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eration Treaty (NPT) in 1968, Iran was in fact pursuing nuclear weapons. For more than fifteen years, intelligence and on-the-ground inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed nuclear facilities, imports of nuclear technology, and research that had no civilian use. The scale of Iran's programs that could
nd the destruction of an Iranian civilian airliner and its passengers in 1988. Iranians called the US the Great Satan. The US named Iran as part of the Axis of Evil. For most of these decades, even a EFTA00651266 handshake between officials was taboo and an Iranian who advocated improving the relationship cou
d getting ready to start up the game again for a whole new bunch of suckers." North Korea launched two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 and expelled the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors from the country in 2002 and 2009. Despite those events, the George W. Bush administration negotiated with the EFTA_R1_00229381
an could not accomplish after fighting him for eight years. The fact that the Bush administration openly listed Iran as one of the three members of the Axis of Evil and otherwise indicated that it could be subject to military attacks alarmed Tehran. (Similar developments led Qaddafi to give up his program of W
ration Treaty (NPT) in 1968, Iran was in fact pursuing nuclear weapons. For more than fifteen years, intelligence and on-the-ground inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed nuclear facilities, imports of nuclear technology, and research that had no civilian use. The scale of Iran's programs EFTA_R1_022
d the destruction of an Iranian civilian airliner and its passengers in 1988. Iranians called the US the Great Satan. The US named Iran as part of the Axis of Evil. For most of these decades, even a handshake between officials was taboo and an Iranian who advocated improving the relationship could find himself
Entities connected to both the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Axis of Evil

Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Tunisia
LOCATION
Geneva
LOCATION
Middle East
LOCATION
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
PERSON
AIPAC
ORGANIZATION
Department of Justice
ORGANIZATION
Hassan Rouhani
PERSON
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
PERSONthe Palestinian Authority
ORGANIZATION