ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Iran's enrichment program and explores the efforts to verify military intentions. All states had the sovereign right to produce nuclear weapons, a right states would give up in an effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The most persistent requirement in the Iran negotiations has been the suspension of uranium enrichment. The Bush administration insisted on suspension as a precondition for negotiations. The E3 saw suspension of enrichment as the final "objective" guarantee. The Iranians accepted only temporary and voluntary suspension. Uranium enrichment, even on a large scale, is not proof of military intentions. A number of countries enrich and are not suspected of harboring clandestine nuclear weapons programs. The chapter concludes with what is known on the Iran nuclear program and focuses on the fundamental questions in terms of the European Union (EU) vision of effective multilateralism: Do the same rules apply to all? Are international rules respected?.
