1985
AEOI discover 5000 tones of Uranium ore discovered in Iran
February 1987
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization President expresses the need for Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
1988
Bin Laden founds Al-Qaida.
September 1988
The US gives the go ahead for the development of THAAD.
1989
Soviet Union withdraws their troops from Afghanistan.
Iran-Iraq war ends.
1990
August 1990
Iraq invades Kuwait
1991
Soviet Union is dissolved.
Osama Bin Laden relocates to Sudan.
1991
German police investigate 41 nuclear smuggling incidents.
Iran is reported to have 3 nuclear weapons acquired through Kazakhstan.
August 1991
Russian coup against Gorbachev.
December 1991
The House Republican Task Force reports that Iran has the materials for three nuclear weapons.
December 25, 1991
Gorbachev is forced to resign as President of the U.S.S.R.
1992
158 reports of nuclear smuggling investigated by Germany.
New York Times reports 53 nuclear smuggling incidents.
Iran offered to provide Ukraine with oil in exchange for missile technology.
March
Israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
June
The Russian authorities withdrew all Russian defense personnel and their families from Chechnya.
July 1,1992
Iran and Syria are reported to be engaged in counterfeiting U.S. $100 bills.
August 10, 1992
Tehran, Baghdad and Damascus declared the new AXIS pact.
28 August
Russia and the United States agreed to transfer from Russian inventories 500 metric tons of weapons grade uranium to the USA for dilution into reactor fuel over the next 20 years.
1993
German Police investigate 241 cases of nuclear smuggling.
NYT reports 56 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated.
February 28, 1993
First World Trade Center attack.
September 1993
Moscow news reports that the Chechen republic had paraded SS-20 missiles in a military review in Grozney.
July-December 1993
The Russian Federal Counterintelligence service claim that over 900 thefts of from military and nuclear plants had taken place and 700 thefts of secret
technology had occurred.
1994
267 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated by German police.
NYT reports 124 incidents of nuclear smuggling investigated 77 of these cases
involved Plutonium or uranium.
Osama Bin Laden’s Saudi Citizenship revoked.
Project Saffire- The US buys tons of plutonium and uranium from Kazakhstan.
322 terrorist attacks occur, 66 of these attacks were against US interests.
Late 1994
A ship carrying 200 tons of enriched Brazilian uranium disappeared while en-route to Canada suspected of being diverted to Iran.
1 January
1995
July
The Jewish community center in Buenos Aires is bombed.
September
Marshal Law declared in Chechnya.
November
Russian Interior Minister Yerin report 80 incidents of nuclear smuggling interdiction occurred between 1993-1994.
Dudayev requests special UN troops to come in and protect weapons of mass destruction from attack by Russian forces.
December
Russian Forces enter Chechnya to stop Independence movement.
1995
440 international terrorists attacks 99 attacks against US interests 12 US citizens killed.
Russian media reports that claim that Chechen rebels have obtained Soviet made ADMs.
Bin Laden agreed to finance a Gulf Battalion organized by the Iranian Guardians of the revolution. It was suggested that he had convinced Yemeni fundamentalist leader Shaykh ‘Abd-al-Majid al-
Zandani, to position elements of the Gulf Battalion in al-Zandani’s camps in Yemen for deployment in Gulf countries when circumstances permitted.
Iran A secret deal was reportedly signed for Russia to deliver two 400 MW reactors to an underground facility beneath a mountain in Chalus.
General Uzi Dayan gives lecture calling for Israel to bomb Iranian Nuclear power program in order to prevent them from producing nuclear weapons.
March 15, 1995,
Executive Order 12957, President Clinton declared a national emergency with respect to Iran pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers
Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the threat to the national security,
foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the actions and
policies of the Government of Iran, including its support for international
terrorism, efforts to undermine the Middle East peace process, and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
19 April
Oklahoma City the Federal building is bombed by a fuel oil bomb in a Ryder truck.
May
Unilateral U.S. embargo of all Iranian Imports.
May
Clinton-Yeltsin summit Iranian centrifuge plant for Uranium enrichment is discussed.
26 June
Assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during his Ethiopian visit.
Summer 1995
U.S. embargo causes a drop in the value in the Iranian Rial.
September
New presidential decision directive to organize even more comprehensive U.S. efforts to secure nuclear material.
October
President Clinton addresses the U.N. general assembly reflects on nuclear proliferation.
15 October
Russian Interior Minister Kulikov, in a television interview stated that, Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev might have radioactive isotopes taken from the Budyonnovsk hospital seized by Chechen rebels last spring.
21 October
Unocal and Delta Oil signed an agreement with the President of Turkmenistan,
Saparmurad Niyazov, which included a plan to for the construction of a gas pipeline that would cross Afghanistan.
23 November
Russian television reporters discovered a 32kg container, reportedly holding cesium-137, in a Moscow park. The object was part of a hospital X-ray machine.
13 November
Riyadh bombing of the Office of the Program Manager/Saudi Arabian National Guard five US citizens killed.
1996
296 acts of international terrorism 73 were anti-US. 24 US citizens killed.
U.S. officials estimate that with extensive outside help, Iran might be able to produce a nuclear weapon by about the year 2000.
3 February
H.R. 3107 Iran oil sanctions act of 1996 advances through congress.
May
US state department imposes sanctions against entities in both North Korea and Iran for missile proliferation.
Iran built a rail link between Iran and the Central Asian rail system and improved the parallel highway link as well. These links could be used to transfer WMD technology.
