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U.S., U.K. Discuss Referring Iranian Nuclear Situation to United Nations Security Council
U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton last week talked with British officials about when to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, said a U.S. official (see GSN, July 20). The official would not comment on when the United States would seek a referral, but noted that the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors is set to meet in September and in November. “Bolton consulted with the British about what might be the appropriate time to move it to the U.N. ... unless they (the Iranians) change their record of noncompliance,” the officials said. “We are talking to the Brits about precisely that. ... It’s all in the conditional,” said another official (Arshad Mohammed, Reuters, July 20). Meanwhile, Israel’s intelligence chiefs warned today in an annual report to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s security cabinet that Iran would have a nuclear weapons capability by 2007, Agence France-Presse reported. Israeli military intelligence chief Gen. Aharon Zeevi Farkash said earlier this month he believed Iran would be able to build a nuclear weapon by 2007. Today’s report is further endorsed by all of the country’s main intelligence agencies (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, July 21).
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