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Iran Dossier Press Coverage

  • Iran 'reaches key nuclear goal' Iran Dossier CoverA recent International Institute for Strategic Studies report said if Iran could operate 3,000 centrifuges smoothly, one bomb could be produced within nine to 11 months.
  • Iran's Bogus Bomb Threat Iran Dossier CoverAccording to the "Iran Dossier" prepared by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 3,000 first-generation Iranian centrifuges operating perfectly for approximately one year...
  • Iranian nuclear issue putting region at risk Iran Dossier CoverThe outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 and the nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan and India in May 1998 pushed Iran to consider the ownership of nuclear weapons as an authorized capital...
  • Timeline: Iran Nuclear Crisis Iran Dossier CoverSept., 2005: A study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies concludes that Iran is still several years away from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.  Speaking before the U.N....
  • Iran Declares Another Nuclear Advance Iran Dossier CoverAn operational reactor would put Iran among fewer than a dozen countries with heavywater technology. Among the other countries are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the...
  • Iran calls the shots on nuclear tango with US Iran Dossier CoverHistorically, Washington has considered - but abandoned - plans to eliminate emerging nuclear programmes from the onset, be it in the former Soviet Union during the 1950s, China in the 1960s or North...
  • Time's Up For Iran Iran Dossier CoverIran has signaled its intent to build a nuclear weapon, and soon. The International Institute for Strategic Studies last year estimated it might be "several years" before Iran got a bomb....
  • Council vote unlikely to end Iran impasse Iran Dossier CoverScholars at the London-based think tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says Iran is at least ten years from producing enough highly enriched uranium for a single nuclear device.
  • No Evidence of Secret Enrichment by Iran Iran Dossier CoverLondon's International Institute for Strategic Studies produced a report last year referring to suspicions that the P-2 centrifuge was "the nucleus of a secret enrichment programme"....
  • Iran: What the U.S. Isn't Telling Iran Dossier CoverSo when can it be expected for Iran to develop its nuclear bomb, if that is the intention? Time frames are rather sketchy considering several factors. Because nuclear development for energy purposes...
  • How to build a bomb Mark FitzpatrickBy Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation
  • Diplomatic, not aid sanctions more effective Dr. Chipman is in the country to confirm the participation of Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Shangri-La Dialogue 2006, a conclave of defence ministers from the Asia-Pacific region to be...
  • Chances rising of military strike on Iran Iran Dossier Cover"I think it's more than just putting pressure on Iran. I think it's a real possibility," argued Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). "The...
  • British Report Analyzes West's Failure Iran Dossier CoverMark Fitzpatrick, director of Non-Proliferation Programme for International Institute for Strategic Studies" took part in a lecture. He said that Iran would probably acquire a nuclear weapon...
  • Iran Advances Could Speed Nuclear Process Iran Dossier CoverA private group, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, also said in a recent report that the fact that Iran had hedged on providing information about the P-2 centrifuges raised...
  • Iran claim on nuclear plan raises new fears Iran Dossier CoverSo far his answers have been vague, investigators say. Iran, for its part, has said virtually nothing about its P-2 program. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, an arms analysis group...
  • Iran and the nuclear spin cycle Iran Dossier CoverAccording to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, with 1000 working centrifuges at Natanz, it would take just over two years to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a...
  • Iran and 'The Bomb' Iran Dossier CoverIran's nuclear programme consists of the following; a 5 MW research reactor (bought from the US in the 1960s), a 30 KW miniature neutron source reactor, a 1000 MW reactor currently being constructed...
  • Iran expanding, reinforcing atomic sites Iran Dossier Cover"It will be very difficult to erase the knowledge they have achieved," said Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear affairs expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
  • Iran follows Saddam in defying the UN Iran Dossier CoverA dossier published last year by the International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated that, under perfect conditions, 3,000 centrifuges could turn out 25kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU),...