Bin Laden is ejected from Sudan.
Mid- 1996
A meeting of various leaders convened by Bin Laden reached a consensus “to use force to confront all foreign forces stationed on Islamic land,” and to form a planning committee; a financing, supply, and mobilization committee; and a higher military committee t o over see implementation of the plan.
31 May
Four Saudis accused in the attack against installations in Riyadh are executed.
25 June
Fuel truck bombing of the US military’s Khubar Towers housing facility near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US citizens and wounding 500 persons.
9 July
The ABL is proposed as weapon system.
23 August
Bin Laden declares war against the US. Says he is planning large attacks against the U.S.
September
Taliban takes over Afghanistan.
September 6
Iraqi incursion into Kurdistan.
November
Gadaffi assassination attempt.
28 November
Russian General Lebed meets with Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Discussion of Russian nuclear security takes place.
1997
Asian financial crisis.
February
Taleban rejects American deal for international recognition in exchange for handing over Bin Laden.
12 February
Clinton warns Russia about assistance to Iran’s missile and unconventional weapons program.
19 March
Assassination attempt on Bin Laden kills more than 50 and wounds 150 destroying a Jalalabad police station. It was one of two attempts on bin laden in early 1997.
May
Iran elects Mohammad Khatami is elected for President.
13 November
4 US citizens killed, employees of Union Texas Petroleum in Karachi, Pakistan.
25 November
APEC Summit, leaders of the 18 Asia Pacific economies endorses a framework to cope with financial crises.
The deadliest terrorist attack ever committed in Egypt occurred, when six gunmen entered the Hasheput Temple in Luxor and for 30 minutes killed fifty-eight tourists.
December
US spy satellites observe Iranian Shihab-3 missile engine test.
1998
February
Bin Laden announced the creation of a new alliance of terrorist organizations, the “World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders.” The Front included the Egyptian al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Harakat ul-Ansar, and two other groups. The Front declared its intention to attack Americans and our allies, including civilians, anywhere in the world. By at least February 1998, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad had effectively merged with al-Qaeda and joined with them to target Americans.
SUMMER
Russian Financial Crisis Breaks
23 July
Iran test fires the Shihab-3 missile for the first time it is a success.
23 July
"If Iran has successfully developed and tested a weapon with a range of at least
800 miles, what is to stop them from developing the means to deliver such a weapon upon the United States or any of our allies? The time for the United States to develop and deploy a national missile defense system is now. I simply cannot believe that the Clinton Administration refuses to acknowledge the need that has existed for some time, and most certainly exists now."
August
U.S. embassy bombing in Africa occurs killing 12 Americans.
20 August
Operation Infinite Reach the United States bombs Bin Laden’s facilities in Sudan and Afghanistan.
31 August
North Korea launches Taepodong missile over Japan.
September 4, 1998
the Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of launch announcement claimed that what had been though to have been a missile launch which had caused international comment on August 31 had actually been their first satellite launch. The three-stage launch vehicle is said to have been flown from Musudan-
ri, Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province (estimated to be approximately 41 deg N, 130 deg E) at an azimuth of 86 deg (which implies an orbital inclination close to 41 deg) and "correctly put the satellite into orbit" after four minutes 53 seconds. The launch
vehicle's first stage separated 95 seconds after the launch: the second stage "opened the capsule" (possibly meaning the separation of the payload shroud) 144 seconds after
launch and separated at 266 seconds: the third stage is claimed to have put the satellite into orbit 27 seconds after the separation of the second stage.
September 5, 1998
Israeli intelligence officials believe Iran is developing a spy satellite as part of its ballistic missile program. Analyzing Iranian television video, they spotted a satellite launcher and what could be the basis for a spy satellite that could cover the entire Middle East, including Israel.
17 September 1998
"The actions and policies of the Government of Iran continue to present an extraordinary and unusual threat to the national security, foreign policy, and
economy of the United States," President Clinton said in a September 17 letter to Congress.
23 September 1998
HOPES FOR A THAW IN RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN RECEIVED A SETBACK THIS WEEK WHEN IRANIAN PRESIDENT MOHAMMED KHATAMI DENIED TEHRAN IS READY FOR A DIPLOMATIC OPENING WITH WASHINGTON.
29 September 1998
IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KAMEL KHARAZZI, MONDAY REJECTED AN INVITATION BY THE UNITED STATES TO START A POLITICAL DIALOG AIMED AT NORMALIZING RELATIONS.
16 April 1999
AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES ARE STEPPING UP THEIR CALL FOR AN
END TO THE U-S EMBARGO AGAINST IRAN, SAYING THAT IT HURTS U-S INTERESTS AND GIVES AN ADVANTAGE TO FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES.
July
Clinton cuts off all commercial contact with Afghanistan.
October 1999
The Russians and Chechens both claim that the other side was preparing chemical weapons for use in the conflict.
15 October
U.N. Security council demands that the Taleban hand over Bin Laden to authorities in a country (U.S.A.) to stand trial.
14 November
U.N.S.C. decides that all states shall freeze funds and prohibit take offs and landings of Taliban owned aircraft unless or until they hand over Bin Laden. The Taliban refused so the sanctions took effect.
10 December 1999
Russian Military claim that Chechen Separatists exploded canisters of toxic agents in a village on the out skirts of Grozney.
January 2000
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth meets with Taliban Ambassador Amir Khan Muttaqi in Pakistan.
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