Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2008

The Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007

Danielle Pletka

April 2008

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

On April 8, Iran announced that it was expanding its plans to enrich uranium, despite demands from the United Nations (UN) Security Council that it halt the program. Iran will start installing six thousand more centrifuges in addition to its three thousand existing ones. In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, AEI vice president Danielle Pletka reviewed recent U.S. and UN policy toward Iran; examined the evidence on sanctions, arguing that they are taking a toll on Iran's economy; and looked at what other options we now have for dealing with Iran.