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Iran Special Weapons - References

• Full text of Iran-5+1 agreement in Geneva 24 Nov 2013

United Nations Security Council

• SECURITY COUNCIL TOUGHENS SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN, ADDS ARMS EMBARGO, WITH UNANIMOUS ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION 1747 (2007) UN Security Council 24 Mar 2007
• Statement by the President of the Security Council UN Security Council 29 Mar 2006

IAEA

• GOV/2025/24: Verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 (2015) IAEA 31 May 2025
• GOV/2014/43: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 05 Sep 2014
• GOV/INF/2014/19: Status of Iran's Nuclear Programme in relation to the Joint Plan of Action IAEA 20 Aug 2014
• Gov/INF/2014/16: Status of Iran's Nuclear Programme in relations to the Joint Plan of Action IAEA 20 Jul 2014
• GOV/INF/2014/14: Status of Iran’s Nuclear Programme in relation to the Joint Plan of Action IAEA 20 Jun 2014
• GOV/2014/28: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 23 May 2014
• GOV/2014/10: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 20 Feb 2014
• GOV/2013/56: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 14 Nov 2013
• GOV/2013/40: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 28 Aug 2013
• GOV/2013/27: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 22 May 2013
• GOV/2013/6: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 21 Feb 2013
• GOV/2012/55: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 16 Nov 2012
• GOV/2012/37: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 30 Aug 2012
• GOV/2012/23: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 25 May 2012
• GOV/2012/9: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 24 Feb 2012
• GOV/2011/65: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 08 Nov 2011
• GOV/2011/54: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 02 Sep 2011
• GOV/2011/29: 24 May 2011 - Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 24 May 2011
• GOV/2011/7: 25 February 2011 - Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 25 Feb 2011
• GOV/2010/62: 23 November 2010 - Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 23 Nov 2010
• GOV/2010/46: 6 September 2010 - Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 06 Sep 2010
• GOV/2010/28: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 31 May 2010
• GOV/2010/10: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 18 Feb 2010
• GOV/INF/2010/2: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 10 Feb 2010
• GOV/2008/59: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 19 Nov 2008
• GOV/2008/15: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 26 May 2008 [PDF Version]
• GOV/2008/4: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006) and 1747 (2007) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 22 Feb 2008
• GOV/2007/58: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006) and 1747 (2007) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 15 Nov 2007
• GOV/2007/489: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 30 Aug 2007
• GOV/2007/8: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 22 Feb 2007
• GOV/2006/64: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 14 Nov 2006 -- Report by the Director General
• IAEA Letter on Iran Report by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy IAEA 12 Sep 2006
• GOV/2006/53: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 31 Aug 2006 -- Report by the Director General [PDF Version]
• GOV/2006/27: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 28 Apr 2006 -- Report by the Director General [PDF]
• GOV/2006/15: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 27 Feb 2006 -- Report by the Director General [PDF]
• GOV/2006/14: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Resolution adopted on 4 February 2006 IAEA 04 Feb 2006
• Draft resolution on the implementation of the NPT safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IRNA 01 Feb 2006
• ElBaradei delivers introductory statement to Board of Governors (PART I) IRNA 24 Nov 2005
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in Iran (PART II) IRNA 24 Nov 2005
• GOV/2005/87: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 18 Nov 2005 --Report by the Director General
• GOV/2005/77: 'Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran' IAEA 24 Sep 2005 -- Resolution adopted on September 24, 2005, IAEA Board of Governors
• GOV/2005/67: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 02 Sep 2005 -- Report by the Director General [PDF]
• GOV/2004/83: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 15 November 2004 -- Report by the Director General [PDF 224 Kb]
• Transcript of the Director General´s Press Statement on IAEA Inspection in Iran, Libya & the Republic of Korea IAEA 13 Sep 2004
• GOV/2004/79: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Resolution adopted by the Board on 18 September 2004 IAEA 13 Sep 2004 [PDF]
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 1 Sep 2004 [PDF 154 Kb]
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Resolution adopted by the Board on 18 June 2004 IAEA 18 Jun 2004
• GOV/2004/27: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran IAEA 1 Jun 2004 [PDF]
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran International Atomic Energy Agency 13 Mar 2004 [PDF]
• GOV/OR.1094: Implementation of the NPT safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Report by the Director General - EXCERPT FROM THE RECORD OF THE 1094th MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS 13 March 2004
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Report by the Director General International Atomic Energy Agency 24 Feb 2004 [PDF]
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Report by the Director General IAEA 10 November 2003
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran Report by the Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors GOV/2003/63 -- 26 August 2003 [PDF]
• Implementation of the NPT safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Report by the Director General IAEA 06 Jun 2003 [PDF 216 Kb]

