The new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran’s nuclear program is out and it seems to conclude that “Iran’s leaders are locked in an increasingly heated debate over whether to move further toward developing nuclear weapons, saying the bite of international sanctions may be sowing discord,” as the Wall Street Journal tells. Given the simple [...]
Posts Tagged ‘uranium enrichment’
How Does an Enrichment Facility Look From Space?
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged Abyek, MKO, National Council for the Resistance of Iran, NCRI, NPT, Qazvin, Qom, uranium enrichment on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When last year, at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, President Obama, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Sarkozy made public a secret uranium enrichment site at Fordow near Qom in Iran, one week after the Iranians had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the construction site in a letter, the international [...]
An Upcoming War in the Middle East?
Posted in Iran, NPT, tagged Abdullah Toukan, Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS, Middle East, nuclear bombs, preemptive strike, uranium enrichment, Washington think tanks on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to a recent study presented by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a Washington D.C.-based, bipartisan foreign policy think tank, “[T]here is a suspicion in the West that Iran wants to start an open ended dialog and negotiations to buy time to reduce pressure for sanctions, and use it as a screen to [...]
Nuclear Iran
Posted in HEU, Iran, LEU, Qom nuclear site, USA, tagged Dennis C. Blair, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, NIE, uranium enrichment on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The unclassified part of Director of U.S. National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair’s report for the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence does not present anything new about Iran, nothing which has not been known so far. Of course, it mentions the new enrichment facility in Qom, but whether Iran has made the political decision to manufacture nuclear weapons [...]
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