Iran's nuclear program

File: Rafael Grossi (C), director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opens the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on November 22, 2023. (Joe Klamar / AFP)

November 24, 2023, 3:30 pm

Fear of Israel-Hamas war spreading said to restrain West from Iran nuclear crackdown

Concern over potential regional war stops IAEA Board of Governors from passing binding resolution on Tehran’s defiance of nuclear watchdog, diplomats say

By AFP and ToI Staff

IAEA inspectors at Iran's nuclear power plant in Natanz on January 20, 2014. (IRNA/AFP Kazem Ghane/File)

November 16, 2023, 1:12 am

Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is 22 times above 2015 deal’s limit, says IAEA

UN nuclear watchdog decries Tehran’s ongoing ban on its inspectors, says their ouster in September has seriously affected agency’s work

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli F-35 fighter jets escort an American B-52 bomber through Israeli airspace on November 10, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

October 6, 2023, 4:55 am

Giving unheard-of assent to Saudi nuclearization, Israel girds for Cold War with Iran

After Tehran proved how little the international community will do to stop nuclear proliferation, Israel knows Riyadh may eventually have the bomb. Maybe that’s the point

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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)

September 27, 2023, 2:04 am

US ‘open to diplomacy’ on nuclear program, wants to see de-escalatory steps from Iran

Amid reports of Japanese initiative to revive talks, State Department says Tehran should move to reduce tensions and ‘create a space for diplomacy’

By ToI Staff

A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking before students and clerics during a rally in Tehran on July 12, 2023. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

September 26, 2023, 8:19 pm

Iranian leader said to okay direct talks with US on reviving nuke deal

Report by UK-based Amwaj.media claims backchannel contacts already lowering tensions, with Tehran seeking to pick up negotiations where they left off before collapse a year ago

By ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on during a meeting with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in New York, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Bing Guan/Pool Photo via AP)

September 23, 2023, 4:50 am

Blinken: Iran not a ‘responsible actor’ on nuke program after booting UN inspectors

US secretary of state says Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear program a ‘profoundly destabilizing element,’ Biden administration ‘determined that Iran never acquire a nuclear weapon’

By ToI Staff

Far-right leaders Itamar Ben Gvir (L) and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 22, 2023, 10:24 pm

Ben Gvir: Far-right will bolt coalition if Saudi deal sees Palestinian concessions

Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism will not countenance any such moves, he warns, after Netanyahu’s UN speech; Lapid slams PM for ignoring Saudi nuclear demands, judicial overhaul

By ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows a map of "Israel in 1948" as he addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 22, 2023. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

September 22, 2023, 7:42 pm

Netanyahu tells UN that Israel ‘at the cusp’ of historic peace with Saudi Arabia

With Saudi diplomat in attendance, PM offers vision of ‘new Middle East’ and AI-enabled future, but ignores bitter fight over judicial overhaul back home and on NYC streets

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses a red marker on a map of 'The New Middle East' as he addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

September 22, 2023, 6:30 pm

Full text of Netanyahu’s UN address: ‘On the cusp of historic Saudi-Israel peace’

The PM predicts the potential blessing of ‘a new Middle East,’ says ‘fanatics’ leading Iran will try to stop it, urges Palestinians to ‘finally embrace’ the Jewish state

Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks during an interview ahead of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 18, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)

September 18, 2023, 8:15 pm

IAEA chief warns of consequences if Iran does not reaccredit nuclear inspectors

Rafael Grossi also says he’s concerned over military build-up at Russian-occupied nuclear plant in Ukraine, but unruffled over Putin-Kim Jong Un meet, Fukishima wastewater release

By Maria Danilova

US citizens Siamak Namazi (R), Emad Sharqi (L) and Morad Tahbaz (C) disembark from a Qatari jet upon their arrival at Doha International Airport in Qatar on September 18, 2023, following a prisoner swap between the United States and Iran. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

September 18, 2023, 6:39 pm

Five US prisoners freed from Iran after long ordeal, in exchange for frozen funds

Some $6 billion released under accord represent funds owed by South Korea for oil; two Iranian prisoners held in US for illegally obtaining military and lab equipment also released

By Jon Gambrell, LUJAIN JO and Matthew Lee

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

An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector disconnects the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium production at the nuclear research centre of Natanz, some 300 kilometers south of Tehran, Iran, on January 20, 2014. (KAZEM GHANE/IRNA/AFP)

September 16, 2023, 8:03 pm

In ‘unprecedented’ move, Iran bars 1/3 of UN inspectors from accessing nuclear sites

IAEA chief slams ‘profoundly regrettable’ Iranian decision, warns it will harm agency’s capacity to monitor nuclear program; Tehran claims ‘political’ use of watchdog by West

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami addresses during the funeral ceremony for five members of the Guard killed in Syria, in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

September 14, 2023, 9:31 pm

Revolutionary Guards chief warns Israel’s life ‘will be cut short’ if it attacks Iran

After Mossad chief threatens top Iranians over global plots against Israelis and Jews, Hossein Salami claims Islamic Republic’s ‘satanic’ enemies are weakened and depressed

By ToI Staff

September 14, 2023, 2:13 pm

European powers, US warn Iran over unexplained nuclear materials

Washington, London, Paris and Berlin tell IAEA that if Iranians don’t provide explanations needed, UN atomic agency will need to take further action to hold Tehran accountable

By ToI Staff and Agencies