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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘P5+1’
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 »
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 [...]
Well-prepared Iranians
Posted in Iran, NPT, USA, tagged Geneva talks, P5+1, Saeed Jalili on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
That the Iranian delegation in Geneva in their long-awaited talks with World powers P5+1 would announce IAEA inspections of its second enrichment facility at Qom, which had been revealed only last week, within a couple of months had been expected. That Iran suggested further enrichment to 20% of already produced LEU, or low enriched uranium [...]
Nuclear Qom
Posted in Iran, NPT, USA, tagged ISIS, nuclear, P5+1, Qom, uranium enrichment on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When did Iran commence work at the Qom site? The question might be of significance when considering new ‘crippling’ sanctions. Its answer seems to be complicated. In March 2007, Iran withdraw its voluntary adhesion to the so-called modified code 3.1 of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), implemented in 1992, which requires the member states (the [...]