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Fox News
| 3 months ago
Iran A prominent Iranian lawmaker is saying his country will never close the Fordo nuclear site in exchange for an ease in Western sanctions. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the influential parliamentary committee on national security and foreign...
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Jerusalem Post
| 3 months ago
Head of Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy c'tee says enrichment plant is essential to defend Tehran against enemy threat, adds that suggestion to shut down Fordow "is meant to help the Zionist regime."...Iran will never shut...
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Indian Express
| 3 months ago
We dont seek to build nukes '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Iran's supreme leader said Saturday that his country was not seeking nuclear weapons, but that if Tehran intended to build them, the US couldn't stop it. Ayatollah Ali...
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United Press International
| 3 months ago
Iran's supreme ayatollah said Saturday his nation was not developing nuclear weapons and was in favor of banning the bomb worldwide. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei told an audience in Tabriz Iran would already have a nuclear capability if it was...
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DAWN
| 3 months ago
Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, but if it wanted to the United States could not thwart it, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday. We believe nuclear weapons must be abolished and we have no intention of building...
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The Daily Star
| 3 months ago
This undated photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, shows Gen. A senior Iranian official has vowed to take revenge on Israel for its alleged involvement in the killing of a commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard. The Guard...
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B92
| 3 months ago
Ali Khamenei (Beta/AP) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, said Iran supported abolition of nuclear weapons. "We believe nuclear weapons must be abolished and we have no intention of building such weaponry, he...
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Russia Today
| 3 months ago
A handout picture released by the official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows Khamenei waving to the Iranian air force commanders during a meeting in Tehran on February 7, 2013. (AFP Photo) Iran has no intention to develop...
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The Observer
| 3 months ago
Staff and agencies A military parade in Tehran passes a banner of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The supreme leader has said Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapopns. Photograph: Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP Iran 's supreme leader has said the Islamic...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 3 months ago
Iran does not want nuclear weapons but if it did, no world power could prevent it from obtaining one, Iran's Supreme Leader said on Saturday, according to Iranian media. The United States and some of its Western allies suspect Iran may be trying to...
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Zawya Political
| 3 months ago
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Wednesday rejected as baseless the claim by Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal that Tehran is trying to build a nuclear bomb. According to Press TV, during a joint press conference...
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The Boston Globe
| 3 months ago
Iran (AP) Iran's Supreme Leader says Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons, but that no power could stop Tehran's access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build it. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, told a...
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The Daily Star
| 3 months ago
U.S. officials have sought to prevent Turkish gold exports, which indirectly pay Iran for its natural gas, from providing a financial lifeline to Tehran, largely frozen out of the global banking system by Western sanctions over its nuclear program.
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Jerusalem Post
| 3 months ago
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said their decision not to make a dramatically new offer in part reflected skepticism that Iran is ready to make a deal ahead of its June 14 presidential election...Iran denies it is seeking nuclear...
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Ynet News
| 3 months ago
Nuclear Talks Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Photo: Reuters Proposal to be presented at February 26 talks in Almaty; low expectations for negotiations ahead of Iranian election Reuters The major powers plan to offer to ease sanctions barring...
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Reuters
| 3 months ago
Topics A worker holds a gold necklace at a gold workshop in the city of Isfahan, 414 km (259 miles) south of Tehran May 3, 2007. Major powers plan to offer to ease sanctions barring trade in gold and other precious metals with Iran in return for...
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Russia Today
| 3 months ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia) Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister is hopeful negotiations between the P5+1 group (the UN Security Council's five permanent members plus Germany) and Iranian officials in Almaty,...
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Boston.com
| 3 months ago
Iran (AP) Iran has ordered a six-month ban on pistachio exports to try to control the price of the nut, which doubled in the past month. Pistachios are among Iran's top non-oil exports and widely consumed at home, bringing in an average of $1.5...
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NewKerala
| 3 months ago
As Iran agreed to start fresh talks with the so-called P5+1 group -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the US and Germany -- Feb 26 in Kazakhstan, the Obama administration has again urged Tehran to engage in "substantive" negotiations over its disputed...
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Qatar English Daily
| 3 months ago
Once reliant on Iran for more than half its crude oil imports, Turkey has reduced its purchases as the United States and European Union have tightened sanctions on the trade with Tehran. (Reuters)
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United Press International
| 3 months ago
North Korea's recent underground nuclear test may have been witnessed at the site by Iranian scientists, a Western diplomatic source told Japan's Kyodo News. The source, described as privy to Iran-North Korea ties, told Kyodo Iranian scientists...
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The Daily Star
| 3 months ago
Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria,Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Gulf Arab governments dismissed as interference an Iranian suggestion that unrest in Syria and Bahrain be discussed at nuclear talks between world powers and Iran, accusing Tehran...
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Washington Post
| 3 months ago
We should not give much more time to the Iranians, and we should not waste time, Ban said...The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the formal name for North Korea, exploded a third nuclear test device this week. The North exploited a decade of...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 3 months ago
Iran tried to smuggle thousands of specialised magnets through China for its centrifuges, in an effort to speed its path to reaching nuclear weapons capability, according to a new US report. The report, by a renowned American nuclear scientist, said...
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Denver Post
| 3 months ago
Iran recently sought to acquire tens of thousands of highly specialized magnets used in centrifuge machines, according to experts and diplomats, a sign that the country may be planning a major expansion of its nuclear program that could shorten the...
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j.
| 3 months ago
The leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution, because a coalition stands united in demanding that they meet their obligations, and we will do what is necessary to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon, Obama...
