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Early Oil Issues and Historical Background
US,
Public Boradcasting System, Frontline, "Terror and Tehran,"
Chronology: US-Iran Relations, 1906-2002, 2005
Multinational
Oil Corporations and U.S. Foreign Policy - REPORT together with individual
views, to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, by the
Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations;
(Washington, January 2, 1975, US Government Printing Office), Chapter 3, "Foreign
Policy and Antitrust: The Cartel Case and the Iranian Consortium"
Winston
Churchill, The Second World War, Volume III, The Grand Alliance
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950), Chapter 26, "Persia and the
Middle East: Summer and Autumn 1941," pp. 423-432.
Excerpt
from J.H. Bamberg on Soviet Interest in Iranian Oil During World War II, The
History of the British Petroleum Company, Volume 2, The Anglo-Iranian
Years, 1928 (Cambriage: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 250-257.
"American
Oil Interests in the Near East," in Bruce R. Kuniholm, The Origins
of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran,
Turkey, and Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), Chapter
III, "The Iranian Context," pp. 178-192
Herbert
Feis, Three International Episodes, "Episode Number Two: The Government
Gives Attention to the Oil of the Middle East" (New York: W.W. Norton
& Company, 1946), pp. 93-190
The
International Petroleum Cartel, Staff
Report to the Federal Trade Commission, released through Subcommittee on Monopoly
of Select Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate, 83d Cong., 2nd sess (Washington,
DC, 1952), Chapter 1, "The World's Petroleum Resources," pp. 5-20.
The
International Petroleum Cartel, Staff
Report to the Federal Trade Commission, released through Subcommittee on Monopoly
of Select Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate, 83d Cong., 2nd sess (Washington,
DC, 1952), Chapter 2, "Concentration of Control of the World Petroleum
Industry," pp. 21-36.
The
International Petroleum Cartel, Staff
Report to the Federal Trade Commission, released through Subcommittee on Monopoly
of Select Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate, 83d Cong., 2nd sess (Washington,
DC, 1952), Chapter 3, Development of Joint Control over Foreign Oil,"
pp. 37-46.
The
International Petroleum Cartel, Staff
Report to the Federal Trade Commission, released through Subcommittee on Monopoly
of Select Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate, 83d Cong., 2nd sess (Washington,
DC, 1952), Chapter 4, "Joint Control Through Common Ownership--The Iraq
Petroleum Co., Ltd.," pp. 47-112
The
International Petroleum Cartel, Staff Report to the Federal Trade Commission,
released through Subcommittee on Monopoly of Select Committee on Small Business,
U.S. Senate, 83d Cong., 2nd sess (Washington, DC, 1952), Chapter 5, "Other
Common Ownerships in the Middle East," [The Creation of Aramco and the
Kuwait Oil Co., Ltd.], pp. 113-136
The
International Petroleum Cartel, Staff
Report to the Federal Trade Commission, released through Subcommittee on Monopoly
of Select Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate, 83d Cong., 2nd sess (Washington,
DC, 1952), Chapter 6, "Joint Control Through Purchase and Sale of Oil
in the Middle East," pp. 137-162
Dean
Acheson's account of the crisis over Iran, 1946
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"Motion Pictures--The Film Two Cities," May 16, 1950.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"Priority Aims and Objectives of the USIE Program in Iran Calls for Enhancing
U.S. Prestige and Demonstrating Communist Fallacies," June 5, 1950.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the Department of State.
"Proposed New Program for USIE, Iran," July 6, 1950.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the Department of State.
[Voice of America Transmitters in Bahrain and Iran], September 19, 1950.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the Department of State.
[U.S.-Iranian Joint Propaganda Efforts], October 19, 1950.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable to the Department of State. [Iran's Propaganda
Director and the Voice of America], December 8, 1950
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"Motion Pictures--Pro-Soviet Feature Film North Star," December
28, 1950.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the Department of State.
[Iranian Propaganda Director Dismissed], January 6, 1951.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the Department of State.
[Appointment of New Iranian Propaganda Director], January 10, 1951
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"Notes on Expanded Program for Iran" [Includes Memorandum], January
12, 1951.
Department
of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Memorandum of Conversation.
"Anglo-American Cooperation in the Psychological Field in the Arab States
and Iran" [Attached to Cover Memorandum Dated April 2, 1951], March 30,
1951.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the Department of State.
[Kurdish Voice of America Broadcasts], August 6, 1951.
United
States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"Motion Pictures: Cooperation of American Newsreels," November 10,
1951.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the Department of State.
[Filming of Iranian Army Celebration], November 20, 1951
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the Department of State.
[Iranian Oil Policy], November 21, 1951.
