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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel he says proves Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

November 27, 2018, 5:54 am

US reportedly tells Israel it will press IAEA to probe Iran’s nuclear archives

After Israel complains to envoy, Trump administration to push UN agency to examine documents retrieved in Mossad op in Tehran

By Eric Cortellessa

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan, waits for the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, November 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

November 22, 2018, 4:07 pm

UN atomic watchdog says Iran still complying with nuclear deal

Tehran said sticking to its obligations, despite US withdrawal from accord and implementation of fresh sanctions

By AP

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan, addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, June 4, 2018. (Ronald Zak/AP)

November 12, 2018, 6:05 pm

UN nuclear watchdog says Iran remains within 2015 deal limits

In quarterly report, IAEA says Tehran abiding by limits on atomic activity, providing access to all sites and ‘timely and proactive cooperation’

By KIYOKO METZLER

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (R) tours the Karnei Shomron settlement on October 2, 2018 with local council chairman Yigal Lahav. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

October 2, 2018, 8:13 pm

Liberman: We have info on other nuclear sites in Iran and Lebanon

Defense minister says Israel will release intel when time is right; blasts Beirut for ‘manipulatively’ bringing reporters to site of alleged missile factory 3 days after PM speech

By Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York September 27, 2018, holding up a picture of an alleged Iranian 'atomic warehouse (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

October 2, 2018, 7:57 pm

Hitting back, Netanyahu says nuke watchdog hasn’t checked Iran site he revealed

PM rejects claim by IAEA chief that all relevant facilities were visited, calls on agency to visit alleged Tehran ‘atomic warehouse’ with Geiger counters right away

By TOI staff

October 2, 2018, 2:30 pm

IAEA chief rebuffs Netanyahu, says it has ‘visited’ all relevant Iran sites

After PM claims he told UN agency about alleged secret Tehran site, director Amano insists all necessary locations have been accessed

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks on CBS's 'Face the Nation' on September 30, 2018. (Screen capture: CBS News)

September 30, 2018, 9:29 pm

Iranian FM: Holocaust no excuse for Israel’s ‘apartheid policy in Palestine’

Asked in CBS interview about Iran’s president comparing Trump to the Nazis, Zarif says Rouhani was referring to US president’s ‘xenophobic tendencies’

By TOI staff

September 30, 2018, 11:18 am

Iran FM: Netanyahu has made ‘wrong’ claims on nuclear program since 1992

After PM reveals ‘secret atomic warehouse’ in Tehran, Zarif claims Israeli leader using it as ‘smokescreen’

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to address the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York September 27, 2018. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

September 29, 2018, 8:50 pm

Netanyahu was to reveal ‘third site’ in speech on Iran, but intel chiefs said no

Along with details of Tehran atomic warehouse and Hezbollah missile factories in Beirut, PM planned to expose additional intel haul, but defense heads recommended against it

By TOI staff and Raphael Ahren

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, holds up a placard showing a suspected Iranian atomic site while delivering a speech at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

September 29, 2018, 8:00 pm

Iran scrambling to cover up newly revealed nuclear site, Israeli official says

Senior source asserts Netanyahu’s announcement of Tehran warehouse has caused ‘growing pressure’ in Islamic Republic; claims 15kg of radioactive material was moved out in August

By Raphael Ahren

An Iranian poses outside the site identified by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a secret Iranian nuclear facility on September 28, 2018 (Twitter)

September 28, 2018, 9:58 pm

Israel: IAEA was told Iran site had ‘forbidden nuclear material,’ yet didn’t act

Senior Israeli official tells Channel 10 the facility is under the supervision of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, named earlier this year by Netanyahu as head of Iran’s nuclear program

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (R) in New York, September 27, 2018 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

September 28, 2018, 8:22 pm

PM asks UN secretary-general to request IAEA investigation of Iran nuclear sites

Netanyahu wants inspections of warehouse whose existence he revealed in UNGA speech; also meets Rwandan president to discuss Iranian aggression

By TOI staff

Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a placard of suspected Iranian atomic sites while delivering a speech at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

September 28, 2018, 1:58 pm

US official calls Netanyahu’s Iran nuclear warehouse claim ‘somewhat misleading’

State Department official urges IAEA to investigate Israeli revelation of secret Tehran storehouse containing ‘equipment and material’

By JTA and TOI staff

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a meeting to promote the elimination of nuclear weapons, during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday September 26, 2018 at UN headquarters (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

September 28, 2018, 3:19 am

Iran derides PM’s ‘arts & crafts show,’ says ‘world will laugh’ at nuke claims

After Netanyahu reveals ‘secret atomic warehouse’ in Tehran, Islamic Republic’s FM says Israel is ‘only regime in our region with a secret and undeclared nuclear weapons program’

By TOI staff

In this photo from February 13, 2017, Gholamali Khoshroo, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters. (AP Photo /Mark Lennihan)

September 20, 2018, 11:47 am

Iranian envoy asks UN to censure Israel, supervise its nuke program

Entreaty from ambassador comes after Israeli nuclear official says Jewish state working to protect nuclear facilities from Iranian threats

By TOI staff