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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
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
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)
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
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in Tehran on June 13, 2015. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
June 13, 2015, 5:52 pm
Rouhani: We won’t give our state secrets to foreigners
Iranian president stresses refusal to allow inspection of military sites; says new demands by world powers slow progress to deal
By AFP and TOI staff
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