Department
of State Airgram from James E. Webb to the United States Embassy, Iran. [Newsreel
Use in Iran], December 11, 1951.
Report
of John Edgar Hoover (Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation) to the Acting
Attorney General relative to the Report of the Federal Trade Commission on
the International Petroleum Cartel-May 7, 1952.
Memorandum
for the Attorney General Relative to a Request for Grand Jury Authorization
to Investigate the International Oil Cartel, June 24, 1952
Report
of the Attorney General to the National Security Council relative to the Grand
Jury Investigation of the International Oil Cartel--January 1953
Report
by the Departments of State, Defense and the Interior on Security and International
Issues Arising from the Current Situation in Petroleum--January 1953
Robert
Engler, The Politics of Oil: A Study of Private Power and Democratic Directions
(Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1961), Chapter 4, "Toward
World Government," pp. 65-79
United
States Embassy, Lebanon Memorandum from Nestor C. Ortiz to the Department
of State. "Middle East Reaction to Federal Trade Commission 'Report on
the International Petroleum Cartel' and the U.S. Department of Justice Suit
against Designated International Petroleum Companies" [Includes Embassy
Memorandum and Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company (TAPLINE) Report], January 13,
1953.
Internal
State Department Memoranda--Analysis of Middle Eastern Oil Concessions and
Their Implications for US. Foreign Policy by Richard Funkhouser, 3 July 1953
US-Iranian Relations, 1951-53
Interview
with Sir George Middleton on the Crisis in Iran, 1951-53, Iranian Oral History
Project, Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
United
States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"IE: Local Newspaper Item on USIE Radio Scripts," January 14, 1952.
United
States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"I.E.: Local Newspaper Items of USIE Radio Scripts," January 21,
1952.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the Department of State.
[Closure of Provincial Foreign Cultural Centers], January 30, 1952.
United
States Consulate. Mashhad (Iran) Cable to the Department of State. [Closure
of Foreign Information and Cultural Centers], January 30, 1952.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the Department of State.
[Closure of Foreign Information and Cultural Centers], February 3, 1952.
Department
of State Cable from Dean Acheson to the United States Embassy, Iran. [State
Department Recommends Neutral Tone], July 18, 1952.
Department
of State Cable from Dean Acheson to the United States Embassy, Iran. [Media
Guidance for Iran], July 28, 1952.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the Department of State.
[U.S. Propaganda Program in Iran], September 6, 1952.
Harvard
University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, "United States Foreign
Policy: Iran, A Case Study," February 1997.
CIA
Clandestine Service History, "Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran,
November 1952-August 1953," March 1954, by Dr. Donald Wilber.
Department
of State, Division of Public Studies Report. "U.S. Public Opinion on
Iran," November 10, 1952.
National
Security Council, NSC 136/1, "United States Policy regarding the Present
Situation in Iran," Top Secret Report, November 20, 1952
The
New York Times, "Secrets
of History: The CIA in Iran" 2000
United
States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Edward C. Wells to the Department of State.
"IIA: Motion Pictures: Iranian Governmental Document Proposing Mobile
Unit Operation Changes," January 7, 1953.
United
States Embassy, Lebanon Memorandum from Nestor C. Ortiz to the Department
of State. "Middle East Reaction to Federal Trade Commission 'Report on
the International Petroleum Cartel' and the U.S. Department of Justice Suit
against Designated International Petroleum Companies" [Includes Embassy
Memorandum and Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company (TAPLINE) Report], January 13,
1953.
Department
of State Memorandum from Wilson S. Compton to David K.E. Bruce. "Colloquium
on Islamic Culture to Be Held in September, 1953, under the Joint Sponsorship
of the Library of Congress and Princeton University" [Attached to Cover
Note Dated January 16, 1953; Includes Enclosure], January 13, 1953.
State
Department, "First Progress Report on Paragraph 5-a of NSC 136/1, 'U.S.
policy regarding the present situation in Iran'," Top Secret Memorandum,
March 20, 1953
State
Department, "Measures which the United States Government Might Take in
Support of a Successor Government to Mosadeq," Top Secret Memorandum,
March 1953
United
States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Loy Henderson to the Department of State.
"Attaching Memorandum Entitled 'Report on the Use of Anti-Soviet Material
within Iran during Period Covered by Last Two Years'," May 29, 1953.
Department
of State Airgram from John Foster Dulles to the United States Embassy, Iran.
[Placement of Stories in U.S. Media], June 26, 1953.
United
States. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Plans Memorandum. [Radio
Report on Coup Plotting in Iran], July 7, 1953.
