July 8, 2014
12:22 pm

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni. (screen capture: Youtube/PressTVGlobalNews)

Iran’s supreme leader: We want 190,000 centrifuges

Tehran demanding to keep nearly 20 times as much uranium enrichment equipment as world powers will allow

By AFP

May 16, 2014
7:54 pm

European Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton (left), and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right), before the closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

Round of Iran nuclear talks ends with big setbacks

Senior Iranian official says differences remain on more than a dozen issues; uranium enrichment said to be among most divisive topics

By George Jahn

February 19, 2014
9:47 am

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif before the round of talks in Vienna February 18, 2014. (Screen capture)

Washington critics sound alarm as Iran talks resume

White House defends negotiations in Vienna amid warnings by hawkish groups; ballistic technology tops agenda

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

February 18, 2014
5:54 am

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Tehran (photo credit: AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/File)

Obstacles abound ahead of final Iran nuclear deal

Expectations are low as talks between the Islamic Republic and Western powers resume on Tuesday

By AP and Times of Israel staff

February 17, 2014
8:20 pm

International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors (2nd and 3rd left) and Iranian technicians at Natanz nuclear power plant south of Tehran on January, 20, 2014 (Photo credit: Kazem Ghane/IRNA/AFP)

Hard-line stance on Iran making Israel irrelevant, official says

World powers set to demand Tehran cut centrifuges and shutter Qom facility, but Israel wants zero enrichment; top US negotiator to visit Israel Sunday

By Marissa Newman

January 23, 2014
2:25 am

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles and laughs as he speaks to the media in Geneva, on November 24, 2013, after the interim nuclear deal was concluded (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster/Pool)

Iran: We did not agree to dismantle anything

FM Mohammad Javad Zarif claims Washington has mischaracterized Tehran’s concessions in the interim nuclear agreement

By Yoel Goldman

January 8, 2014
11:01 pm

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, second left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, third right, are pictured during talks over Iran's nuclear program in Geneva, Switzerland, in November. (photo credit: AP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Iran, big power nuclear talks hit snag on centrifuge research

From the web Negotiations have run into problems over the issue of centrifuges, and not for the first time, diplomats told Reuters

December 29, 2013
3:14 pm

Iranian nuclear head Ali Akbar Salehi speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in October 2012. (photo credit: CFR screenshot)

Iran nuclear chief: We’ve kept new centrifuges offline

Tehran said to be holding back on installing new devices due to November deal with Western powers

By AP

December 7, 2013
8:38 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left), and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) attend a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, Thursday, September 26, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Jason DeCrow)

P5+1 talks on Iran’s nukes to resume on Monday

New negotiations, to be held this time in Vienna, still won’t finalize arrangements for implementing last month’s interim deal

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

November 23, 2013
4:22 pm

A debacle created by our appeasement

The cruse and the centrifuge — two very different ‘miraculous’ events

By Marvin Hier

November 13, 2013
5:49 pm

Minister of Intelligence Yuval Steinitz attends a session of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Knesset, October 16, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Sanctions relief would save Iran up to $40b., says Israeli minister

Yuval Steinitz claims insider knowledge of ‘horrible’ nuclear deal thanks to Israeli intelligence gathering on Iran

By Elhanan Miller

November 7, 2013
3:24 pm

Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Tehran (photo credit: AP/ISNA/Hamid Foroutan/File)

US senator pushes to block Iran sanctions waivers

An interim agreement that does not freeze enrichment and work on Arak plant might be a hard sell for the administration

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

October 8, 2013
8:42 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters during a press conference, Tuesday, October 8, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Netanyahu sticks to his guns on Iranian enrichment

PM says there’s ‘nothing wrong with diplomacy’ — if Tehran relinquishes its centrifuges and stops producing plutonium

By Stuart Winer

May 23, 2013
7:27 am

Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the IAEA, left, and Iran's Ambassador to the international atomic agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, speak to media after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, May (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

IAEA: Iran expanding nuclear technology

Report shows Tehran is wasting no time in quest for the bomb, enriching uranium and producing plutonium

By George Jahn

May 22, 2013
3:00 pm

Iran ups uranium enrichment capabilities, diplomats say

Topic: centrifuges

Iran’s supreme leader: We want 190,000 centrifuges

Tehran demanding to keep nearly 20 times as much uranium enrichment equipment as world powers will allow

Round of Iran nuclear talks ends with big setbacks

Senior Iranian official says differences remain on more than a dozen issues; uranium enrichment said to be among most divisive topics

Washington critics sound alarm as Iran talks resume

White House defends negotiations in Vienna amid warnings by hawkish groups; ballistic technology tops agenda

Obstacles abound ahead of final Iran nuclear deal

Expectations are low as talks between the Islamic Republic and Western powers resume on Tuesday

Hard-line stance on Iran making Israel irrelevant, official says

World powers set to demand Tehran cut centrifuges and shutter Qom facility, but Israel wants zero enrichment; top US negotiator to visit Israel Sunday

Iran: We did not agree to dismantle anything

FM Mohammad Javad Zarif claims Washington has mischaracterized Tehran’s concessions in the interim nuclear agreement

Iran, big power nuclear talks hit snag on centrifuge research

From the web Negotiations have run into problems over the issue of centrifuges, and not for the first time, diplomats told Reuters

Iran nuclear chief: We’ve kept new centrifuges offline

Tehran said to be holding back on installing new devices due to November deal with Western powers

P5+1 talks on Iran’s nukes to resume on Monday

New negotiations, to be held this time in Vienna, still won’t finalize arrangements for implementing last month’s interim deal

A debacle created by our appeasement

The cruse and the centrifuge — two very different ‘miraculous’ events

Sanctions relief would save Iran up to $40b., says Israeli minister

Yuval Steinitz claims insider knowledge of ‘horrible’ nuclear deal thanks to Israeli intelligence gathering on Iran

US senator pushes to block Iran sanctions waivers

An interim agreement that does not freeze enrichment and work on Arak plant might be a hard sell for the administration

Netanyahu sticks to his guns on Iranian enrichment

PM says there’s ‘nothing wrong with diplomacy’ — if Tehran relinquishes its centrifuges and stops producing plutonium

IAEA: Iran expanding nuclear technology

Report shows Tehran is wasting no time in quest for the bomb, enriching uranium and producing plutonium

Iran ups uranium enrichment capabilities, diplomats say

Increase of about 100 centrifuges since mid-April, when envoys first claimed the Islamic Republic was rapidly building new nuclear equipment

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