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

Israel's 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

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

April 17, 2013
2:43 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran in 2008 (photo credit: AP/Iranian President's Office)

Iran triples enrichment capacity, diplomats say

Move suggests Tehran possesses the know-how and the raw materials to mass-produce centrifuges

February 15, 2013
9:09 pm

A satellite image of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment facility (photo credit: AP/DigitalGlobe)

World powers to offer easing of sanctions at Iran nuclear talks

From the web Reuters: Barring on trade of precious metal with Tehran will be lifted in return for shut down of Fordo uranium enrichment plant

February 14, 2013
7:03 pm

Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, talks to media after his arrival from Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

Watchdog says Iran upgraded centrifuges for nuke program

Installation represents a dramatic upgrade in the country’s controversial uranium enrichment program

By George Jahn

February 14, 2013
8:59 am

Illustrative photo of centrifuges enriching uranium (photo credit: US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons)

‘Iran tried to buy game-changing centrifuge parts’

Large order of magnetic rings from China would greatly expand the country’s nuclear enrichment capacity, Washington Post reports

By Aaron Kalman

January 31, 2013
11:14 pm

An anti-aircraft gun guarding the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz in Iran in 2007 (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

White House: Iran’s centrifuge upgrade represents ‘further escalation’

‘While the world is discussing where and when the next meeting with Iran will be, Iran is rapidly advancing toward a nuclear bomb,’ says Israeli official

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 31, 2013
10:48 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz enrichment facility in 2008 (photo credit: www.president.ir)

Diplomats: Iran preparing to accelerate nuclear program

Topic: centrifuges