US,
Memorandum for the President (discussing behavior of the Shah, Gen. Zahedi
and Winston Churchill immediately after the coup in Iran), Memorandum from
the Department of State, top secret, circa August 1953
State
Department, "Proposed Course of Action with Respect to Iran," Top
Secret Draft Memorandum, August 10, 1953
CIA,
"Zendebad, Shah!": The Central Intelligence Agency and the Fall
of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq, August 1953," Top Secret
Draft History, History Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, June 1998.
Department
of State Cable from Theodore C. Streibert to the United States Embassy, Iran.
[Revitalized Propaganda Campaign for Iran; Attached to Transmittal Sheet],
September 11, 1953.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the United States Information
Agency. [Media Guidance regarding Iran], September 15, 1953.
United
States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the United States Information
Agency. [Propaganda Focused on U.S. Aid to Iran], September 19, 1953.
United
States Information Service. Tehran (Iran) Despatch from Edward C. Wells to
the United States Information Agency. "USIS Program--Iran," October
2, 1953.
United
States Information Agency Cable to the United States Embassy, Iran. [Embassy
Materials Requested for U.S. Media], October 13, 1953.
Department
of State Letter from John H. Stutesman, Jr. to Loy Henderson. [Propaganda
Situation following Coup in Iran], October 28, 1953.
Department
of State, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Memorandum from C.D. Huyler
to John H. Stutesman, Jr. "Your Letter of October 28 to Ambassador Henderson,"
[On Iran] October 29, 1953.
United
States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Loy Henderson to the Department of State.
"Use of Material in American Publications concerning Iranian Situation"
[Includes Attachments], November 7, 1953.
US,
CIA Clandestine Service History, "Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran,
November 1952-August 1953," March 1954, by Dr. Donald Wilber.
Memorandum
of William L. Fugate for Files on the Settlement on the International Petroleum
Cartel Case, April 12, 1957
Memorandum
of Wilbur L. Fugate to W. Wallace Kirkpatrick, Department of Justice, on International
Oil Cartel Case Consent Judgments, November 10, 1960
Memorandum
of Wilbur L. Fugate to Robert A. Bicks, Justice Department, on the Consent
Decrees in the International Oil Cartel Case, November 17, 1960
Letter
of Senator Joseph O'Mahoney (D-Wyoming) to President-Elect John F. Kennedy
Urging a Review of the Judgments in the International Oil Cartel Case, December
6, 1960
Memorandum
of Wilbur L. Fugate to Lee Loevinger, Department of Justice on the Consent
Decrees in the International Oil Cartel Case, April 13, 1961.
"Ancient
History": U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly
of Intervention by Sheldon L. Richman, Policy Analysis No. 159, August
16, 1991
National
Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book, No. 28, "The Secret CIA History
of the Iran Coup, 1953," 29 November 2000
Paul
Foot, "Iran was our puppet state," The Guardian (UK), May
2, 2000
Dan
De Luce, "The spectre of Operation Ajax: Britain and the US crushed Iran's
first democratic government. They didn't learn from that mistake," The
Guardian (UK). August 20, 2003
Oxford
Research Group,
"Chronology of Iran's Nuclear Programme"
The Islamic Republic of Iran
BBC, The
Story of the Iranian Revolution
Iran and Nuclear Weapons
1994
Greg
J. Gerardi and Maryam Aharinejad, "An Assessment of Iran's Nuclear Facilities,"
The Nonpoliferation Review, Spring/Summer, 1994
1995
David
Albright, "An Iranian bomb?:Iran's purchases from Russia were to have
included a facility for enriching uranium. And it was only the latest of Iran's
efforts to acquire a fissile-material capacity," Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists, July/August 1995 pp. 20-26 (vol. 51, no. 04)
David
Albright, "The Russian-Iranian Reactor Deal," The Nonproliferation
Review, Spring-Summer 1995
1996
"Iran's
Atomic Programs and Foreign Propaganda," Hamshahri (Morning
Daily), August 22, 25, 1996, Pages: 11, 11, By: Jalil Roshandel &
Saeedeh Lotfian
1997
Stephen
C. Fairbanks, "A New Era For Iran?" Middle East Policy,
Volume V, January 1997, Number 3
Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft and Richard Murphy, "Differentiated Containment,"
Foreign Affairs, May/ June 1997
Voice
of America, US Secretary of State Albright on US-Iran Relations after the
Election of President Khatami, September 14, 1997
1998
Richard
K. Betts, "The New Threat of Mass Destruction," Foreign Affairs,
January/ February 1998
Houman
A. Sadri, "Trends in the Foreign Policy of Revolutionary Iran,"
Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 15, no. 1 (April 1998)
Bates
Gill, "Chinese Arms Exports to Iran," Middle East Review of International
Affairs Vol. 2, No. 2 (May 1998)
Andrew
Koch and Jeanette Wolf, "Iran’s Nuclear Facilities: a Profile,"
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 1998
Jaswant
Singh, "Against Nuclear Apartheid," Foreign Affairs, September/October
1998
1999
Dick
Cheney, "Speech at the Institute of Petroleum 1999 Autumn Lunch,"
Full text of speech at the Institute of Petroleum Autumn lunch, 1999
Kenneth
Katzman, The Atlantic Council of the United States, "U.S.-Iranian Relations:
An Analytic Compendium of U.S. Policies, Laws and Regulations," Occasional
Paper, December 1999
2000
Geoffrey
Kemp, "Iranian Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Policy"," Director
of Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center, Washington, DC, January
2000
W.
