The Iranian Students News Agency (via AFP and Reuters) reported that Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said Iran “currently [has] 3,000 operational centrifuges and [has] delivered more than 100 kilogrammes of enriched uranium to warehouses.” Then the Interior Ministry denied the statement: Public relations of Iran’s Interior Ministry in a fax Friday denied some quotations …
Russia Goodbye
by | 2007-06-22 | No Comments
This is it. My last day in Moscow. Some last notes from the motherland? Well, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at the Carnegie Moscow Center yesterday. I spent the morning worrying about how not to get him stuck in the elevator and making small talk with the security people. More details on Lavrov’s talk – …
Frickin' Extend START Already
by | 2007-06-21 | 11 Comments
Jonathan Landay pens a great story about the internal debate between Administration officials seeking a looser START inspections regime and intelligence agencies who kinda like the data they get: Alarmed by the stress on the limited fleet of U.S. spy satellites, however, U.S. intelligence agencies oppose weakening the on-site inspections and other means that give …
More on Harvey & RRW
by | 2007-06-18 | 12 Comments
I am extremely pleased that our little shindig with John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, has resulted in a couple of stories in press, including wire reports by Agence France Presse and UPI. The UPI story, however, has a couple of inaccuracies that I am honor-bound to point out. The first two are …
