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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


March 1998 - Iran Special Weapons News

  • TEXT: CLINTON REPORT TO CONGRESS ON IRAN NATIONAL EMERGENCY 17 March 1998 (Iran's policies, actions present threat to US security)
  • U-S / CHINA / IRAN Voice of America 3/13/98 THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT -- ACTING ON AN AMERICAN REQUEST -- HAS BLOCKED AN ATTEMPT BY IRAN TO ACQUIRE FROM CHINA A CHEMICAL USED IN MAKING NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
  • [EXCERPTS]: STATE DEPT. NOON BRIEFINGX 13 March 1998 CHINA/IRAN/NONPROLIFERATION -- An incident involving a proposed sale by a Chinese entity to Iran of a chemical used in the nuclear industry was an example of how international nonproliferation efforts can succeed, according to Rubin.
  • U-S / RUSSIA Voice of America 3/11/98: VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE SAYS PROGRESS HAS MADE IN RESOLVING THE DISPUTE WITH MOSCOW OVER RUSSIAN SALES OF BALLISTIC MISSILE TECHNOLOGY TO IRAN.
  • RUSSIA/U-S/IRAN VOA 3/9/98 RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER VICTOR CHERNOMYRDIN HAS REAFFIRMED THE KREMLIN'S COMMITMENT TO KEEP MISSILE TECHNOLOGY OUT OF IRANIAN HANDS.
  • U.S. Presses Russia on Iran and Missile Aid By MICHAEL R. GORDON The New York Times March 9, 1998
  • Against U.S. Wishes, Russia Will Sell Reactors to Iran By MICHAEL R. GORDON The New York Times March 7, 1998 -- In a rebuff to the United States, Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry said on Friday that it plans to sell several additional nuclear reactors to Iran.
  • IRAN/UKRAINE/BELARUS VOA 3/7/98 IRAN HAS CRITICIZED UKRAINE FOR CANCELLING A NUCLEAR COOPERATION DEAL UNDER U-S PRESSURE AND IS ALREADY COURTING ANOTHER POTENTIAL SOURCE OF SUCH TECHNOLOGY -- BELARUS.
  • RUSSIA / IRAN VOA 3/6/98 RUSSIA HAS AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO HELP BUILD MORE REACTORS AT A CONTROVERSIAL NUCLEAR POWER STATION IN (BUSHEHR) IRAN.
  • CLINTON CONTINUES IRAN NATIONAL EMERGENCY "Because the actions and policies of the Government of Iran continue to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency declared on March 15, 1995, must continue in effect beyond March 15, 1998," President Clinton said March 4.
  • TEXT: CLINTON CONTINUES IRAN NATIONAL EMERGENCY USIA 04 March 1998 (President says Iran remains a threat to US national security)
  • Moscow not supplying weapons to Iran, Israeli minister says Associated Press, 03/04/98
  • Iranian Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Weapons: Implications And Responses, by W. Seth Carus, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Vol. 2, No. 1 (#5) March 1998 - Makes four main opservations - that the United States has been remarkably successful in constraining Iranian capabilities, that the real threat these capabilities pose is to the security of America's friends and allies in the region, that the U.S. needs to continue to pursue a strategy that mixes multilateral and bilateral approaches, and that the problem is not uniquely tied to the current regime.



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