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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Iran has enriched uranium closer to the level required to arm nuclear missiles, according to evidence discovered at an underground facility by the United Nations nuclear inspectors...That is substantially below the 90 per cent level needed to make...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday it would host another round of multilateral talks over Iran's nuclear program in mid-June. Catherine Ashton , the top foreign policy official in the European Union, suggested follow-up negotiations at the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Quarterly report released by UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has installed hundreds of enrichment machines at underground site; claims traces of uranium particles enriched up to 27%. Iran has raised its potential capacity to make sensitive nuclear...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
This week, six world powers resumed discussions with Iran in Baghdad to avert what increasingly appears to be a nuclear standoff. What the Obama administration hopes to achieve through such talks is anybody's guess. History suggests that diplomatic...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Big, boisterous and booming, Tehran defies the caricature so often painted in the West portraying Iran as a repressed, bitter, colourless society, throttled by sanctions and in the relentless grip of dour-faced mullahs. Tehran seems utterly...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 12 months ago
Breaking News The United States will join in talks with Iran next month in Moscow to try to address differences with Tehran over its nuclear program, but Washington will keep intensifying US sanctions, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Following talks, Tehran's chief negotiator Jalili stresses the Islamic Republic's right to continue uranium enrichment, says the country has abided by its obligations under the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. Iran emphasized its right to continue to...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 12 months ago
The talks Wednesday in Baghdad between Iran and Russia, the United States, China, Britain France and Germany ended inconclusively, multiple media reports said, because Iran wanted a hold on major European oil sanctions set to kick in July 1 in...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Iran rejected a new package of proposals put forward by six world powers, including the United States, at a marathon session Wednesday. U.S. officials said the extension of the talks into Thursday suggested there was still hope that the crisis over...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Iran and world powers agreed Thursday to hold a new round of nuclear talks, a diplomat involved in discussions in Baghdad said, with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to give details shortly. "There will be more talks," the diplomat said,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Iran accused world powers on Wednesday of creating "a difficult atmosphere" that hindered talks on its atomic energy programme, signalling a snag in diplomacy to defuse fears of a covert Iranian bid to develop nuclear bombs. The nub of the dispute...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
A second day of talks between Iran and world powers began Thursday amid fading hopes that these latest negotiations would help ease tensions over Tehran's disputed nuclear program. Iran rejected a new package of proposals put forward by the six...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
We believe the reason P5+1 is not able to reach a result is America," the official said, asking not to be named. "(P5+1) came to Baghdad without a clear mandate so we think the atmosphere is difficult." Washington was cautiously hopeful of progress...
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Taiwan News
| 12 months ago
Taiwan News, Website Editorial Staff 2012-05-24 02:14 PM Hopes for quick progress on Iran's disputed nuclear program faded rapidly Wednesday, as diplomats from six world powers and Iran collided bitterly in daylong talks aimed at resolving their long-...
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Zaman.com
| 12 months ago
A first day of talks between Iran and world powers about a nuclear programme that the West suspects is aimed at nuclear bomb research showed a "fair amount of disagreement" but also areas of common ground, a senior U.S. official said. "I believe...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
The talks on Iran's nuclear program opened at an imposing guest house in Baghdad's international zone at midday with a group session led by Catherine Ashton, the European Union 's foreign policy chief. The group is expected to outline a proposed...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Iran state-affiliated media calls P5+1's proposal "unbalanced," "nit-picking"; Iranian proposal includes range of both nuclear, non-nuclear issues; Western powers set to respond during next P5+1 session...Related: "In the first session, the P5+1...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Diplomats from six world powers offered Iran new proposals Wednesday to ease international concerns about its nuclear program, but appeared to reject Tehran's appeals to ease economic sanctions to help move along talks. The proposal by the U.S. and...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
As Iran meets with six world powers in Baghdad to hash out some kind of agreement regarding Tehran's controversial nuclear energy program, one of those powers, Great Britain, is considering what role, if any, it might play in a potential military...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak urged world powers not to waver in Wednesday's key talks with Iran, warning that any failure to halt enrichment would see Tehran obtain a nuclear weapon. "In Baghdad, we must watch out that partial concessions do...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (L) and Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili pose for the media before their meeting in Baghdad May 23, 2012. VOA News May 23, 2012 Talks between world powers and Iran have started in Baghdad in an...
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Mail Online UK
| 12 months ago
23 May 2012 British ministers say the deployment of the Royal Navy in the Middle East is just one of the options on their table should war break out between Iran and Israel later this year. Senior figures in the government's National Security Council...
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Pak Tribune
| 12 months ago
The International Atomic Energy Agency will soon sign an accord with Iran aimed at trying to resolve disputes over its nuclear drive, the UN watchdog's chief Yukiya Amano said on Tuesday. He made the announcement on his return to Vienna from a visit...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
Yukiya Amano, the director general of the UN nuclear watchdog, said Tehran would allow international inspectors access to sites, scientists and documents the West believes to be related to an alleged nuclear-weapons program. According to the Wall...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Islam forbids atomic weapons and other arms of mass destruction, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted on Wednesday ahead of his country's nuclear talks with world powers in Baghdad. "Based on Islamic teachings and the clear fatwa [edict] of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
Amato [Reuters] Iran and six world powers are set to resume talks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, over a controversial nuclear programme that the West suspects Tehran is seeking to use to develop a nuclear bomb. Britain, China, France, Russia and the...
