Crunch time on Iran: Five ways out of a nuclear crisis

Crunch time on Iran: Five ways out of a nuclear crisis

Policy brief
Mark Leonard
01 August 2005

For the last few weeks Iran has been openly flirting with the idea of developing nuclear weapons. The European Union, under the leadership of Britain, France and Germany, has been trying to stop it. The two sides look set to head for a showdown later this year. When the negotiations last went to the brink in May 2005, the so-called EU-3 promised to produce a formula to defuse the stand-off by August.

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