Other Documents

• Information on the Iranian Regime - Clandestine "TABA" Site for Production of Centrifuge Parts. Presented by Soona Samsami and Alireza Jafarzadeh. 7 April 2011
• Information on an Iranian regime strategic secret nuclear enrichment site at Behjatabad-Abyek Strategic Policy Consulting 09 Sep 2010 -- "Today, according to information obtained by Iran 's main opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), we would like to make public for the first time exclusive details on a major top-secret and strategic nuclear enrichment site in the town of Abyek, 120 kilometers west of the Iranian capital, Tehran . The Behjatabad-Abyek nuclear enrichment site is code-named 311, and is near Qazvin."
• NAM issues statement in support of Iran nuclear case IRNA 17 Sep 2006
• Questioning Iran's Pursuit of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - Iran's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities: A Pattern of Peaceful Intent US Department of State Sep 2005 -- Briefing slides presendted by the US to foreign diplomats in Vienna [PDF 2.6 MB]
• Iran's Nuclear Programme: A Collection of Documents UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs January 2005 [PDF 2.56 Mb]
• Iran-EU Agreement on Nuclear Programme 14 November 2004

Statements

• Statement by the President The White House 27 Sep 2013 -- "Just now, I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over Iran’s nuclear program. I reiterated to President Rouhani what I said in New York -- while there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward, and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution. "
• Full text of President Ahmadinejad's speech at UN IRNA 24 Sep 2010
• Joint declaration by Iran, Turkey and Brazil IRNA 17 May 2010
• President: Nuclear bomb, crime against humanity, not for defense IRNA 03 May 2010 -- Full text of the Iranian president's address at NPT Conference.
• Full text of President Ahmadinejad's address before UNGA IRNA 26 Sep 2007
• President Ahmadinejad addresses students at Columbia University IRNA 25 Sep 2007
• Full text of Aghazadeh's statement to IAEA session IRNA 17 Sep 2007
• Full text of President Ahmadinejad's message to American people IRNA 29 Nov 2006
• President calls for Iran-Germany cooperation in promoting peace IRNA 28 Aug 2006
• Transcript: Zarif reaffirms civilian nature of Iranian nuclear program IRNA 31 Jul 2006
• Press Conference on Iran US Department of State 31 May 2006
• Statement by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice US Department of State 31 May 2006
• President Ahmadinejad's letter to George Bush IRNA 10 May 2006
• Iran protests to UN secretary-general against US threats IRNA 24 Mar 2006
• Mottaki calls on Europe to accept Iran`s legitimate right to nuclear energy Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Feb 2006
• President releases statement on defense of Iran's nuclear rights IRNA 05 Feb 2006
• Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Response to the Statement from the Five Nuclear States Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs 01 Feb 2006
• Iran is Building a Secret Tunnel in Tehran for Nuclear Weapons Research and Development Statement by Alireza Jafarzadeh - President, Strategic Policy Consulting, Inc. National Press Club, Washington, DC January 31, 2006 -- "According to my sources inside the Iranian regime, sources that have been proven accurate in the past, Iran is constructing a top-secret tunnel as part of its nuclear weapons program".
• Full text of President Ahmadinejad's speech at General Assembly IRNA 18 Sep 2005
• Iran's statement at IAEA board meeting IRNA 12 Aug 2005
• Statement on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Director-General for International Political Affairs, Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mr. Amir H. Zamaninia - 13 Mar 2004
• Communication of 5 March 2004 from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran concerning the Report of the Director General contained in GOV/2004/11 INFCIRC/628 Date: 5 March 2004
• Nuclear weapons don't solve problems Ayatullah ul-Uzma Khamenei, 6 August 2003

Testimony

• Iran's Continuing Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction Testimony by Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John R. Bolton to the House International Relations CommitteeSubcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia 24 June 2004

Reports

• Iran's Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terrorism Monitoring Act of 2022—Assessment Regarding the Regional and Global Terrorism of the Islamic Republic of Iran- November 2024 ODNI Nov 2024, Released 05 Dec 2024
• Iran's Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terrorism Monitoring Act of 2022 - November 2024 ODNI Nov 2024, Released 05 Dec 2024
• Iran's Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terrorism Monitoring Act of 2022—Assessment Regarding the Regional and Global Terrorism of the Islamic Republic of Iran - July 2024 ODNI Released 23 Jul 2024
• Iran's Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terrorism Monitoring Act of 2022 - July 2024 ODNI Released 23 Jul 2024
• NIC Assessment (NICA) - Iran's Hardline Regime in Transition Presents Diversified Challenges for the United States ODNI - NIC Jul 2022, Released 18 Mar 2024
• National Intelligence Estimate: Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities Office of the Director of National Intelligence November 2007, Released 03 Dec 2007 [PDF Version]
• Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy Released 23 Aug 2006 -- "This report provides an unclassified assessment of the Iran question to help the American public understand the seriousness of the Iranian threat and to discuss ways U.S. intelligence collection and analysis against Iran must be improved."
• CHECKING IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS Henry Sokolski and Patrick Clawson - January 2004 Army War College 's Strategic Studies Institute. This book is the result of nearly 2 years of planning and analyses commissioned by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)to reconsider U.S. efforts to arrest Iran 's nuclear weapons ambitions.
• Iran's Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Implications of US Policy Anthony C. Cain, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF -- Air War College Maxwell Paper No. 26 MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA April 2002
• Iran and the Arabian Gulf: Threat Assessment and Response Mark S. Haskins; Clinton K. Holmes (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1998
• Foreign Assistance to Iran's Nuclear and Missile Programs by Mark Gorwitz - October 1998
• Rogue or Rational State?: A Nuclear Armed Iran and US Counterproliferation Strategy Richard M. Perry; Matthew R. Schwonek (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997 -- Are the mad mullahs in charge driving Iran toward a course of global terrorism with an "Islamic Bomb"? Or, is the nuclear course within Iran a well thought out process, carefully calculated to maximize strategic leverage in order to gain and maintain regional hegemony?
• Iran: Headed for a National Deterrent? Exploring U.S. Missile Defense Requirements in 2010: What Are the Policy and Technology Challenges? Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis April 1997
• PROLIFERATION: THREAT AND RESPONSE - 1997
• Iran and Iraq: A Prediction for Future Conflict Francis V. Xavier Air Command and Staff College 1997