Seth Carus, "Iran and Weapons of Mass Destruction," Middle East
Review of International Affairs, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall 2000)
2001
Suzanne
Maloney, "America and Iran: From Containment to Coexistence," The
Brookings Institution, Policy Brief #87, August 2001
James A.
Bill, "The Politics of Hegemony: The United States and Iran," Middle
East Policy, September 2001
James
Ridgeway & Camelia Fard, "With Friends Like These: 'Terrorists' Share
Space With Press in D.C. Building," The Village Voice, December
5 - 11, 2001
2002
Michael Donovan,
"Iran, Israel, and Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East," Center
for Defense Information, 14 February 2002
Paul
Richter, "U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms," LA Times,
March 9, 2002
US, President
George W. Bush, The National Security Strategy of the United States of
America, 17 September 2002
Dany Shoham, "Poisoned
Missiles: Syria's Doomsday Deterrent," Middle East Quarterly,
Volume IX: Number 4, Fall 2002
Francis
A. Boyle, "US Foreign Policy Toward the Iran/Iraq War," Counterpunch,
December 14, 2002
2003
Faisal
Islam, "Iraq nets handsome profit by dumping dollar for euro," The
Observer, February 16, 2003
Shirley
A. Kan, Specialist in National Security Policy, Foreign Affairs, Defense,
and Trade Division, "China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
and Missiles: Policy Issues," Congressional Research Service, Updated
February 26, 2003
Massimo
Calabresi, "Iran's Nuclear Threat," Time, March 08, 2003
Sam
Dealey, "Iran ‘terrorist’ group finds support on Hill,"
The Hill, 2 April 2003
Robert
Einhorn, "China and Non-Proliferation," The National Interest,
April 2, 2003
Raphael
Perl, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research
Service, "Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy," 11 April
2003
Uzi Arad,
"Russia and Iran's Nuclear Program," Jerusalem Center for Public
Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 26 28 April 2003
George
Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, "Dealing With Iran’s Nuclear Challenge," April 28, 2003
Carl Conetta,
"What Colin Powell Showed Us: The End of Arms Control and the Normalization
of War," Project on Defense Alternatives, Briefing Report #14,
5 May 2003
Leonard
S. Spector, "Iran's Secret Quest for the Bomb," YaleGlobal,
16 May 2003
International
Atomic Energy Agency, "Implementation of the NPT safeguards agreement
in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Report by the Director General, 6 June
2003
Robert
Fox, "Special forces 'prepare for Iran attack'," Evening Standard,
17 June 2003
Barry
Rubin, "Lessons from Iran," Washington Quarterly, 26:3 (Summer
2003), pp. 105–115.
Michael
Jasinski, "Russia's Nuclear and Missile Technology Assistance to Iran,"
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, June 26, 2003
Kenneth
M. Pollack, "Securing the Gulf," Foreign Affairs, July/August
2003
Philippe
Le Billon and Fouad El Khatib, "From Free Oil to 'Freedom Oil'? Terrorism,
War and US Geopolitics in the Persian Gulf," Geopolitics, July
2003
Muhammad
Sahimi, "Iran's Nuclear Program: 6-Part Series," Payvand,
02 October 2003 - 09 September 2005
Mohammad
Sahimi, "Iran's Nuclear Program. Part I: Its History," Payvand
News, 2 October 2003
Michael
Ledeen, "Into the Quagmire:Important days ahead for Iran," National
Review Online, October 14, 2003
International
Atomic Energy Agency, "Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement
in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Report by the Director General, 10
November 2003
"North
Korea and Iran: Test Cases for an Improved Nonproliferation Regime?"
