Iranian news agencies are really showing off the Uranium Conversion Facility at Esfahan (Isfahan), where Iran has resumed fuel cycle activities. The Fars news agency photographs Iran’s uranium conversion facility, inside and out. Check it out. Conservative daily Keyhan (full text via World News Connection) details the history of the facility, including failed negotiations with …
Rowhani Out; Larijani In
by | 2005-08-14 | No Comments
As previously rumored here at ACW, conservative Ali Larijani will replace Hasan Rowhani (Rohani) as Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)—becoming Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator. Larijani has had some very tough things to say about EU-Iran negotiations. Update: The Iranian Students News Agency reported on 11 August 2005 that Larijani was headed to …
Got Gas? Iran Stinks at Making UF6
by | 2005-08-13 | 9 Comments
Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility is the weak point in Iran’s nuclear fuel cycle. That was a victory for US nonproliferation policy under, gasp, the Clinton Administration. The new NIE on Iran’s nuclear program contains a pair of substantive revelations. Dafna Linzer in the Washington Post reported that a new NIE suggsts Iran may be further …
Did You Get That Memo?
by | 2005-08-12 | 3 Comments
I have previously noted Wade Boese’s article explaining that, despite previous Bush administration claims, the BBC China interdiction was not a PSI operation. For whatever reason, SecState Rice decided around that time to argue that the “PSI provided the framework for action in the 2003 interdiction of the ship BBC China,” rather than saying the …
