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Founding editor:
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Writer: George Jahn

April 5, 2013
2:18 pm

Saeed Jalili, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, left, shakes hands with Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov in Almaty on Friday. (photo credit: AP/Shamil Zhumatov, Pool)

Iran, world powers ‘long way apart’ on nuke deal, Western official says

Sides reportedly at odds over sanctions relief, final outcome of process and timing of confidence building measures

By George Jahn

April 3, 2013
12:54 am

International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano gives an interview at his office in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (photo credit: Hans Punz/AP)

UN nuke chief fears Iran secretly working on a bomb

Intelligence shows Tehran was and is involved in nuclear weapons project, says International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano

By George Jahn

March 21, 2013
4:23 pm

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a joint news conference, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

US, Israel worried about possible Iran plutonium reactor

Tehran could have enough of the radioactive element to produce a nuclear weapon without enriched uranium

By George Jahn

March 12, 2013
3:18 pm

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, left, Resistance fighter Katharina Sasso and Chancellor Werner Faymann attend Monday's unveiling of a plaque honoring Austrians killed by the Nazis. (Hans Punz/AP)

Austria marks annexation by Germany 75 years ago

Official expressions of remorse follow worrying new survey showing how Nazis are remembered

By George Jahn

March 6, 2013
8:11 pm

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

US accuses Iran of nuke ‘deception and delay’

Chief American delegate to UN watchdog also suggests Washington might push for tougher diplomatic action in coming months

By George Jahn

February 21, 2013
8:42 pm

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

Iran installed new advanced centrifuges, UN says

IAEA report confirms 100 new units placed in Natantz facility, marking a significant boost to Tehran’s enrichment capacity

By George Jahn

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 5, 2013
3:45 am

Demonstrators protest against Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi prior to his speech at the German Council Of Foreign Relations, a think tank for foreign policy, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The German phrase on the poster reads: 'Comprehensive and immediate UN-Sanctions against the Mullahs in iran.' (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)

Iran’s nuclear standoff reaching tipping point

Ahead of another round of talks, neither Tehran nor world powers show any sign of backing down

By Brian Murphy and George Jahn

January 18, 2013
10:22 pm

Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), talks to media after his arrival from Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, Friday. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

UN experts return from Tehran empty-handed

IAEA team fails to seal nuke deal; delegation head says the two sides will meet again in one month

By George Jahn

December 21, 2012
6:53 am

95-year-old Austrian soprano Hilde Zadek delivers a speech to the parliament in Vienna, after being awarded the Great Medal of Honor of the Austrian Republic on August 31, 2012. (photo credit: Parlamentsdirektion/Bildagentur Zolles KG/Jacqueline Godany/AP)

Jewish soprano still singing in Vienna at the age of 95

Early in her career, Nazi sympathizers tried, and failed to derail Hilde Zadek’s budding career

By George Jahn

December 13, 2012
4:18 am

Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, speaks to the press before his flight to Iran, at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, Wednesday, Dec. 12 (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

New UN, EU efforts to engage Iran over nuclear concerns

While Europeans try to renew talks, IAEA seeks evidence of weapons work on the ground

By George Jahn

December 1, 2012
12:52 am

Iranian technicians work at a facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, outside Isfahan, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

IAEA: Leaked Iranian graph on nuclear weapons is flawed, but supports suspicions that Tehran’s vying for a bomb

Documents show Iran ran computer simulations for a nuke with triple the explosive force of the one used on Hiroshima

By George Jahn

November 30, 2012
5:41 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal launch the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna. (Ronald Zak/AP)

UN chief opens interfaith center sponsored by… Saudi Arabia

Speech focuses on need to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict; critics question Saudi promotion of religious pluralism

By George Jahn

November 16, 2012
11:00 pm

Iran poised to expand nuke work, says IAEA

New IAEA report warns Tehran could be ready within months to produce the core of a nuclear warhead

By George Jahn

November 11, 2012
12:59 am

The Israeli nuclear reactor at Nahal Sorek (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/ Flash 90)

Mideast nuke talks called off after Israel declines to attend, says diplomat

US to make official announcement on cancellation of Helsinki meeting in coming days

By George Jahn

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: George Jahn

Iran, world powers ‘long way apart’ on nuke deal, Western official says

Sides reportedly at odds over sanctions relief, final outcome of process and timing of confidence building measures

UN nuke chief fears Iran secretly working on a bomb

Intelligence shows Tehran was and is involved in nuclear weapons project, says International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano

US, Israel worried about possible Iran plutonium reactor

Tehran could have enough of the radioactive element to produce a nuclear weapon without enriched uranium

Austria marks annexation by Germany 75 years ago

Official expressions of remorse follow worrying new survey showing how Nazis are remembered

US accuses Iran of nuke ‘deception and delay’

Chief American delegate to UN watchdog also suggests Washington might push for tougher diplomatic action in coming months

Iran installed new advanced centrifuges, UN says

IAEA report confirms 100 new units placed in Natantz facility, marking a significant boost to Tehran’s enrichment capacity

Watchdog says Iran upgraded centrifuges for nuke program

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

Iran’s nuclear standoff reaching tipping point

Ahead of another round of talks, neither Tehran nor world powers show any sign of backing down

UN experts return from Tehran empty-handed

IAEA team fails to seal nuke deal; delegation head says the two sides will meet again in one month

Jewish soprano still singing in Vienna at the age of 95

Early in her career, Nazi sympathizers tried, and failed to derail Hilde Zadek’s budding career

New UN, EU efforts to engage Iran over nuclear concerns

While Europeans try to renew talks, IAEA seeks evidence of weapons work on the ground

IAEA: Leaked Iranian graph on nuclear weapons is flawed, but supports suspicions that Tehran’s vying for a bomb

Documents show Iran ran computer simulations for a nuke with triple the explosive force of the one used on Hiroshima

UN chief opens interfaith center sponsored by… Saudi Arabia

Speech focuses on need to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict; critics question Saudi promotion of religious pluralism

Iran poised to expand nuke work, says IAEA

New IAEA report warns Tehran could be ready within months to produce the core of a nuclear warhead

Mideast nuke talks called off after Israel declines to attend, says diplomat

US to make official announcement on cancellation of Helsinki meeting in coming days

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