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December 1998 - Iran Special Weapons News

  • YEARENDER: IRANIAN POLITICS '98 Voice of America 22 December 1998 -- 1998 SAW DEEPENING POLARIZATION OF POLITICS IN IRAN AS THE REFORMIST PRESIDENT MOHAMMAD KHATAMI FACED GROWING OPPOSITION FROM CONSERVATIVES ALIGNED WITH THE SUPREME RELIGIOUS LEADER AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI.
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 1, Number 4 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 21 December 1998 -- IRANIAN HOSPITALITY NOT AS COLD AS NEWSPAPERS SUGGEST. / GOOD NEWS AND BAD FOR THE IRANIAN ECONOMY / WHAT DO THE FRIDAY PRAYERS MEAN? / OFFICIALS IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES BENEFIT FROM OIL SMUGGLING / PROFILE OF AN IRANIAN JOURNALIST
  • State Department Briefing -- 16 December 1998 -- QUESTION: ... referring to yesterday's Wall Street Journal article, titled "Fission for Cash," the reports are that at least two Russian nuclear agencies are in the shadow of Bushehr on the side, are quietly negotiating to sell Iran a 40 mega-watt heavy water research reactor and a uranium conversion facility that would allow fissionable materials to be produced by the Iranians.
  • DoD News Briefing December 15, 1998 -- Q: Can you comment on the continued flow of Russian technology to Iran's nuclear program? And can you provide the building's best estimate on when Iran could first conceivably produce a nuclear weapon?
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 1, Number 3 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 7 December 1998 -- Tehran Rejects Cooperation With West Against Iraq. / Iran And Hizballah: Together Again? / Iranian Women Protest Discriminatory Laws. / Living With The New Budget... / ...Won't Be So Easy For Some. / Ukraine Is Winner In Russia-Iran Nuclear Project.



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