Iran tabled a General Framework for Objective Guarantees, Firm Guarantees and Firm Commitments at the informal meeting the EU-Iran Steering Committee on 29 April 2005. The framework outlines a series of reciprocal actions, including a controversial proposal to resume uranium conversion and operate some 3,000 centrifuges under IAEA surveillance.
North Korean Nuclear Test Preparations
by | 2005-05-04 | 1 Comment
The Chosun Ilbo reports the US has briefed South Korea that movements of heavy equipment signal an impending nuclear test.
Iranian EMP "Threat"
by | 2005-05-03 | No Comments
Bouphonia discovers just how easy it is to be the Arms Control Wonk: Yesterday, I discussed an apocryphal Iranian magazine article called “Electronics to Determine Fate of Future Wars,” which supposedly threatened the United States with an electromagnetic pulse attack, via aerial detonation of a nuclear weapon. I wasn’t able to find the article online, …
Informal EU3-Iran Steering Committee Meets in London
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EU-Iran Steering Committee, December 2004. What does it say about the Western press when IRNA is the best source of news about the ongoing EU-Iran negotiations? The hoary press convention that every story needs a “hook” distorts reporting, creating a sense that every development is a crisis. If Hossein Mousavian left the negotiating table to …
