December 4, 2013
1:24 am

The existing nuclear facility in Bushehr province, Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

‘Iran in talks with Russia for two more nuclear plants at Bushehr’

Tehran and Moscow are discussing the construction of second and third facilities in southern province, says report citing Iranian official

By Times of Israel staff

December 1, 2013
5:28 pm

Iran's president Hassan Rouhani at a press conference, in Tehran on June 17, 2013. (photo credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Rouhani: Iran to build second nuclear plant at Bushehr

Top Iranian official last year cited 34 potential sites for new nuclear power facilities

By Yifa Yaakov and Times of Israel staff

November 30, 2013
10:27 am

Rouhani: We’ll keep enriching uranium as needed

Iranian president says IAEA will be able to attest to peaceful nature of nuclear program, praises ‘polite’ Obama

By Yifa Yaakov

November 16, 2013
6:44 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry, Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, left, the EU's Catherine Ashton, center, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, right, hold talks over Iran's nuclear program in Geneva, November 9, 2013. (Photo credit: State Department/Twitter)

US: Deal would offer Iran ‘minor’ sanctions relief

Officials in Washington play down easing of economic restrictions, say world powers’ offer to Tehran ‘way south’ of estimates

By Deb Riechmann and Times of Israel staff

October 25, 2013
3:46 am

US Congress (photo credit: CC BY-SA Dougtone, Flickr)

White House reportedly pushing Congress to delay Iran sanctions

Administration said to ask congressional staffers to hold off on new penalties

By JTA

October 6, 2013
5:46 am

US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno shakes hands with New Zealand army Maj. Gen. Warren J. Whiting at an MFO camp in the Sinai on September 21, 2012. (Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade/US Army)

Shutdown delaying aid to Israel, Sinai peacekeeper funding

John Kerry says lack of government money hurting Washington’s allies and making enforcement of sanctions on Iran impossible

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

August 22, 2013
10:19 pm

Hezbollah supporters wave flags and hold up Arabic banners that read, "At your service God's prophet; America equals terrorism; and America does not equal freedom," during an anti-US rally in Beirut, Lebanon, in September, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

US freezes accounts of four Hezbollah members

Treasury Department says sanctions due to Lebanese group’s expanded international activities

By Lara Jakes

August 16, 2013
6:18 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Labor party head Shelly Yachimovich on Friday, in Jerusalem (photo credit: Flash90)

Yachimovich to UN chief: I will support PM’s peace efforts

Opposition leader says international community should refrain from sanctions against Israel

By Yoel Goldman

August 9, 2013
1:42 pm

Then-presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani waves from a campaign bus in the western city of Sanandaj, Iran, earlier this year (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran political prisoners call on US to soften sanctions, open talks

Prominent reformists say election of Rouhani presents opportunity to reach detente, claim sanctions have only hurt poor

By Times of Israel staff

August 7, 2013
4:42 pm

Republican Jews top donors to Iran sanctions think tank

Formerly bipartisan Foundation for Defense of Democracies now draws key contributions from Jewish GOP supporters

June 25, 2013
8:12 am

An oil refinery in Tehran. (photo credit: AP/file)

South Korea pledges 15 percent cut to Iran oil imports

From the web Sources tell Reuters that Seoul will trim economic activity with Tehran to come in line with US sanctions aimed at stopping nuclear program

June 20, 2013
11:23 pm

Hasan Rowhani speaking to the press Monday. (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Americans tout reformist’s rise as proof Iran sanctions working

Voices begin calling for Washington to ease off penalties after relative moderate Hasan Rowhani voted into presidency in Tehran

By Marjorie Olster

June 4, 2013
7:44 pm

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

Russia, China set to pressure Iran on nuke inspections

Two powers will call on Tehran to cooperate with IAEA investigation of its nuclear program

By Aaron Kalman

May 18, 2013
3:56 am

North Korean army officers punch the air as they chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29 (AP/Jon Chol Jin)

UN panel: Sanctions delaying North Korea nuke program

International measures against Pyongyang have stifled, but not halted, unsanctioned nuclear project, Security Council finds

May 15, 2013
5:32 am

North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launch pad in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, in 2012. (AP/KCNA, File)

UN report: Sanctions delay North Korea’s atom bomb work

Topic: sanctions