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Arab News
| 3 months ago
The chief UN atomic inspector said yesterday that talks with Iran had failed again to reach a deal on enhanced inspections of Tehran's nuclear program, two weeks before a major meeting with world powers. We had discussions on the structured approach...
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Al Jazeera English
| 3 months ago
Vienna who was not at the talks. "It appears that we now have to ask ourselves if this is still the right tactic." The deadlock is a chilling signal for a wider effort by six major powers to get Iran to curb a programme that they fear could give it...
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Israel National News
| 3 months ago
Advanced Centrifuges at Natanz Inspectors of the International Atomic Engergy Agency detected a small number of advanced centrifuges during a routine visit to Iran's Natanz nuclear facility for the enrichment of uranium, according to a diplomatic...
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The Daily Star
| 3 months ago
A general view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, some 1,200 km south of Tehran in this October 26, 2010 file photo. France said Thursday it was very concerned about Iran's "persistent refusal" to come clean about its nuclear programme, which the...
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Arab News
| 3 months ago
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander has been killed inside Syria by rebels battling Iran's close ally President Bashar Assad, Iranian officials and a rebel leader said on Thursday . Syrian rebels have repeatedly accused Tehran of sending...
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AKI
| 3 months ago
Iran's hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday said his country would not bow to pressure from western nations to halt its nuclear programme. On behalf of the Iranian nation, I say that anyone who thinks he can defeat the Iranian nation...
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SF Gate
| 3 months ago
A senior diplomat is confirming Tehran's announcement that it has started upgrading its nuclear program. He says that U.N. officials just back from Iran saw new machines positioned to vastly accelerate output of material usable both for reactor fuel...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 3 months ago
Herman Nackaerts said in Vienna on his return from Iran on Thursday. Parchin military site where nuclear weapons parts were allegedly tested...Ali Asghar Soltanieh, who said on Wednesday that some disagreements were now settled, and who talked about...
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DAWN
| 3 months ago
The UN nuclear watchdog said on Thursday it had again failed to clinch a deal in talks with Iran this week on investigating suspected atom bomb research by the state. The lack of a breakthrough in Wednesday's meeting in Tehran, though expected by...
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KSBY
| 3 months ago
Senior officials of the U.N. atomic agency have returned from Tehran without a hoped-for deal that would have led to the resumption of a probe into allegations that Iran worked secretly on nuclear arms. Herman Naeckerts, who headed the International...
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Israel National News
| 3 months ago
The purchase of the rings, included in the list of equipment that are not allowed to be sold to Iran by a UN decision, would have increased Iran's ability to enrich uranium by a factor of five. According to the Washington Post , the deal was not...
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Washington Post
| 3 months ago
The Washington Post Iran recently sought to acquire tens of thousands of highly specialized magnets used in centrifuge machines, according to experts and diplomats, a sign that the country may be planning a major expansion of its nuclear program that...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 3 months ago
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2008, touring Iran's nuclear operations in Natanz, which Iran says are for electricity...The top Iranian atomic energy official was quoted Wednesday as saying that his country had begun to install more sophisticated...
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The Daily Star
| 3 months ago
Iran agreed on some points in talks with U.N. atomic experts in Tehran Wednesday, two weeks ahead of negotiations with world powers aimed at finding a diplomatic solution to end a standoff over its nuclear ambitions...New proposals, Soltanieh said,...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 3 months ago
Why the Iran threat assessment may be easing for now Iran's unexpectedly slow missile progress, a dialed down 'covert war,' and uranium enrichment changes may yield more room for diplomacy over the country's nuclear program. Istanbul, Turkey Analysts...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 3 months ago
The world must show its resolve in the face of North Korea's nuclear provocations or risk emboldening Iran, which is under scrutiny over its uranium enrichment program, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday. Kerry said nations must agree on...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 3 months ago
Korea will send Iran a message US Secretary of State John Kerry says the world must show its resolve in the face of North Korea's latest nuclear test or risk emboldening Iran's uranium enrichment program. Kerry says nations must agree on a "swift,...
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The Courier-Mail
| 3 months ago
UN experts were holding talks in Tehran on the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear drive. The announcement comes despite a warning by Washington that an Iranian upgrade would violate UN resolutions and claims by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Taiwan News
| 3 months ago
Iran said Wednesday that it has begun installing a new generation of centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment facility, a move that will allow it to vastly increase its pace of uranium enrichment in defiance of U.N. calls to halt such activities.
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BBC
| 3 months ago
The Iranian atomic energy chief has announced an upgrade to uranium enrichment machines in a move the US has called an "escalation". New uranium enrichment centrifuges began to be installed at the Natanz site last month, Fereydun Abbasi-Davani was...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 3 months ago
Iran's nuclear chief says his country has begun installing a new generation of uranium enrichment centrifuges at its main facility making nuclear fuel. The announcement coincided with talks Wednesday with senior United Nations nuclear inspectors...
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NY Daily News
| 3 months ago
Iran said on Wednesday it had started installing a new generation of machines for enriching uranium, an announcement likely to annoy the West and complicate efforts to resolve a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program. It came on the day the U.N.
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The Globe & Mail
| 3 months ago
Iran started installing a new generation of uranium enrichment machines at its Natanz nuclear site last month, Iran's atomic energy organisation chief was quoted as saying on Wednesday by Iranian media...More Related to this Story We have produced...
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Reuters
| 3 months ago
Topics Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, in this file photo taken April 8, 2008. Iran started installing a new generation of uranium enrichment machines at its...
