Turns out some IAEA officials think the purloined laptop that the US has been shopping as evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program is a fake, at least in part because all the files are in English. The laptop’s contents…
ISIS has the IAEA Report on Technical Cooperation with Iran (Cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Agency in light of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737(2006), GOV/2007/7.) I blogged about the forthcoming report a week or…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Arak Heavy Water Plant. Paul has a wrap up of the Iranian bureaucratic machinery behind Iran’s decision to bar 38 French, British, German and Canadian nationals from serving as IAEA inspectors in Iran. Mark…
So, like, I have a little rhetorical advice for Ali Asghar Soltanieh (pictured at left). The IAEA has refused your country’s request for technical cooperation—the TC of the title—to improve safety at the IR-40 heavy water reactor under construction near…
The New York University Law School Magazine contains “a rare in-depth profile of Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’74, LL.D. ’04), who runs the International Atomic Energy Agency.” The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner believes that, to forestall violence, the…
Here is the latest IAEA Report by the Director General concerning Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran is flat out denying the Green Salt claim: 38. On 5 December 2005, the Secretariat repeated…
I have an article in the Nieman Watchdog—a publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University—about the relationship between the NPT and the showdown with Iran, the gist of which is basically … The vast majority of states…
Dafna Linzer has a detailed account in the Post on the contents of that laptop. I’ll try to write more this afternoon.
Whether India should place its developmental Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam under IAEA safeguards is shaping up as the most contentious issue regarding the creation of a “separation plan” Inda nuclear facilities. (See: Safeguarding Breeder Reactors, January 24, 2006.) If…
Here is the full text of Olli Heinonen’s update brief on Developments in the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Agency Verification of Iran’s Suspension of Enrichment-related and Reprocessing Activities. The document also…
