 Iraninan Nuclear Ambitions after the NIE: Current Knowledge and Policy Prospects Soushiant Zanganehpour (Simons Centre) and Jasmin Cheung-Gertler (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade), eds. Global attention to the prospect of Iran developing nuclear weapons has been growing since the 2003 revelation of its concealed nuclear activities. The release of the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, which concluded that Iran likely ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, has affected debates over how to respond to Iran. Interestingly, non-proliferation and disarmament advocates have joined Iran policy “hardliners” in warning that many concerns about Iran’s nuclear intentions and potential capabilities remain (much media treatment of the NIE discounts its recognition of these concerns). Has the NIE introduced vital new information into the public domain, altering opensource knowledge of Iranian nuclear ambitions in policy-relevant ways? Or do the longstanding facts of the Iranian nuclear program, sustained in the NIE, remain determinative? The "Iraninan Nuclear Ambitions after the NIE: Current Knowledge and Policy Prospects" publication provides a summary of ideas and approaches presented by experts at a symposium sponsored by the International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) at Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Expert symposium panelists include: - Dr. Jim Walsh, Massachusets Institute of Technology
- Mr. Jon Wolfsthal, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Dr. George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Mr. Flynt Leverett, New American Foundation
- Dr. Steven Miller, Harvard University
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 Iran in the World: Nuclear Crisis in Context and Beyond Soushiant Zanganehpour and Wade L. Huntley, eds. Iran in the World: The Nuclear Crisis in Context provides the presentations and discussions from the first conference of the Simons Centre’s program on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The work offers provocative and sometimes controversial exploration of the forces shaping Iranian nuclear interests in a summary form ideal for knowledgeable individuals mulling current policy challenges. The volume contributes to the Iran Program’s aims to develop knowledge and improve understanding of Iranian perspectives on its nuclear activities in order to facilitate global policy responses contributing to peaceful resolution of current tensions. The Simons Centre Director Wade Huntley provided the publication’s introductory chapter, “The Context of Iranian Nuclear Aims.”
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