Iran's nuclear program

Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 18, 2022, 3:32 am

Gantz leaves to US for security talks centered on Iran, Ukraine

Defense Minister urges regional coordination against Iran ahead of meetings with top Biden adviser Sullivan and Pentagon chief Austin; itinerary does not mention Abu Akleh death

By TOI staff

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

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

In this September 21, 2016, file photo, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

May 7, 2022, 2:26 pm

EU suggests IRGC terror delisting compromise in attempt to save Iran nuke talks

Bloc policy chief Borrell tells newspaper that overall US designation could be lifted, with the restrictions remaining on certain parts of the organization

By TOI staff and Agencies

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP, File)

April 29, 2022, 1:30 am

UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has moved centrifuge workshop to underground facility

International Atomic Energy Agency confirms machines moved to Natanz for better protection, after sabotage blamed on Israel at several plants

By Agencies and TOI staff

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, receives an explanation while visiting an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, April 9, 2022. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

April 27, 2022, 2:54 am

White House says Iran is ‘a few weeks or less’ from bomb breakout

‘It definitely worries us’: US blames Trump administration for Iran’s nuclear development, urges diplomatic solution, as talks remain stalled

By TOI staff

Ali Motahari, a former member of Iran's Parliament, the Majles, in an interview to Iranian media, on April 24, 2022. (Screen grab/YouTube/MEMRI)

April 25, 2022, 11:05 pm

Ex-Iranian MP: It was always Iran’s intention to build a nuclear bomb

‘There is no need to beat around the bush,’ former parliament member Ali Motahari says; he argues Iran’s failure was not keeping its plans a secret for long enough

By TOI staff

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi reviews the army troops parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, outside Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2022. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

April 18, 2022, 10:26 am

Raisi: If Zionists make ‘tiniest move’ against us, we’ll target center of regime

Iran’s president tells military parade Iranians are watching Israel closely, adds that the strength of the armed forces deters Tehran’s enemies

By AP and TOI staff

April 17, 2022, 11:26 am

Iran confirms moving centrifuge facility allegedly hit by Israel to underground site

Iranian atomic energy organization says Tehran ‘obliged to intensify security measures’ by shifting some machinery to Natanz, which was also a target of reported Israeli attacks

By AP

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

April 9, 2022, 5:24 pm

Iran’s Raisi says nation will not back down ‘an iota’ from its nuclear rights

President hails Tehran’s atomic achievements on Nuclear Technology Day, as negotiations in Vienna to revive 2015 deal drag on

By TOI staff and Agencies

April 7, 2022, 9:42 am

Iran has moved centrifuge work from site allegedly hit by Israel to Natanz — IAEA

Move comes just weeks after Tehran said it set up another site for producing centrifuges in Isfahan, where UN watchdog doesn’t have access to data collected by its cameras

By Agencies and TOI staff

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

April 6, 2022, 5:52 pm

Iran says it gave answers on suspect uranium traces to UN nuclear watchdog

Head of country’s Atomic Energy Organization blames Israel for ‘sowing doubts’ about the nature of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program

By Nasser Karimi

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud speak to reporters at the State Department in Washington, Oct. 14, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

March 29, 2022, 10:53 am

Blinken calls Saudi FM hours after Arab foreign minister summit in Israel

State Department says Iran nuclear program, Yemen discussed; kingdom’s state media says US secretary of state spoke with Prince Faisal on regional security cooperation

By TOI staff and Agencies

United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, makes remarks at the Negev Summit, with from left, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, March 28, 2022, in Sde Boker, Israel. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

March 29, 2022, 6:44 am

For Israel, the Negev Summit was all about Iran. For other participants, not so much

Foreign diplomats involved say Tehran wasn’t what brought them to Sde Boker, as each country has its own concerns that justify participation in first-of-its-kind gathering

By Jacob Magid