuclear related [...]