ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the Iran sanctions regime’s political origins, the interests among permanent members and what this means for committee governance. It explores the bargaining process over several Council resolutions which imposed a complex web of sanctions measures up until 2010, without recourse to a committee. The chapter shows how the Council affected decision-making by referring sanctions violators’ designations to the committee. It also explores an alternate route for overcoming coordination problems in sanctions regimes: In the field of proliferation and ballistic missile related commodity sanctions, the Council used Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime export trigger lists as external focal points. The chapter discusses key findings in light of the committee governance thesis. The non-proliferation dispute surrounding Iran’s nuclear program emerged in August 2002 when information surfaced that Iran has constructed secret nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak.