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The Observer
| 12 months ago
Karim Kadim/AP World powers will test Iran 's readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear programme at Baghdad talks on Wednesday aimed at easing a decade-old standoff and averting the threat of a Middle East war. The meeting...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Iran and six world powers meet for talks in Baghdad on Wednesday hoping to silence what US President Barack Obama called the drums of war and pave the way to a deal that will end decades of enmity. The one overriding issue is Iran's nuclear programme,...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
Iran signaled a willingness Tuesday to allow potentially intrusive international inspections of secret military facilities, raising expectations that it was searching for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over its nuclear program. With talks...
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Haaretz
| 12 months ago
Iran are expected to agree on international supervision of Tehran's nuclear program. Yukiya Amano, however, acknowledged that "some differences" remained. He was speaking to reporters at Vienna airport on his return from the Iranian capital. A senior...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Jordan The United Nations' atomic watchdog agency said it was close to a deal giving inspectors access to some of Iran's disputed nuclear sites, providing a dose of optimism as diplomats prepared for new talks to overcome their standoff with the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday will lead the Western powers in attempting to persuade the Iranians to end their nuclear program...Iranian sites, including the Parchin military installation near Tehran. Iranians would get rid of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Iran's suspected work on atom bombs, US says "promises are one thing, actions and fulfillments of obligations are another." The White House on Tuesday called the UN nuclear watchdog's progress toward an inspection agreement with Iran a step forward...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano says he and Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili have made a "decision to reach an agreement" on access to Iranian nuclear sites "quite soon."...Iran's program is exclusively for...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 12 months ago
Crude oil prices, which had climbed on Monday, breaking a recent slump, edged down on both sides of the Atlantic. New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for June finished at $91.66 a barrel, down 91 cents from Monday's closing...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
The chief of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog agency said Tuesday he expects to sign a deal with Iran opening the way for fuller investigation of Tehran's disputed nuclear program , in a potential sign of hope for world powers' efforts to curb...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
I can say it will be signed quite soon, Amano told reporters at the Vienna airport upon his return from Tehran. Monday in negotiating a plan for systematically addressing allegations about secret nuclear weapons research by Iranian scientists. While...
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SF Gate
| 12 months ago
Yukiya Amano, center, from Japan speaks to the media after returning from Iran at the Vienna International Airport near Schwechat, Austria, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Amano says he has reached a deal with Iran on probing suspected work on nuclear...
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Haaretz
| 12 months ago
Yukiya Amano had struck a deal with Iran Tuesday to inspect its nuclear facilities was received in Jerusalem with great suspicion...Iran continued to establish uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz under the nose of the international community...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Yukiya Amano said the UN nuclear watchdog would sign an accord "quite soon" with Iran in a bid to end the long-running crisis over its atomic activities, in what he termed an "important development." "We are pretty suspicious," said Finance Minister...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Tehran's newfound willingness to allow an intrusive, international probe into the heart of its secretive and controversial nuclear program could defuse one of the world's most dangerous confrontations. But the vague talk of a deal to be signed quite...
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Chicago Tribune
| 12 months ago
The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said on Tuesday he expected to sign a deal with Iran soon to ease investigation into suspected work on atom bombs, potentially brightening prospects for big-power talks with Tehran to stop a drift towards conflict.
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
A deal has been agreed to that will facilitate international monitors' effort to investigate whether Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters in Vienna earlier today. The Financial...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
The chief of the UN nuclear agency said he expected to sign a breakthrough deal with Iran to boost cooperation on a probe into the country's controversial atomic activity. Iranian officials and a day ahead of a key nuclear meeting in Baghdad between...
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The Observer
| 12 months ago
Yukiya Amano, speaks to reporters in Vienna upon his return from Tehran. Photograph: Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images The head of the UN nuclear agency, Yukiya Amano said on Tuesday morning that an agreement would be signed "quite soon" with Iran to...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Yukiya Amano , the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency , was speaking to reporters on his return to the body's headquarters in Vienna after conferring with...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Iran nuclear investigation accord 'expected soon' The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said it is close to signing an accord with Iran after his talks in Tehran. The International Atomic Energy Agency said the deal could increase Tehran's co-...
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Haaretz
| 12 months ago
The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief said Tuesday that he had reached an agreement with Iran on probing suspected work on atomic weapons, adding that he hoped the agreement would "be signed quite soon." Tehran and a day before Iran and six world...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
Director General Yukiya Amano's meeting with Iranian officials helped in laying down the groundwork for progress in negotiations to be held on Wednesday. Yukiya met top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and other Iranian officials in Tehran. According...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The Washington Post The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iranian officials held a day of high-level talks Monday that both sides described as positive, but it remained unclear whether Iran had given ground on allowing access to key nuclear...
