Iran Press Kit

   UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2009       

• Expert Sources
  
  
• How to Stop the Threat of a Nuclear Iran
  • Non-Military Strategies to Confront the Iranian Threat
  • The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Latest Developments and Next Steps. Testimony to Congress (Ilan Berman)
  • Economic and Diplomatic Strategies for Isolating Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Regime
  • Halting Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program (courtesy of JCPA)
  • Facing the Iranian Threat (Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi) 
  • Peaceful Options on Iran 
  
  
• Iran's Nuclear Violations
  • Summary: International Atomic Energy Agency Reports on Iran [NEW]
  • Timeline: International Efforts to Stop Iranian Nuclear Proliferation [NEW]
  • A History of Iran’s Defiance of Nuclear Negotiations [NEW]
  • Violations of U.N. Sanctions and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty  [NEW]
  • Arab Leaders Voice Concerns about Iran and its Nuclear Program [NEW]
  • Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses
    
    
• Iran's Threat to the World 
  • Iran’s Nuclear Program Sparks Nuclear Arms Race Throughout Arab, Muslim World [NEW]
  • The Threat of Iranian Missile Development and Export [NEW]
  • Iranian Government Structure and Influence on Nuclear Policy
  • Iran: Using Oil as a Weapon
  • Iran’s Threat to Europe
  • Iran’s Nuclear Capacities [NEW]
  • Emboldened by Impunity: The History and Consequences of Failure to Enforce Iranian Violations of International Law (Orde F. Kittrie)
  • Iran's Race for Regional Supremacy (courtesy of JCPA)
  • Race and the Nuclear Race: Anti-Semitism in Iran (courtesy of Eldad Pardo)
  • Defining Jew-Hatred Down (courtesy of Matthias Kuentzel)
  • Iran Intensifies Influence in Latin America [Portuguese]
    
    
• Iran-Backed Terrorism
  • Iran: Leading State Sponsor of Terror Across the Globe [NEW]
  • Iran: Training and Arming Terrorist Groups that Target Israel [NEW]
  • Iranian State Sponsorship of Terror: Testimony to Congress (Matthew Levitt)
  • Breakdown of Iran’s Financial Backing of Terrorist Groups [NEW]
  • Hezbollah’s Youth Movement: The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts
  • Hezbollah as a Strategic Arm of Iran
  • Timeline: Terror Attacks by Hamas Since Israel's Gaza Withdrawal
    Fact Sheet: Iran's Support of Hamas [NEW]
    
    
    
• Iran's Human Rights Violations
  • Showing Jailed Americans, Iran TV Cites Confessions (courtesy The Washington Post)
  • Human Rights Watch World Report on Iran
  • Amnesty International Report on Iran
  • New Amnesty International Report on Iran: "Iran: end execution by stoning"
  •  Iran’s Post-Election Human Rights Abuses [NEW]
    
    
•  Iran's Weapons Arsenal 
  • Iranian Missile Guide and Map of Threats
  • The Nuclear Fuel Cycle (courtesy BBC) 
  • Iran-Supplied Missiles Used in the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel War
  • Iran's Nuclear Programme (map)
  • Atomic Agency Concludes Iran is Stepping Up Nuclear Work (courtesy The New York Times)
    
    
• What Iran's Leaders are Saying 
  • What Iranian Leaders Really Say About Doing Away With Israel (courtesy of JCPA)
  • Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 
  • Other Iranian Leaders
  • President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [NEW]
    • Clip showing Ahmadinejad denigrating 9/11
    • President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
      • Biographies
        • The World According to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (courtesy inFocus)
        • Profile: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (courtesy BBC)
        • Bio: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (courtesy The Jerusalem Post)
      • Extremist Religious Views and Doctrines
      • Ahmadinejad Says Light Surrounded Him during 2005 U.N. Speech
      • Ahmadinejad’s Demons (courtesy The New Republic)
      • Referral of Iranian President on the Charge of Incitement to Commit Genocide (courtesy of JCPA)
        
        
• Polls on Iran  
  • Ahmadinejad's Popularity Fading Fast
  • Tracking Elite Opinion on Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iran and General Threats to the U.S
  • Topline: Iran and Investing in Terrorist-Sponsoring States
  • Americans Support Sanctions Against Iran Even if that Increases Gas Prices
  • Tracking U.S. Attitudes Towards Israel and Iran
    
    
• Evidence of Effectiveness of Sanctions
  • Iranian Economists Blame President for Economic Woes Despite Huge Oil Revenues (courtesy Associated Press)
  • Iran's Oil Industry: A House of Cards?
  • Unrest Grows Amid Gas Rationing in Iran (courtesy International Herald Tribune)
    

• Iran-Free/Terror-Free Investing Resources
                      *Information Courtesy of Divest Terror 
  •  List of Companies doing business with Iran
  •  State-by-State Update on Iran Divestment Legislation
  • Does your state invest in companies doing business with terror-sponsoring countries?  See the report “The Terrorism Investments of the 50 States” (PDF)
  •  How can you find out if you’re invested in companies helping Iran?
    • Download this letter (.DOC) 
  • Send a letter to your elected officials about terror-free investing
    • Download this letter (.DOC) from the Center for Security Policy
  • FAQ on DivestTerror.org
  • Terror-Free Investing: A Non-Violent Tool for Countering the Iranian Threat
  • What You Can Do on Iran
  • Recent Media Coverage 
  • Statement by Debra Burlingame at Divest Terror Press Conference

• TIP's Iran Conferences
  • A Closer Look at Iran's Foreign and Domestic Policies and Its Nuclear Program
  • In the Eye of the Storm: Iran in Global Perspectives; watch selected lectures
  • Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas: Money, Martyrdom and the Mahdi Conference
    
    
• Petition to U.N. secretary-general
  
• Statements by Presidential Candidates on Iran