Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 10/2009

In Their Own Words: Making Sense of the International Community's Nuclear Deadline with Iran

Max Mealy

July 2009

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

After nearly a month of international focus on the civil unrest in Iran following the June 12 presidential elections, the G8 summit in Italy brought renewed global attention to Iran's nuclear program; the summit's leaders promised to reassess international outreach to Iran at the September G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. The following statements from U.S., European, and Israeli government officials on the status of Iran's nuclear program highlight the differing interpretations of Iran's nuclear deadline.