Links

• Iran's Nuclear Programme @ ArmsControlWonk
• Iran Watch Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control -- Repository of open source information about Iran's suspected mass destruction weapon programs
  
  
• The Internal Debate in Iran: How to Respond to Western Pressure Regarding Its Nuclear Program By Ayelet Savyon* MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis Series June 17, 2004 No.181 - In response to increasing international pressure on Iran on the matter of its nuclear program, two major approaches are emerging in the Iranian media regarding the question of how to repel the Western threat to Iran's nuclear activities.
• Plan B: Using Sanctions to End Iran's Nuclear Program George Perkovich and Silvia Manzanero, Arms Control Today, Volume 34, issue 4, May 2004 If Iran fails to address existing concerns over its nuclear activities and is found in noncompliance, the international community will be compelled to respond.
• Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Challenge 27 April 2004 - This Carnegie Paper by George Perkovich addresses the current challenges presented by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and explores possible steps the United States might take to address this crisis. If US officials were willing and able to undertake bold innovations in US policy, Iran could be persuaded to reverse course.
• The centrifuge connection By David Albright & Corey Hinderstein Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists March/April 2004, Volume 60, No. 2, pp. 61-66
• TOWARDS A NON DISCRIMINATORY NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY VERSUS IRAN: SOME HINTS by Maurizio Martellini, University of Insubria and Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy and BCSIA-Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US and Riccardo Redaelli, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milano, Italy, Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV) Como, Italy - August 8, 2003
• Debating Iran's Nuclear Aspirations Shahram Chubin and Robert S. Litwak The Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2003, Iran prefers first and foremost," Cubin says, "to work towards what is defined as a 'nuclear option'-attaining all the required materials and technology, which will enable it, if it wishes to do so, to reach the stage of producing nuclear weapons within a very short time."
• Iranian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Experience M.Ghannadi-Maragheh, World Nuclear Association Annual Symposium - 3-5 September 2003 - London
• Officials say Israel will destroy Natanz plant if Iran operates it Mark Hibbs Nucleonics Week, July 3, 2003
• NPEC releases analysis of Iran's Atomic Bomb Making Capabilities May 15, 2003
• Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Dr. M. Ghannadi-Maragheh, World Nuclear Association Annual Symposium 4-6 September 2002 - London
• Iran's Burgeoning WMD Programs by Michael Rubin Middle East Intelligence Bulletin (MEIB) (March/April 2002)
• Former Iranian President Rafsanjani on Using a Nuclear Bomb Against Israel Special Dispatch Series - No. 325 - Iran, January 3, 2002
• C.I.A. Says an Iranian A-Bomb Can't Be Ruled Out By JAMES RISEN WITH JUDITH MILLER The New York Times (17 January 2000)
• IRAN Tracking Nuclear Proliferation, 1998 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Iran's Nuclear Facilities: a Profile by Andrew Koch and Jeanette Wolf 1998 by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies
• An Iranian bomb? by DAVID ALBRIGHT Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - July/August 1995
• AN ASSESSMENT OF IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES by Greg J. Gerardi and Maryam Aharinejad The Nonproliferation Review: Spring-Summer 1995, Volume 2 - Number 3
• Iran's Nuclear Program: Myth and Reality by Kenneth R. Timmerman USPID - atti del VI convegno di Castiglioncello [1995]
• Israeli Report on Nuclear Targeting Priorities JPRS-TAC-95-004-L - 13 January 1995
• NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION: Spotlight shifts to Iran DAVID ALBRIGHT and MARK HIBBSBulletin of the Atomic Scientists March 1992
• AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] Iran: A Future Nuclear Power?
• IRANIAN-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR TRADE - CASE NUMBER: 163 Trade Environment Database [TED] School of International Service at American University
• THE ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF IRANIAN-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TRADE
• THE PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION USCENTCOM