May 20, 2005

Understanding Iran's Nuclear Agenda

By DANIEL BYMAN

Since the election of the reformist President Mohammad Khatami in 1997, both the Clinton and Bush administrations have tried to confront Iran about its nuclear ambitions without alienating the Iranian people. Time, it appeared, was on America's side. Washington believed that Iran's nuclear program had made only limited progress, while Khatami's election heralded the beginning of the end of the clerical regime. After Iran's people swept aside the Islamic revolution, U.S.-Iran enmity would

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