Iran nuclear deal

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during a conference at Herzliya’s Reichman University, May 17, 2022. (Gilad Kvalarchik/Gilad Kvalarchik)

May 17, 2022, 11:06 am

Gantz: Iran ‘weeks from enough fissile material for bomb,’ adding 1,000 centrifuges

Defense minister warns cost of dealing with Iran will be higher in a year; warns Tehran against transfer of advanced weapons to proxies; says Israel’s position on Ukraine ‘ethical’

By Emanuel Fabian

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell attends a plenary session titled 'Transforming for a New Era,' during the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital, on March 26, 2022. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

May 13, 2022, 11:31 pm

EU claims stalled Iran talks ‘reopened’ after envoy’s Tehran visit

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says that a final deal is now achievable; visit by EU envoy Enrique Mora went ‘better than expected’

By AFP

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (Stringer/AFP)

May 13, 2022, 10:38 am

Biden seen personally resisting IRGC terror delisting, dividing Democrats

Moderate Dems back US president’s stance against the IRGC, seen as a key obstacle to renewed nuclear deal, while progressives warn he has fallen into Trump’s trap

By Ron Kampeas

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, right, shakes hands with President Ebrahim Raisi during an official arrival ceremony at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, on May 12, 2022. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

May 12, 2022, 9:34 pm

Qatar and EU working to revive stalled negotiations with Iran

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani meets Iranian leaders in Tehran as EU envoy holds second day of meetings with Iran’s negotiator in an effort to revive talks

By Payam DOOST MOHAMADI

National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata speaks during the IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 21, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

May 12, 2022, 7:07 pm

Israel not trying to drag US into military conflict with Iran, PM adviser says

With talks stalled for months, Eyal Hulata quoted saying Israel doesn’t see confrontation with Tehran as solution; suggests new, good agreement rather than a return to the old one

By TOI staff

Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, right, shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the start of their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, March 27, 2022. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

May 11, 2022, 12:32 pm

As EU nuclear envoy visits, Iran detains 2 Europeans for plotting ‘chaos’

Iranian intelligence ministry does not specify nationality of those held; European Union’s Enrique Mora arrives to discuss reviving 2015 deal under negotiation in Vienna

By Nasser Karimi

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi shows the inner of a case of an IAEA monitoring device during a press conference in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP/Michael Gruber)

May 11, 2022, 12:44 am

UN nuclear agency ‘extremely concerned’ by Iranian silence on undeclared sites

IAEA head Rafael Grossi says Tehran has refused to clarify evidence of illicit uranium enrichment, as EU’s Mora heads back to Iran in bid to get nuke talks back on track

By AFP

Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, left, shakes hands with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani in Tehran, Iran, March 27, 2022. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

May 9, 2022, 1:50 pm

EU intermediary to visit Iran amid stalled nuclear talks

The yet-unfinalized visit by coordinator Enrique Mora is a move in the ‘right direction,’ according to Iranian foreign ministry

By AFP

Iranians prepare to set an Israeli flag on fire next to a picture of late Iranian general Qasem Soleimnai during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) day in Tehran, on April 29, 2022. (AFP)

May 5, 2022, 11:12 pm

US Senate passes non-binding motion against return to original Iran nuclear deal

16 Democrats vote in favor of symbolic measure demanding more restrictions against Iran, keeping Revolutionary Guard Corps on terror list

By Jacob Magid

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi talks during an interview with Associated Press in Kyiv, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

April 27, 2022, 6:23 pm

IAEA chief raises alarm over nuclear safety at Russian-controlled plant in Ukraine

Rafael Grossi says UN agency also working to clarify Tehran’s response to findings of traces of enriched uranium at three sites across Iran

By david keyton and Cara Anna

International Atomic Energy Organization director general Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, speaks with with Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, during their meeting in Tehran, on March 5, 2022. (AP)

April 26, 2022, 9:28 am

US close to admitting failure of Iran nuclear talks, Israeli officials claim

As Israeli, US national security advisers meet in Washington amid stalled Vienna negotiations, Tehran calls for return to talks and blames US

By TOI staff and AFP

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot, Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

April 14, 2022, 3:08 pm

UN atomic agency installs cameras at new Iranian centrifuge workshop

Installation of IAEA surveillance equipment, which will monitor production in facility at Natanz site, comes amid Western efforts to restore the nuclear deal with Tehran

By Jon Gambrell

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a televised New Year speech, in Tehran, Iran, on March 21, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

April 12, 2022, 9:29 pm

Khamenei says nuclear talks ‘going well,’ but shouldn’t determine the future of Iran

Iranian supreme leader blames the US for halted negotiations, urges Tehran’s representatives in Vienna to continue despite ‘America’s excessive demands’

By Agencies

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh speaks to media during a press conference in Tehran, on April 11, 2022 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

April 11, 2022, 2:33 pm

Iran says US not showing necessary will to revive nuclear agreement

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says he doesn’t know if a deal will be made

By AFP

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, speaks during a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bouhabib in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

April 10, 2022, 1:35 pm

Iran says US ‘imposing new conditions’ on issue of sanctions at nuclear talks

Iranian FM Amir-Abdollahian claims Washington has recently aimed to introduce fresh ‘excessive’ demands at Vienna negotiations on reviving 2015 pact

By AFP