Iran and the IAEA’s Earlier Attempts Following the discovery of the undeclared construction of a large underground nuclear related facility in Natanz and the existence of highly enriched uranium in 2002, the Iranian nuclear crisis began in full force. The following summer, the then-director of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, presented a report to the IAEA Board of Governors in which “failures and breaches of safeguards by Iran” were cited without ambiguity and additional inspections were recommended
negotiations with Iran. Rouhani’s election brought back Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, who had previously negotiated with the E3. In September, just months after the Iranian election, the outline of a deal (later known as JPOA) the between the two states broke surface. “According to The Guardian, the secret talks ‘were the reason why United States and Iran were able to strike a deal quickly after Rouhani’s victory’” (Entessar and Afrasiabi 36). In addition, by summer 2013, Iran had completed the
OPTION 1: Continue to support the P5+1 Alliance and hold the IRI to strict accountability of all provisions outlined in the JCPOA. Utilizing public diplomacy, communicate that violations to the JCPOA will be seen as cause for the U.S. to seek an exit from the JCPOA. Make clear that significant violations would also introduce all instruments of statecraft to deter Iran from becoming a nuclear weapon state. If the IRI continues to meet its obligations, and prior to the expiration of JCPOA enrichment
especially Iran, has enough nuclear material to where they pose a threat on other countries is very important. Countries throughout the world have expressed concern about the amount of nuclear power Iran is in possession of. The Iran nuclear program has been a real worry for many years because enriched uranium might be used to create weapons of mass destruction. Over the last few years, many steps have been made to restrict the amount of nuclear material that Iran has in their possession. The P5+1 countries
Supreme Leader Khamenei; moderate President Rafsanjani; and reformists President Khatami, the Iran nuclear program received support in the 1990s from China, Russia, and the A.Q. Khan network. China and Iran signed an agreement in 1990 and subsequently imported a metric ton of uranium hexafluoride, a feed gas for gas centrifuges, from China in 1991. According to certain safeguard agreements in place, Iran was supposed to report the transfer to the IAEA but they did not. However, support from the
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Retain or Abolish? Currently, The USA position about Iran nuclear deal has been one of the most controversial topics in the political and international affairs fields. People are taking sides about what should be the best decision for the USA government. Should the USA tear up the deal or stay in it? During these past days, the news is so focused on the subject ‘’Iran,’’ here are some headlines: Scuttling the Iran deal will lead to another North Korea, how the Iran deal prevents
decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal is profoundly unwise and against national interests. Even those who initially opposed it are now convinced that pulling out of it would be ill-advised. On July 14, 2015, Iran entered into the JCPOA agreement with the P5+1 to regulate Iran’s nuclear program. Though the agreement fosters a sunset clause which allows Iran to open its currently closed avenues to nuclear capability in ten years, it is important to acknowledge that Iran has agreed to robust inspections
Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 began in 2006, to assure that P5+1 world powers that Iran would not develop nuclear weapons and to guarantee that Iran that its rights to enrich nuclear fuel for civilian purposes under the third pillar of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to which it is a party, was esteemed. During the time of the negotiation, the United States, the European Union and others enforced some agreements on Iran, which have been referred to by President Rouhani
In July 2015, negotiations aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and heading off a regional nuclear arms competition resulted in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5+1 countries. The P5+1 countries include China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The JCPOA requires deep reductions in Iran’s existing uranium enrichment capacity and the redesign of its planned plutonium-production reactor, which together effectively
nuclear research reactor and power plants for Iran. At this time the United States and the rest of the world believed that Iran was interested in nuclear power as a means to provide a power source to help modernize Iran. Seventeen years later Iran is one of 51 nations to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In 1979 the Iranian government is overthrown and Shah Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini comes to power and ends the nuclear power program. During the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980’s their view on the