The Uranium Core of Obama’s Iran Strategy
This post originally appeared at Talking Warheads: In dismissing the Tehran Declaration in May, US officials said the fuel swap proposal doesn’t get to the heart of the issue. The core issue, according to four UN Security Council resolutions and two successive US administrations, is Iran’s enrichment program. That’s why Uranium Intelligence Weekly thought it […]
When is a Nuclear Program Not a Nuclear Program? (UPDATE)
It should come as no surprise that, when dealing with a topic like nuclear weapons and Iran, there’s just a lot of wrong information out there. For example: take this Council on Foreign Relations overview of the Feb 18, 2010 IAEA report on Iran’s safeguards. These IAEA reports are pretty routine, and CFR is a […]
Bloggingheads: Iran’s Nuclear Motives
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2441633&w=500&h=330&fv=] Our good friend Richard Parker, from the American Foreign Policy Project (of Joint Experts’ Statement fame), recently went on BloggingheadsTV over at the New York Times to debate Jacqueline Shire on the real reason Iran is intent on enriching uranium. I think he did a marvelous job, don’t you?