Category Archives: IAEA

Possible Military Dimension

As Iran’s problems with recent cyberattacks by, for instance, the Stuxnet malware may continue, the UN nuclear watchdog Yukiya Amano’s quarterly reports on Iran’s nuclear program continue yielding fodder for media speculations about possible military dimensions. In his February 2011 report, … Continue reading

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The Stalemate

Update below. Update II. In the absence of constructive talks (those of world powers P5+1 and Iran in January in Istanbul must be considered a fiasco) positions as regards Iran’s nuclear program won’t change. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) … Continue reading

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Yukiya Amano’s Interview

That Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano gives an interview to Lally Weymouth of the Washington Post just days before his new reports on Iran’s nuclear (and Syria’s illicit) programs are presented to the IAEA’s … Continue reading

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Counterproductive Sanctions Policy

Iran’s new Foreign Minister and head of the country’s atomic energy organization had announced yesterday that Iran has now set up a special facility at Esfahan’s Uranium Conversion Plant to manufacture fuel plates for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR). According to … Continue reading

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Cyber Warfare

A new careful analysis of (and, as usual, wild speculation about) an IAEA safeguards report on Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year by David Albright, Paul Brannan and Christina Walrond of non-governmental, Washington D.C.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) … Continue reading

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