by Joseph Cirincione and Jon Wolfsthal, Arms Control Today, December
2003
Inger
Sethov, "Iran's Nobel Winner Hits Out at U.S. Foreign Policy," Common
Dreams Newscenter, 10 December 2003
2004
Graham
Allison, "How to Stop Nuclear Terror," Foreign Affairs, January/February
2004
William
Clark, "Revisited - The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War With Iraq:
A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth," January
2003, Revised March 2003, Post-war Commentary January 2004
Mehrdad
Valibeigi, "Law of Unintended Consequences: US Sanctions and Iran’s
Hardliners," Middle East Report Online, January 28, 2004
"US
dissuades Sinopec from bidding in Iranian oil-field," People's Daily
Online, 6 February 2004
Gaurav Kampani,
"Proliferation Unbound: Nuclear Tales from Pakistan," Center for
Nonproliferation Studies, February 23, 2004
International
Atomic Energy Agency, "Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement
in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Report by the Director General, 24
February 2004
Vice
Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, U.S. Navy, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency,"Current
and Projected National Security Threats to the United States," Statement
For the Record Senate Armed Services Committee, 26 February 2004
Reuel
Marc Gerecht, "Going Soft on Iran: The temptation of America’s foreign
policy 'realists'," The Weekly Standard, 8 March 2004
"The
Global Consequences of Iran’s Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons," draft
paper by George Perkovich and Silvia Silvia Manzanero, April 2004
STATEMENT
BY H. E. MR. DANESH-YAZDI, AMBASSADOR AND CHARGE D'AFFAIRES OF THE PERMANENT
MISSION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN ON THE DRAFT U.N. RESOLUTION ON NON-PROLIFERATION,
IRANIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO THE UNITED NATIONS BEFORE THE SECURITY
COUNCIL, April 22, 2004
Anoushiravan
Ehteshami, "Iran’s International Posture After the Fall of Baghdad,"
Middle East Journal, Volume 58, No. 2, Spring 2004
"Defusing
the Nuclear Middle East," Bennett Ramberg, Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, May/June 2004
Middle
East Review of International Affairs,
"Iran: Twenty-Five Years Later," Volume 8, No. 2 - June 2004
Iran
Daily
interview with Dr. Ali Salehi, 9 June 2004
Terry
Macalister, "Iran takes on west's control of oil trading," The
Guardian (UK), June 16, 2004
"Iran’s
Continuing Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction," Testimony by John
R. Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, before
the House International Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East
and Central Asia, Washington DC, June 24, 2004
Jeffrey Record,
"Nuclear Deterrence, Preventive War, and Counterproliferation,"
Cato Institute, 08 July 2004
David
Ignatius, "Lost Chances in Iran," Washington Post, July
9, 2004
Sammy Salama
and Karen Ruster, "A Preemptive Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities:
Possible Consequences," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, August 12,
2004
John R. Bolton,
Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, "Preventing
Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons," Remarks to the Hudson Institute
Washington, DC, August 17, 2004
National
Security to Nationalist Myth: Why Iran Wants Nuclear Weapons
by Charles C. Mayer, Naval Postgraduate School Master's Thesis, September
2004
Ashton
B. Carter, "How to Counter WMD," Foreign Affairs, September/October
2004
The
Guardian
(UK), "'No proof' of Iranian nuclear weapons programme," September
14, 2004
John
Barry and Dan Ephron, "War-Gaming the Mullahs," Newsweek,
27 September 2004
Richard
L. Russell, "Iran in Iraq’s Shadow: Dealing with Tehran’s NuclearWeapons
Bid," Parameters, Autumn 2004
Barton
Gellman and Dafna Linzer, "Unprecedented Peril Forces Tough Calls: President
Faces a Multi-Front Battle Against Threats Known, Unknown," Washington
Post Staff, October 26, 2004
William
Clark, "The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target: The Emerging Euro-denominated
International Oil Marker," Center for Research on Globalization,
27 October 2004
International
Atomic Energy Agency,"Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement
in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Report by the Director General, 15
November 2004
Elaine
Sciolino, "Exiles Add to Claims on Iran Nuclear Arms," New York
Times, November 18, 2004
Paris
Agreement between the EU and Iran, 26 November 2004
James
Fallows, "Will Iran Be Next?" The Atlantic Monthly, December 2004
Robert
E. Hunter, "The Iran Case: Addressing Why Countries Want Nuclear Weapons,"
Arms Control Today, December 2004
Sasan
Fayazmanesh, "The EU, US, Israel and Iran: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
and the 'Mullahs'," CounterPunch, December 3, 2004
Robin
Wright and Peter Baker, "Iraq, Jordan See Threat To Election From Iran:
Leaders Warn Against Forming Religious State," Washington Post,
December 8, 2004
2005
Seymour
Hersh, "The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon can now do in secret,"
The New Yorker, Issue of 2005-01-24 and 31, Posted 2005-01-17
Paul
Kerr, "Iran-EU Nuclear Negotiations Begin," Arms Control Today,
January/February 2005
Iran’s
Nuclear Programme: A Collection of Documents Presented to Parliament (UK)
by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Command
of Her Majesty, January 2005
Council
on Foreign Relations, Transcript, "Transition 2005: U.S. Policy Toward
Iran," January 12, 2005
Julian
Borger in Washington and Ian Traynor, "Now US ponders attack on Iran:
Hardliners in Pentagon ready to neutralise 'nuclear threat' posed by Tehran,"
The Guardian (UK), January 18, 2005
Joost R.
