Iran nuclear deal

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi holds up a Quran as he addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, September 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Addressing UN, Iran president calls on US to show ‘goodwill’ and revive nuclear deal

Raisi also accuses Washington of worsening Ukraine war; Israeli envoy stages walkout for second straight year, holding sign reading, ‘Iranian women deserve freedom now’

September 20, 2023, 2:43 am

Addressing UN, Iran president calls on US to show ‘goodwill’ and revive nuclear deal

Raisi also accuses Washington of worsening Ukraine war; Israeli envoy stages walkout for second straight year, holding sign reading, ‘Iranian women deserve freedom now’

By ToI Staff, AFP and Jacob Magid

US President Joe Biden addresses the 78th UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

September 19, 2023, 8:00 pm

Biden: Israel normalization delivering results amid ‘tireless’ 2-state solution push

Addressing UN, US president also touts commitment to stopping Iran from getting nukes; Guterres decries ‘escalating violence, bloodshed in the occupied Palestinian territory’

By AP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors (2nd and 3rd left) and Iranian technicians at the Natanz nuclear power plant, south of Tehran, on January 20, 2014. (Kazem Ghane/IRNA/AFP/File)

September 17, 2023, 6:26 pm

‘Highly concerned’ EU urges Iran to reaccredit inspectors barred from nuclear sites

European bloc says it’s ‘particularly worrying’ that the move will hamper the UN watchdog’s ability to monitor Iran’s nuclear program

By AFP

A handout picture made available by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him (C) visiting an exhibition of the country's nuclear industry achievements in Tehran, on June 11, 2023, accompanied by the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami (R) (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

September 15, 2023, 2:47 pm

Iran rails at EU and UK for maintaining sanctions set to expire under nuclear deal

Tehran accuses bloc and 2015 agreement’s European signatories of having ‘malicious intentions,’ as Britain says sanctions to remain due to ‘continued Iranian non-compliance’

By AFP

Left: US President Joe Biden holds a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam on September 10, 2023 (SAUL LOEB / AFP); Right: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking before students and clerics during a rally in Tehran on July 12, 2023. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

September 10, 2023, 5:55 pm

US, Iran may begin moving forward with prisoner swap next week — report

$6 billion in frozen Iranian funds said expected to reach Qatar within days, triggering mutual release of inmates; Iran will be able to access money only for humanitarian purchases

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Robert Malley, the Biden's administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the Iran nuclear deal during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/File)

September 3, 2023, 6:04 pm

Iranian claims about suspension of ex-US envoy Rob Malley shake up Washington

Tehran Times publishes ostensible letter informing diplomat that his security clearance is ‘suspended pending an ongoing investigation’ amid ‘serious security concerns’

By Amir Bar Shalom

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives at an event at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

August 20, 2023, 8:57 pm

Minister says Israel may be open to Saudi uranium enrichment under normalization deal

Close Netanyahu confidant Ron Dermer says Jerusalem would ‘have to look at what ultimately is agreed upon’; Lapid argues allowing such a move would endanger Israel’s security

By Canaan Lidor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden, in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

August 15, 2023, 12:56 am

US-Iran deal doesn’t mean full nuclear pact is next — but it shows Israel’s limits

Iran has little reason to run toward a new deal now, but prisoner agreement last week underscores that the Netanyahu government has minimal influence on Washington’s Iran policy

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 30, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

August 12, 2023, 11:27 pm

PM scorns US-Iran deal unfreezing Iranian assets in exchange for release of prisoners

Netanyahu says Israel opposes any deal with Iran that doesn’t include dismantlement of nuclear program, arguing that any funds Tehran receives will be funneled to militias

By Jacob Magid

Iranian students burn a US flag during a demonstration denouncing the burning in Sweden of the Quran, Islam's holy book, in front of Swedish embassy in Tehran on July 21, 2023. (AFP)

August 12, 2023, 9:23 am

What’s behind the tentative US-Iran agreement involving prisoners and frozen funds

Deal could see the release of five US-Iranian citizens held by Tehran in exchange for release several billion dollars in frozen Iranian funds held by South Korea

By Jon Gambrell and Matthew Lee

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements, at his office compound in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Via AP)

August 11, 2023, 10:34 pm

Iran reportedly slowing some nuclear enrichment, diluting high-grade stockpile

Wall Street Journal says Tehran has watered down some material enriched to 60%

By ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen seen during an interview at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

August 9, 2023, 10:22 am

FM: Saudi deal with US defense pact would make Gulf nuclear ambitions ‘unnecessary’

Foreign minister Eli Cohen says security treaty would reassure Washington’s regional allies that they are protected from Iranian aggression, and negate the need for atomic weapons

By ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

June 29, 2023, 11:49 am

US reportedly complains to Israel over leaks to media about Iran nuclear talks

US National Security Adviser Sullivan said to express frustration to Israeli counterpart Tzachi Hanegbi over Netanyahu’s comments on potential new deal with Tehran

By ToI Staff

Posters bearing the portraits of Israelis recently killed by Palestinian terrorists, with 'revenge' written underneath them in Hebrew, are plastered along the Tapuach junction bus station in the West Bank, guarded by Israeli soldiers, on June 25, 2023. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

June 28, 2023, 8:49 pm

Blinken: West Bank unrest makes Israel-Saudi deal much ‘tougher, if not impossible’

Warning is starkest yet from US, which had previously only acknowledged through anonymous officials that Israeli policies have ‘tainted’ normalization efforts

By Jacob Magid

In this handout photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours Israel Aerospace Industries headquarters, June 18, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

June 18, 2023, 6:57 pm

Netanyahu says Israel opposes nuclear ‘mini-agreements’ with Iran

PM’s comments at cabinet meeting come amid mounting reports of advanced negotiations between Washington and Tehran

By ToI Staff