Communications

On Wednesday, the Jerusalem Press Club hosted an online interview with Dr. Ephraim Asculai, a former senior official at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who warned about Iran’s intentions, called on the international community to do more, and cautioned the world to “be wary” of the Islamic Republic and its leaders. “Iran...

Former IDF intelligence chief Tamir Hayman on Tuesday said that aspects of blocking Iran and its proxies’ progress in nuclear and precision weapons are far more difficult now than in the past. Hayman is currently managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies. Speaking at a conference honoring the late INSS scholar Emily Landau, he said there were similar...

Tensions have been rising in the Middle East, mostly related to Iran, in particular to its advances in the nuclear area. Whether by design, or as the result of developments, Iran has been gathering its nuclear capabilities at the starting post and was almost ready to start production of a nuclear explosive device, just waiting for the leadership’s decision, and the subsequent...

Tehran's nuclear ambitions, which are documented in archives, can only be delayed through insistent inspection activity by the international community.

Strangely enough, almost all the facts cited by US President Donald Trump and by the supporters of the Iran deal (JCPOA) are correct. Moreover, there is little disagreement about the fact that Iran lied about its nuclear weapons ambitions and that it probably never abandoned them. The big difference is in the unwillingness of the JCPOA supporters to acknowledge that the JCPOA...

Had Iran wanted to prove it had abandoned any nuclear weapons-related program it should have consented to opening up its archives, sites and materials to international inspections.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) and Iran remains a controversial and potentially dangerous deal. During the election campaign, president-elect Donald Trump vowed to scrap it. Trump is no doubt correct that the JCPOA is deeply flawed, and did not achieve what it originally set out...

On December 2, 2015, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano presented to the IAEA member states his long-awaited report on Iran’s Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) of its nuclear program. This issue had been outstanding since November 2011, with Iran refusing to cooperate in its resolution until mid-2015.

On Monday, September 21, 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA ) director general proudly announced that “certain IAEA safeguards activities were carried out at the particular location at the [Iranian] Parchin site. These included the taking of environmental samples.” He then added that he himself with his deputy visited the site but saw an empty...

Although the agreement with Iran is apparently a done deed, serious issues exist and will persist if not treated properly through additional understandings. Left untended, the dangerous implications of this deal are likely to be felt far into the future. When looking back over the past few months of debate over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), one tangible...