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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files that prove Iran's nuclear program in a press conference in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

July 15, 2018, 10:15 pm

Seized archive shows Iran nuke project was larger than thought, had foreign help

Israel showcases to US reporters parts of trove Mossad spirited out of Tehran; ‘These guys were working on nuclear bombs,’ confirms ex-IAEA inspector on seeing the material

By TOI staff

A satellite image from September 15, 2017, of the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran. (Google Earth)

June 13, 2018, 8:47 pm

If deal fails, Iran threatens to enrich uranium beyond accord’s limitations

Spokesman for Tehran’s atomic energy organization says Fordo facility prepared for go-ahead from supreme leader

By Stuart Winer

In this frame grab from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, three versions of domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, in Iran, June 6, 2018. (IRIB via AP)

June 7, 2018, 8:05 pm

Iran shows off centrifuges as nuclear deal founders

Head of Iranian atomic agency gives interview from Natanz facility with advanced uranium enrichment equipment on display

By Jon Gambrell

Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, April, 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

June 6, 2018, 11:27 pm

Iran opens new nuclear facility for centrifuge production

Regime’s nuclear chief inaugurates Natanz plant, which will increase enrichment, but operate within the limits of nuclear deal

By Agencies

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also a member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team, speaks with journalists upon his arrival to Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, July 15, 2015. (AP/ Ebrahim Noroozi)

June 5, 2018, 2:19 pm

Iran tells UN it will hike uranium enrichment capacity, possibly from Wednesday

Tehran’s atomic agency chief says new center for producing centrifuges is about to open at Natanz, insists it doesn’t violate nuke deal

By AFP and TOI staff

Illustrative: An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency inspector cuts the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium enrichment at the Natanz facility, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, January 20, 2014. (AP/IRNA, Kazem Ghane)

June 5, 2018, 2:24 am

As nuke deal buckles, Iran says it is upping uranium enrichment capacity

Head of country’s atomic agency to inform IAEA of increased production of UF6 gas, meant to be injected into centrifuges banned from use under nuclear accord

By TOI staff

Iranian submarines and warships participate in a navy drill in the Sea of Oman in December, 2011 (AP Photo/Young Journalists Club, Mohammad Ali Marizad)

March 3, 2017, 3:31 am

Iran ‘will likely seek new subs, warships’ once arms ban expires in 2020

Tehran is set to capitalize on removal of international sales restrictions under nuclear deal, according to new US intelligence assessment

By TOI staff

Former US president Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, December 16, 2016. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

January 16, 2017, 6:20 pm

A year into nuke deal, White House says Iran ‘upholding its commitments’

Four days before Trump administration takes over, Obama’s team lauds agreement as ‘making the world safer’

By Eric Cortellessa

November 2, 2015, 12:59 pm

Iran has begun dismantling centrifuges, nuclear chief says

Atomic agency head Ali Akbar Salehi announces beginning of implementation of Vienna deal, as hard-line lawmakers said to complain

By TOI staff

In this May 30, 2015, file photo, US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Geneva, Switzerland, during negotiations on the future of the Iranian nuclear program. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

September 19, 2015, 7:19 pm

Full text of Kerry response to Horovitz op-ed

US Secretary answers a series of questions on Iran deal by Times of Israel editor that were read into the Congressional record by Rep. Joe Wilson

By TOI staff

Participants in the talks on the Iran nuclear deal pose for a group photo at the UN building in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2015. (Carlos Barria, Pool Photo via AP)

September 18, 2015, 4:50 am

Iran nuclear deal adoption to take place October 18

Controversial accord to be implemented next month; US says Tehran must take steps to satisfy IAEA before punitive measures removed

By JTA

Secretary of State John Kerry at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2015 (AP/Andrew Harnik)

September 18, 2015, 3:20 am

US starts carrying out Iran nuke deal, appoints coordinator

State Department names Ambassador Stephen Mull as atomic accord czar; Kerry vows to work with allies to deepen security cooperation

By AP and TOI staff

Dore Gold (EinGedi2 via Wikimedia Commons)

July 23, 2015, 2:27 am

Israel fears ‘major escalation’ by Iran-backed terror groups after deal

Foreign Ministry head Dore Gold says accord boosts Iran terror threat on Israel’s doorstep; admits clash with White House ‘uncomfortable’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and Raphael Ahren

File: An Iranian worker at the Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan, 410 kilometers south of Tehran, January 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

July 14, 2015, 4:51 pm

16 reasons nuke deal is an Iranian victory and a Western catastrophe

Op-Ed: Has Iran agreed to ‘anywhere, anytime’ inspections, an end to R&D on faster centrifuges, and the dismantling of its key nuclear sites? No, no, and no

By David Horovitz

Barack Obama (right) speaking to advisers Tony Blinken (foreground), and Ben Rhodes (background), regarding the Iran nuclear deal, on Sunday, November 24, 2013. (Pete Souza/White House)

June 27, 2015, 4:01 am

US official: Many concerns about Iran deal based on ‘myth’

Antony Blinken warns against keeping interim arrangement with Tehran as alternative to comprehensive agreement

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil