Category Archives: NPT

Something to Work With

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Muller

Iran’s long-awaited diplomatic proposal (not really a package) to the P5+1 world powers, the US, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, China, has disappointed many. The harshest reactions were coming from the US. American lawmakers may even want to use the five pages … Continue reading →

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Inspections

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Muller

Yesterday, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has submitted his new safeguards report on Iran’s (and Syria’s) nuclear activities. It is now circulated among the 35 members of the IAEA Board of Governors and … Continue reading →

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Surprising Turn

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Muller

The Arak 40-megawatt, heavy-water reactor, Iran’s IR-40, is under construction since 2004 and will likely be operative sometime in 2013. In violating its safeguards obligations of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of which the country is a signatory, Iran had … Continue reading →

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Not Before 2013 – Ever?

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Muller

In his updated testimony to Congress Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has now further shifted a possible date as to when Iran may have achieved capabilities of producing highly enriched uranium (HEU) to “not before 2013” (from “between 2010 … Continue reading →

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New Centrifuges

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Muller

One day after President Barack Obama’s historical speech in Cairo addressing the Muslim World, where he as the first sitting American president admitted to the U.S. contribution on the 1953 coup d’état toppling the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed … Continue reading →

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