Foreign Suppliers to Iran's Nuclear Development

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Foreign Suppliers to Iran's Nuclear Development

Mining

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  • In 7/97, US intelligence sources reported that Russia was advising and assisting Iran in the mining of uranium ore. Russia denied the reports.[1]
  • In 1/95, Russia and Iran agreed to discuss the construction of a uranium mine.[2]
  • China's Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology aided Iran with uranium exploration.[3]

Notes:

  1. R. Jeffery Smith, "Administration Concerned about Russia's Nuclear Cooperation with Iran," Washington Post, July 3, 1997, p. A3.

  2. Michael Eisenstadt, Iranian Military Power: Capabilities and Intentions, (Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1996), p. 106.

  3. U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Testimony of Gary Milholin before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, May 6, 1997.

Prepared by Michael Barletta and Christina Ellington, November 1998
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.


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