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Publication Date: March 2007

Publication / Source: Foreign Affairs

Author: Ray Takeyh

To tame the growing power of Iran, Washington must eschew military options, the prospect of conditional talks, and attempts to contain the regime. Instead, it should adopt a new policy of détente. By offering the pragmatists in Tehran a chance to resume diplomatic and economic relations with the United States, it could help them sideline the radicals and tip Iran's internal balance of power in their favor.

Publication Date: March 2007

Publication / Source: Oxford Research Group

Author: Dr. Frank Barnaby

This report is an assessment of: --What is known of Iran's nuclear programme. --How that programme could be diverted towards military ends. --Whether military strikes would succeed in preventing Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

Publication Date: 2007/03/15

Publication / Source: The Institute for Science and International Security

Author: Jacqueline Shire and David Albright

There is scant publicly available data to allow for detailed analysis of Iran’s centrifuge enrichment program. At the same time, there appears to be at least some consensus among experts familiar with Iran’s nuclear program that technical difficulties have stymied the program since Iran began operating its first cascade of 164 centrifuges in early 2006.

Publication Date: 2007/03/20

Publication / Source: The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

Author: David Albright and Paul Brannan

ISIS has obtained recent commercial imagery from GeoEye’s OrbView-3 satellite of the Arak heavy water reactor and adjacent heavy water production plant in Iran. The imagery from February 25, 2007 shows further construction of buildings adjacent to the reactor vessel. Iran continues to build the 40 MW heavy water reactor at Arak, despite repeated international requests that Iran discontinue this project.