Hiltermann, "Iran’s Nuclear Posture and the Scars of War,"
Middle East Report Online, January 18, 2005
Richard
Sale, "USAF playing cat and mouse game over Iran," World Peace
Herald, January 26, 2005
Jacob G. Hornberger,
"An Anti-Democracy Foreign Policy: Iran," The Future of Freedom
Foundation, January 31, 2005
The
New York Times, "Iranian Terrorist Group Seeks Legitimacy in U.S.,"
February 24, 2005
Professor
Paul Rogers, "The Bush Administration, Insurgencies and Iran," Oxford
Research Group, March 2005
Joseph
Cirincione, "Iran and Israel's Nuclear Weapons," The Globalist,
March 11, 2005
International
Crisis Group,
"Iran in Iraq: How Much Influence?"21 March 2005
Institute
for Science and International Security, ISIS Imagery Brief: Kalaye Electric,
March 31, 2005
Michael
T. Klare, "Oil, Geopolitics, and the Coming War with Iran," TomDispatch.com,
11 April 2005
US,
Public Broadcasting System, Frontline, "Iran: Going Nuclear,"
May 2005
Testimony
by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Vice-President for Studies George
Perkovich, Hearing on "Iran: Weapons Proliferation, Terrorism and Democracy,"
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 19 May 2005
R. Nicholas
Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, "United States' Policy
Toward Iran," Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Washington, DC, May 19, 2005
Michael
Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, "Consider the Source: The State Department
says MEK is a terror group. Human Rights Watch says it’s a cult. For
the White House, MEK is a source of intelligence on Iran," Newsweek,
May 20, 2005
Stephen
Zunes, "Undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: It Didn't Start
with the Bush Administration," Foreign Policy in Focus, 08 June
2005
International
Atomic Energy Agency, "Statement of the DDG-SG on 16 June 2005 at the
Board of Governors’ Meeting: Implementation of Safeguards in the Islamic
Republic of Iran, 16 June 2005
Aspen
Institute
(Berlin), "The Iranian people need to know that the US and Europe are
not oblivious to their situation," June 17 - Elections in Iran, 17 June
2006
Scott
Ritter, "US war with Iran has already begun," Aljazeera,
23 June 2005
US,
Department of the Treasury, Executive Order 13382, "Blocking Property
of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters"; the
Weapons of Mass Destruction Trade Control Regulations (Part 539 of Title 31,
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William
R. Clark, "Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian
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Professor
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only one thing worse than the United States exercising a military option.
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R. Timmerman, "When Making a Revolution, Allies Matter," FrontPageMagazine.com,
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Annual
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2, 2006
International
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Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, Interview with the BBC Persian service, 8 February
2006
Gareth
Porter, "Analysts: Fear of US Drove Iran's Nuclear Policy," Antiwar.com,
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Republic News Agency, "Ahmadinejad:
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Republic News Agency, "Iran
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2006--13 February
US,
National Military Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chairman
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2006--17 February
Jean du Preez,
"Defusing The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Carrot and Stick Approach,"
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 17 February 2006
Nikolai Sokov,
"The Prospects of Russian Mediation of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis,"
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 17 February 2006
2006--19 February
Gregory
Beals, "A missed opportunity with Iran: Islamic country said to have
notified U.S. in '03 of willingness to negotiate over WMDs, but ex-officials
say Bush team didn't want to deal," Newsday, February 19, 2006
Speech
by Jacques CHIRAC, President of the French Republic, during his visit to The
Stategic Air and Maritime Forces at Landivisiau / L'Ile Longue,
Présidence de la République française, Landivisiau /
L'Ile Longue / Brest (Finistère), 19 January 2006
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Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Options Available
to the United States to Counter a Nuclear Iran," Testimony before the
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Jill
Marie Parillo and Revati Prasad, "Iran's Programs to Produce Plutonium
and Enriched Uranium," Carnegie Fact Sheet, February 2006
Jing-dong
Yuan, "China and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis," China Brief,
The Jamestown Foundation, Volume VI, Issue 3, February 1, 2006
Professor
Paul Rogers, "Iran: Consequences of a War," Oxford Research Group,
February 2006
2006--23 February
US,
Department of State, Washington Files, "Global Initiative Aims
To Boost Nuclear Energy, Nonproliferation, 23 February 2006
2006--27 February
IAEA
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2006--28 February
