IAEA Report: Iran, August 2009

International Atomic Energy Agency | 2009-08-28

When this IAEA report was realeased in August 2009, it represented the most comprehensive assessment that the IAEA had conducted in months of Iran's nuclear program and Tehran's degree of cooperation with the agency and U.N. Security Council resolutions. "Although the Aug. 28 report notes some new developments, its basic message is that Iran has not appreciably changed its main nuclear policies despite years of negotiations, U.N. sanctions, and its recent presidential elections," Richard Weitz wrote in World Politics Review. "As a result, as in the past, both advocates and opponents of harsher sanctions on Tehran can cite some of the agency's findings to support their positions."