Number: 98-299 Title: RUSSIAN MISSILE TECHNOLOGY AND NUCLEAR REACTOR TRANSFERS TO IRAN Authors: Stuart D. Goldman, Kenneth Katzman, and Robert Shuey, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division; and Carl Behrens, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division Abstract: This report examines Russian ballistic missile and nuclear reactor technology transfers to Iran and U.S. responses to those transfers. It analyzes Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear power programs, the significance of Russia's contributions to those programs, resulting U.S. security concerns, and Russian-Iranian cooperation from the perspectives of Moscow, Tehran, and Washington. The report describes bills in the 105th Congress that addressed Russian transfers of sensitive technologies to Iran. Pages: 28 Date: Updated December 14, 1998