Lionel
Beehner, "Russia’s Nuclear Deal with Iran," Council on Foreign
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2006--3 March
Michael
Karpin, "Will Israel Blast the Iranian Bomb?" The American Enterprise,
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George
Perkovich, "Premature Capitulation," Carnegie Endowment for International
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Paul
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R. Posen, "We Can Live With A Nuclear Iran," MIT Center for International
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Bill
Brubaker, "Top U.S. Military Official: No Evidence of Iran Involvement
in Iraq," Washington Post, 14 March 2006
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Pepe
Escobar, "In The Heart of Pipelineistan," Asia Times, 17
March 2006
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Jessica
Tuchman Mathews, "Speaking to Tehran, With One Voice," The New
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E. Doyle and Sara Kutchesfahani, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Time
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David
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Raas and Austin Long, "Osirak Redux? Assessing Israeli Capabilities to
Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities," MIT Center for International Studies,
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Udi
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Alternatives, Problematic Choices," Strategic Assessment (Israel),
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S. Shapir, "Iran's Strategic Missiles," Strategic Assessment
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Kenneth
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Seymour
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J. Broad and David E. Sanger, "Iran raises eyebrows of nuclear inspectors,"
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Hersh, "The Iran Plans," The New Yorker, 17 April 2006
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John
Tkacik, "Confront China’s Support for Iran’s Nuclear Weapons,"
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Thomas
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the mullahs' nuclear program," The Weekly Standard, 04/24/2006,
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2006--25 April
Asia
Times Online, 'Tehran insider tells of US black ops," April 25, 2006
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Pepe
Escobar, "What's really happening in Tehran," Asia Times,
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2006--27 April
Ali
Nouri Zadeh, "Iran's Secret Plan if Attacked by US Codenamed 'Judgement
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Council
on Foreign Relations, "Levi: More Pessimistic About Negotiated Settlement
With Iran on Nuclear Issues," Interviewee: Michael A. Levi, Fellow for
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Stephen Zunes, "The
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Patrick
Clawson, "Iran’s Defiance: The West Has More Options than Just the
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Jonathan
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2006--1 May
Dennis
Ross, "A New Strategy on Iran," Washington Post, May 1, 2006
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Ismail, "Washington’s next military crusade is beckoning,"
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Porter, "Iran Pushes for Talks With US on Nukes, Security," Antiwar.com,
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2006--3 May
Unclassified
Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of
Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January-31 December
2004 Director of National Intelligence Released May 2006
Edward
N. Luttwak, "Three Reasons Not to Bomb Iran—Yet," Commentary,
May 2006
2006-7 May
Letter
from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to President George W. Bush, Published
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2006--8 May
Simon
Henderson, "Assessing the Iranian Nuclear Threat with Reference to Pakistan's
Experience," The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch
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Council
on Foreign Relations, "Perkovich: Bush Should Engage Iranian President
in Dialogue, Not Back Away," Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting
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Daniel
Pipes, "Deterring Tehran," FrontPageMagazine.com, May 10,
2006
Al
Bawaba
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2006
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Pierre
Goldschmidt, "Is the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime in crisis? If so,
why? Are there remedies?" Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations
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2006--12 May
Gareth
Porter, "Iran Nuclear Conflict Is About US Dominance," Anitwar.com,
May 12, 2006
Graham
Allison and Richard Haass, "How to Deal with the Challenge from Iran,"
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 12, 2006
2006--16 May
Henry
A. Kissinger, "A Nuclear Test for Diplomacy," Washington Post,
May 16, 2006
2006--17 May
Patrick
