This site provides free access to a report by Sir Richard Dalton et al. which was published by Chatham House in December 2008. ISBN 978 1 86203 208 8. The 42 page report critically assesses the current security situation in Iran, issues relating to Iran and the development of nuclear weapons and future directions for UK foreign policy towards Iran.

While The Speculation Over Iran's Nuclear Capabilities Continue, Who Has The Capability Now? The conversation continues over when Iran will have the capability to deploy and deliver a nuclear warhead, or to possibly provide a nuclear device to a terrorist organization for delivery by other means. The idea that a terrorist state will at some point have this type of destructive power at it'...

The launching of Iran's first domestically produced satellite comes as the U.S. and other nations are concerned about Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

The noise out of a nuclear Iran grows stronger along with the toothless rhetoric from the west! Did I say a nuclear Iran or very soon to be nuclear Iran? Take your pick as that terrorist nation steadily marches forward under the watchful eye of the west and the IAEA. All the while remember that Israel sits ready to take this global matter into its own hands as the prospect of a nuclear Iran is a n...

According to its State TV, Iran has successfully launched a second satellite into space, called 'Rashad' or observance. "Our glorious scientists successfully put Iran's first image-collecting satellite into orbit," the TV report said. The satellite, which weighs about 34 pounds has been designed to orbit the earth 15 times a day at the height of 160 miles, and was put into orbit by ...

Iran has enough fissile material for a bomb: Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more

The game continues... Iran said Monday it has banned two U.N. nuclear inspectors from entering the country because they disclosed to the media the contents of a "false" report on the country's disputed nuclear program before the U.N. nuclear watchdog reviewed it. A report posted on the Web site of the state broadcasting company quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organi...

Nothing to worry about just the babbling of the paranoid right.... From the FT In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than previously thought. They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility...

Homeland Security and the Iranian Reach Secretary of State Clinton leaves today on her first trip to South America as a member of the Obama administration. The purpose is to try and gain support for new sanctions against Iran aimed at stopping the development of a nuclear capability. It is generally feared around the world that Irans nuclear development program is not for peaceful use, but rather ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency's probe into the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor, which Israel bombed last year, has been hobbled by a mysterious lack of satellite footage. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei referred to the absence of commercial satellite footage of the site after Israel's attack last year as "baffling." Adding to the intrigue, the Associated Press quotes unnam...