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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


March 2003 Iran Special Weapons News



  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 14 31 Mar 2003 -- RUMSFELD: IRANIAN PRESENCE 'UNHELPFUL.' / SCIRI SENDING MIXED MESSAGES ON ITS INTENTIONS / IRAQI SHIA OR IRANIAN 'APPARATCHIKS? / WARNING OF AN ANTI-U.S. SHIA UPRISING / TEHRAN CONCERNED ABOUT IRAQI SHIA SHRINES / IRAN OFFERS MKO AMNESTY AFTER U.S. FORCES DESTROY MKO BASE / FIERCE PUK, ANSAR AL-ISLAM FIGHTING IN SPITE OF AMNESTY / IRAN TURNS ITS BACK ON ANSAR AL-ISLAM / TEHRAN POLL FINDS SUSPICION OF U.S. MOTIVES / THE IRAQ WAR AND IRANIAN POLITICS / ANTIWAR RALLIES IN IRAN / IRANIAN ARMS SHIPMENT SEIZED IN ITALY / DIFFERING VIEWS ON GOVERNMENT APPROACH TO UNEMPLOYMENT / CITING ARGENTINA BOMBINGS, ISRAEL WANTS IRAN TO BE NEXT
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 13 24 Mar 2003 -- KHAMENEI, KHATAMI CONDEMN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM / IRANIAN DIPLOMACY CONTINUES AFTER CONFLICT BEGINS / TEHRAN RADIO COMMENTARY DENOUNCES U.S. / TEHRAN'S REPEATED CLAIMS OF U.S. 'PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE.' / MKO LEADER RUNS / IRGC COMMANDER ANNOUNCES READINESS / TEHRAN PROTESTS ALLEGED AIRSPACE VIOLATIONS / IRAN CLOSES ITS BORDERS; NO REFUGEES YET / IRAN'S MIA SEARCH IN IRAQ TO RESUME AFTER WAR / AL-KHOI DENIES ROLE IN FUTURE IRAQI ADMINISTRATION / IRAQI ISLAMIST COMPLAINS OF EXCLUSION / IRAQI OPPOSITION LEADERS MEET IN ANKARA / SCIRI EMPHASIZES MILITARY ACTIVITIES / IRANIAN-BACKED ARAB ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN IRAQ INVASION / BUDGET INCREASE FOR GUARDIANS A SETBACK FOR REFORMISTS / AGHAJARI REFUSES PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION / NO HICCUPS IN IRAN-RUSSIA CONTACTS / BUSH WISHES IRANIAN AMERICANS HAPPY NORUZ / TEHRAN REJECTS U.S. 'EMERGENCY' EXTENSION
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 12 20 Mar 2003 -- LEADING IRANIAN OFFICIALS EXPRESS SKEPTICISM ABOUT U.S. MOTIVES / TEHRAN PROMOTES MULTILATERALISM... / ...AND PROFESSES NEUTRALITY / PARLIAMENT RECOMMENDS CAUTION IN DEALING WITH IRAQ / IRAN TO FEND OFF REFUGEE INFLUX / IRAN DURING DESERT STORMIRAN'S INTEREST IN SHIA IRAQ
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 11 17 Mar 2003 -- IRAN WOULD REDUCE WHEAT IMPORTS REGARDLESS OF ARGENTINIAN JUDICIARY / RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER REASSURES TEHRAN DURING VISIT / CONTINUING IRAN-RUSSIA NUCLEAR COOPERATION / TEHRAN DEFENDS ITS NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES / VISITING TURKMEN PRESIDENT SIGNS SEVERAL AGREEMENTS / GASOLINE PRICE HIKE COULD RAISE INFLATION ABOVE 20 PERCENT / RESTRICTIONS ON MONTAZERI CONTINUE / STUDENT OUTRAGE INCREASING / PARLIAMENTARIAN CALLS FOR CABINET SHUFFLE / TEHRAN COUNCIL ELECTION LEAVES POLITICALLY SIGNIFICANT ISSUES UNRESOLVED / JOURNALISTS APPEAR IN COURT / JOURNALIST'S LAWYER CANNOT DEFEND HIM IN CARTOON CASE / DON'T GO IN THE WATER / IRANIAN NAVAL FORCES IN THE NEWS / SUPREME LEADER TELLS IRGC NAVY OF AMERICA'S PENDING QUAGMIRE / IRANIAN ARMED FORCES READY / IRAN-IRAQ POW AND MIA COMMITTEE RESUMES MEETINGS / PARLIAMENTARIAN: AMERICAN ATTACK ON IRAQ WILL BE SHAMEFUL / IRANIAN HUMAN SHIELD HOPEFULS / CONTRADICTORY REPORTS ON TEHRAN-WASHINGTON DEAL OVER IRAQ / SCIRI UNENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT U.S. PLANS FOR IRAQ / IRANIAN OFFICIAL DETAILS DIVISION OF IRAQ / AFGHAN REFUGEES RESUME REPATRIATION
  • EDITORIAL: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM ADVANCES VOA 14 Mar 2003 -- According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has made much more progress on its nuclear weapons development program than most people realized. As U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on March 9th, this shows "how a determined nation that has the intent to develop a nuclear weapon can keep that development process secret from inspectors and outsiders if they really are determined to do it."
  • POWELL-IRAN VOA 13 Mar 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell says revelations in recent days about the extent of Iran's nuclear program vindicate the Bush administration's tough approach toward the Islamic government in Tehran. In Congressional testimony Thursday, Mr. Powell also stressed U-S support for Iranian reformers and their youthful supporters.
  • Text: Bush Orders Continuation of National Emergency with Respect to Iran Washington File 13 Mar 2003 -- President Bush has ordered a continuation of the national emergency with respect to Iran
