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European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Netanyahu: Some in Europe won’t wake up until Iran nukes land on them
By TOI staff and Agencies
After EU says Iran’s latest violations of nuclear deal not sufficient to reimpose sanctions, PM compares bloc’s response to pre-WWII attempts at appeasement with the Nazis
In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with a group of clerics, in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
July 16, 2019, 4:03 pm
Iran’s Khamenei vows to respond to UK’s seizure of tanker
Supreme leader says ‘vicious acts’ will not go unanswered, also declares Tehran will further breach 2015 nuclear deal
By Agencies and TOI staff
European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
July 15, 2019, 9:42 pm
Netanyahu: Some in Europe won’t wake up until Iran nukes land on them
After EU says Iran’s latest violations of nuclear deal not sufficient to reimpose sanctions, PM compares bloc’s response to pre-WWII attempts at appeasement with the Nazis
By TOI staff and Agencies
In this April 9, 2018 file photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark "National Nuclear Day," in Tehran, Iran. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)
July 15, 2019, 1:22 pm
EU seeks to deescalate Persian Gulf tensions
Foreign ministers want Iran to respect the terms of the deal, aim to drum up further support for bloc’s barter-type system to trade with Tehran and get around US sanctions
By Raf Casert
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt speaks to the media at Stansted Airport, north of London on June 3, 2019. (ISABEL INFANTES / AFP)
July 15, 2019, 12:20 pm
Ahead of EU talks, UK calls for reduced tensions with Iran
British foreign secretary appears to warn Tehran of consequences over breaching nuclear deal
By AFP
An undated promotional handout still from the Iranian state TV series, 'Gando,' shows actor Payam Dehkordi, center, who plays a character apparently based on Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, among other actors. (Mohammad Bagheri/TV series, 'Gando,' via AP)
July 14, 2019, 8:26 pm
Iran spy TV show glorifies hard-liners imprisoning US reporter
‘Gando’ is based on the case of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who was held by Iranians for 18 months on charges of espionage
By Jon Gambrell
President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with the Health Ministry officials, in Tehran, Iran, June 25, 2019. (Official website of the Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
July 14, 2019, 7:35 pm
Rouhani says Iran prepared to talk to US if it rejoins nuclear deal
European signatories to the 2015 accord call for end to the escalating tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program, say pact’s survival contingent on ‘full compliance’
By TOI staff and AFP
US President Donald Trump signs a Presidential Memorandum withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, on May 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
July 14, 2019, 2:27 am
UK ambassador to US cabled home that Trump ditched Iran deal to spite Obama
In second batch of leaked cables, Kim Darroch said White House was dead set on ‘diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons’
By AFP
In this Sept. 6, 2015, file photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stands prior to a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
July 12, 2019, 3:31 am
US reportedly backs off threat to sanction top Iranian diplomat Zarif
‘Cooler heads prevailed,’ source tells Reuters, weeks after Mnuchin said new penalties on the foreign minister would be announced in coming days
By TOI staff
Multinational ship in formation in the Persian Gulf May 21, 2013, during an International Mine Countermeasures Exercise. (Michael Sandberg/US Navy)
July 12, 2019, 1:30 am
US may form joint naval force in Gulf to combat tanker troubles
Mission would provide military escorts for commercial vessels moving though strategic waterway, reviving 1987-1988 effort to protect Kuwaiti ships from Iranian harassment
By Paul Handley
Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018, in New York City, and holds up a picture of what he said was a secret Iranian nuclear warehouse. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)
July 11, 2019, 8:44 pm
TV: IAEA finds traces of radioactive material at Iran site flagged by Netanyahu
10 months after PM identified ‘secret atomic warehouse’ in Tehran, UN inspectors reportedly conclude that it was indeed used as a nuclear storage facility
By TOI staff
The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) flutters in front of the IAEA building in Vienna on July 10, 2019. (ALEX HALADA / AFP)
July 10, 2019, 8:10 pm
UN nuclear agency confirms Iran enriching uranium to 4.5%, exceeding deal cap
At emergency IAEA meeting, US urges world powers to reject ‘nuclear extortion’ from Tehran, which is seeking economic relief to offset American sanctions
By TOI staff and Agencies
US President Donald Trump meets with Qatari Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (not shown) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on July 9, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)
July 10, 2019, 6:18 pm
Trump warns Iran sanctions will ‘soon be increased substantially’
US president says Tehran has long been enriching uranium ‘in total violation’ of nuclear deal, as IAEA meets to discuss Iran breaching the pact’s limits
By Agencies
Lebanese President Michel Aoun (R) shakes hands with Nizar Zakka (C), a Lebanese national and US resident arrested in Iran in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in jail on espionage charges, after he was freed at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut on June 11, 2019.(ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
From the WebJuly 10, 2019, 12:38 pm
Iran’s release of Lebanese prisoner said to be failed overture to US
Sources tell Reuters that June release of businessman with US permanent residency, after 4 years in prison, was meant as an opening for talks between Washington and Tehran
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/ AP)
July 9, 2019, 9:14 pm
Iran’s Zarif hints US, Israeli demands for zero enrichment will backfire
Tehran warns that the last time pair tried to stamp out country’s uranium enrichment program, it only increased ‘100-fold’
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in New York, September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Ludovic Marin)
July 9, 2019, 3:26 pm
French president’s top adviser in Tehran in bid to save nuclear deal
Official to try to deescalate rising tensions after Macron and Rouhani agreed on July 15 deadline to solve current impasse
By Agencies and TOI staff
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