Iran
Iran is a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has signed but not yet ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). They are one of the 44 listed countries needed to sign and ratify for the CTBT to enter into force.
Iran is attempting to obtain a full nuclear cycle involving nuclear power plants, fuel manufacturing and uranium enrichment facilities.
However, past failures by Iran to declare some its nuclear facilities and activities have lead many nations to call into question whether Iran has actually been trying to pursue a nuclear weapons programme. This has lead to the IAEA Board of Governors reporting Iran to the UN Security Council. The Council has passed two resolutions to date imposing a wide variety of sanctions on Iran to punish them, to try to get them to halt uranium enrichment and return to some form of negotiations to resolve the matter.
Iran remains defiant and continues, with Russian assistance, to construct two reactors at Bushehr (the first of which it hoped to complete by the end of 2007) and refuses to give up its right to enrich uranium.
Read the profile on Iran from the Model Nuclear Inventory (pdf), produced by the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