  • IRAN / NUCLEAR VOA 13 Mar 2003 -- Eighty journalists and photographers were given a tour this week (Tuesday) of Iran's first nuclear power plant, which is under construction in the southwest of the country. The United States says the plant is part of an effort by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, something Iran vehemently denies. But an expert on Iran says while it is unlikely Tehran is currently trying to develop nuclear weapons, the plant, she says, will enable Iran to build nuclear weapons in a few years.
  • IRAN NUCLEAR VOA 12 Mar 2003 -- As if there is not enough tension in the world regarding weapons of mass destruction, with the U-S teetering toward war with Iraq and North Korea flexing its nuclear muscles, now Iran re-enters the picture.
  • EDITORIAL: ARREST OF SHOLEH SADI VOA 12 Mar 2003 -- Qasem Sholeh Sadi [kah-sim sho-leh sah-dee], prominent lawyer, university professor, and former member of Iran's parliament, was arrested on February 24th by Iranian authorities. According to Amnesty International, he has been permitted only a few brief telephone calls to his family. He was held incommunicado for six days. He has not been permitted to meet with his attorney. He is being detained without any recognizable process of law.
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 10 RFE/L 10 Mar 2003 -- TURKMEN LEADER'S VISIT TO TEHRAN TO FOCUS ON ENERGY, CASPIAN / AFGHAN GOVERNOR ISMAIL KHAN VISITS IRAN / IRANIAN STATE RADIO BROADCASTS HEKMATYAR STATEMENT / KHATAMI EXPRESSES READINESS FOR IRAQI REFUGEES / IRAN CITES 'SECURITY' IN HALTING PILGRIMAGES TO IRAQ / IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KEEN ON IRAQ REFERENDUM / TEHRAN CONFERENCE STRIVES FOR IRAQI SHIA UNITY / IRGC STAGES WAR GAMES NEAR IRAQI BORDER / TOP SECURITY OFFICIAL DESCRIBES U.S. REGIONAL OBJECTIVES / TEHRAN-ISLAMABAD TIES IN TROUBLE / SUPREME LEADER CONCLUDES VISIT TO SISTAN VA BALUCHISTAN / KURDISH PARLIAMENTARIANS CONCERNED ABOUT PROVINCIAL DEVELOPMENTS / TEHRAN WANTS TO CONFRONT ORGANIZED CRIME / IRANIAN FOREIGN DEBT IS $23.4 BILLION / IRANIAN FOREIGN DEBT IS $23.4 BILLION' / KERMAN PLANE-CRASH MYSTERY CONTINUES / MORE SURPRISES FROM MUNICIPAL-COUNCIL ELECTIONS / CLARIFICATION / END NOTE: IRAN'S POST-REFORM ERA
  • Iran's Secret Nuclear Development Belies "Peaceful Purposes" Claim Washington File 10 Mar 2003 -- Iran's secret development of a nuclear fuel processing facility "refutes the claim that it was all for peaceful purposes," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters at the department's noon briefing March 10.
  • US / IRAN NUCLEAR VOA 10 Mar 2003 -- The United States reiterated its concern Monday about Iran's self-described "peaceful" nuclear program, which it said is not needed by such an energy-rich country and appears to cover for an effort to acquire nuclear weapons.
  • RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 6, Number 9 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 03 Mar 2003 -- MOST OFFICIALS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT MUNICIPAL-COUNCIL ELECTIONS... / ...LOW VOTER TURNOUT FULFILLS EXPECTATIONS... / ...TRYING TO LEARN FROM DEFEAT, REFORMISTS LOOK AHEAD... / ...CONSERVATIVE DAILIES CRITICIZE CAMPAIGNS... / ...PARTIES DIVIDED OVER ELECTIONS... / ...RADIO FARDA ACCUSED OF CAMPAIGNING FOR REFORMIST PARTY / WAS TERRORISM BEHIND KERMAN PLANE CRASH? / IRGC RESTRICTS MONTAZERI'S ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE / ANOTHER GOVERNMENT CRITIC ARRESTED IN IRAN / IRANIAN JOURNALIST JAILED, THEN HOSPITALIZED / JUDICIARY REJECTS REPORTS OF JEWS' AMNESTY / CONVICTED OPINION POLLSTERS GET HOME LEAVE / UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS VISIT IRANIAN PRISONS / HEALTH MINISTRY ANNOUNCES HIV/AIDS FIGURES / SUPREME LEADER WARNS TABRIZIS OF U.S. AMBITIONS... / ...URGES VIGILANCE AGAINST FOREIGN PLOTS IN SISTAN VA BALUCHISTAN / KHAMENEI CAUTIONS AGAINST SMUGGLING / PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY IN SYRIA AND LEBANON / TEHRAN ANGRY OVER ARGENTINE TERRORISM ALLEGATIONS / LEBANESE COURT: AL-QAEDA FIGHTERS TRAVEL THROUGH IRAN / HEKMATYAR'S WORLD SHRINKS / IRGC COMMANDER SAYS IRAN IS NEXT AFTER IRAQ
  • Text: Two Indicted on Export Control Act, Iranian Embargo Charges Washington File 05 Mar 2003 -- Two Taiwanese residents have been charged with conspiring to buy U.S. military technology for illegal export to Iran, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a March 4 press release.



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