Clawson, Deputy Director at The Washington Institute, on "Iran's Motives
and Strategies: The Role of the Economy" delivered at a Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations hearing on May 17, 2006
2006--18 May
Mahan
Abedin, "Dissent and defection: An Iranian confession," Asia
Times Online, 18 May 2006
Senator
Richard Lugar's Opening Statement, Hearing on "Iran’s Political/Nuclear
Ambitions and U.S. Policy Options," Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
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2006--19 May
Jamie
Glazov, "Symposium: Iran: To Strike or Not to Strike?" FrontPageMagazine.com,
May 19, 2006
Tom Barry,
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Paul
Starobin, "Of Mullahs And MADness," The National Journal,
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2006--20 May
Gareth
Porter, "Reversing Policy, U.S. 'Froze' Iran Talks in March," Antiwar.com,
May 20, 2006
2006--21 May
Steven
Simon and Ray Takeyh, "Iran’s Iraq Strategy," The Washington
Post, May 21, 2006
The
Associated Press,
"Olmert: Iran Close to Atomic Bomb Know-How," 21 May 2006
2006--22 May
James
Carney, "Why Not Talk?: A missive from Tehran stirs a call for direct
negotiations over Iran's nukes. Here's why the U.S. isn't tempted," Time
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2006--25 May
Gareth
Porter, "Iran Proposal to US Offered Peace With Israel," Anitwar.com,
May 25, 2006
Council
on Foreign Relations, "Kerr: U.S. Should Offer Not to Seek Iran Regime
Change," Interviewee: Paul Kerr, Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting
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2006--26 May
Emile
El-Hokayem and Matteo Legrenzi, "The Arab Gulf States in the Shadow of
the Iranian Nuclear Challenge," The Henry L. Stimson Center, 26 May 2006
Gareth
Porter, "Iran offered 'to make peace with Israel'," Asia Times,
May 26, 2006
2006--27 May
Jim
Lobe, "Talking to Tehran, not at it," Asia Times, May 27,
2006
2006--30 May
Gareth
Porter, "Khamenei in Control and Ready to 'Haggle'," Anitwar.com,
May 30, 2006
2006--31 May
Statement
by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Iran, Washington, DC, May 31, 2006
Tony
Karon, "Behind Washington's Turnabout on Talks with Iran," Time,
31 May 2006
James
Phillips, "Giving Iran One Last Chance," The Heritage Foundation,
WebMemo #1101, May 31, 2006
Council
on Foreign Relations, "Parsi: Iran Unlikely to Halt Nuclear Enrichment
Unless the United States Agrees to Direct Talks," Interviewee: Trita
Parsi, Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, May 31, 2006
2006--1 June
The
Jerusalem Post, "Eye
on Iran: Failure of the theocratic state," 1 June 2006
Andrew
K. Semmel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy and
Negotiations, " Is the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Still Attainable?"
Remarks at the United Nations Foundation, Washington, DC, June 1, 2006
Michael
Rubin, "Damage Is Done: The Bush administration’s bad Iran move,"
National Review Online, 1 June 2006
Wall
Street Journal,
"Condi's Iran Gambit: Ahmadinejad gets the direct talks he wanted,"
June 1, 2006
Dr.
Farhang Jahanpour, "Iran's Nuclear Threat: Exploring the Politics,"
Oxford Research Group, June 2006
BBC
News Online,
"Iran cautious over US talks offer," 1 June 2006
Mark
Tran, "World powers close to Iran proposal," The Guardian
(UK), June 1, 2006
Michael
Herzog, "Iranian Public Opinion on the Nuclear Program: A Potential Asset
for the International Community," Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, Policy Focus #56, June 2006
Kenneth
M. Pollack, "Iran: Three Alternative Futures," The Middle East Review
of International Affairs, June 2006
Philip
Gordon, "Will America Attack Iran?" Prospect Online (June
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2006--2 June
The
Times of India,
"Practice what you preach: Blix to US," 2 June 2006
Mark
Heinrich, "Iran defiant on continuing nuclear work," Swissinfo,
2 June 2006
James
Phillips, "U.S. Policy and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge," Heritage
Lecture #942, The Heritage Foundation, June 2, 2006
Paul
Joseph Watson, "Former CIA Analyst Says Iran Strike Possibly Set For
June Or July," Information Clearing House, 2 June 2006
Sammy Salama
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Impasse: Give Negotiations A Chance," June 2, 2006
2006--3 June
BBC
News Online,
"Defiant Iran agrees to study deal," 3 June 2006
Glenn
Kessler, "After Vienna, Both Sides Can Tally Their Gains," Washington
Post, June 3, 2006
BBC
News Online,
"Iran unmoved by nuclear pressure," 3 June 2006
Aljazeera,
"Defiant
Iran rejects Western pressure," 3 June 2006
Ehsan
Ahrari, "Tehran wants more than talks," Asia Times, 3 June
2006
Jonathan
Steele, "If Iran is ready to talk, the US must do so unconditionally:
Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be "wiped off the map","
Centre for Research on Globalization, 3 June 2006
National
Council of Resistance of Iran, "U.S. can reverse Iran's power,"
03 June 2006
Essay
by Reza Aslan, "A giant awakes: The major powers yesterday ruled out
military action against Iran, but in truth it has never been an option against
the Middle East's most influential force," The Guardian (UK), June 3,
2006
Vladimir
Radyuhin, "Military option ruled out: Russia," The Hindu,
3 June 2006
2006--4 June