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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) arriving for a military parade in Pyongyang marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, in an April 15, 2017 picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 16, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
April 26, 2017, 7:38 pm
What the North Korea crisis says about the Iranian nuclear deal
Despite more stringent restrictions on Iran’s program, its regional ambitions could make it a greater threat with nukes than Kim Jong-un’s rogue state
By Ron Kampeas
File photo showing the interior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, October 27, 2004. (AP/Fars News Agancy, File)
January 14, 2016, 8:48 pm
Iranian technicians finish removing nuclear reactor’s core
Disabling of Arak heavy-water facility is a key component of Tehran’s obligations under atomic deal with world powers
By AP
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
November 21, 2015, 4:44 am
Israel has 115 nuclear weapons, says US think tank
New report alleges Israel produced some 660 kg of plutonium at Dimona nuclear facility over past 50 years
By TOI staff
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani waves to reporters at the conclusion of a press conference in Tehran, Iran, August 29, 2015. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 16, 2015, 7:22 pm
Iranian leader: P5+1 members to help modernize Arak reactor
Rouhani says nuclear deal has enabled ‘rapid growth’ in research and development
By Stuart Winer
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, speaks during a joint press conference with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, at UN Headquarters in Vienna, Austria, in April 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Dieter Nagl)
April 10, 2014, 5:11 am
Iran claims ’50 to 60 percent agreement’ on nuke deal
EU policy chief Ashton, less upbeat, says next round of talks in May will aim to ‘bridge the gaps in all key areas’
By JTA, AP and TOI staff
Iran's heavy water nuclear facility, near the central city of Arak (AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan/File)
March 18, 2014, 9:15 pm
Large senate majority warns of Iran sanctions slippage
AIPAC lauds letter to Obama outlining core principles on nuclear negotiations, including ‘no path’ to an atomic bomb
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi (L) shakes hands with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano, during their meeting in Tehran on November 11, 2013. (AFP/File Atta Kenare)
February 6, 2014, 5:43 pm
Iran says it can reassure West over nuclear reactor
Nuclear chief says design of the Arak heavy water plant can be modified to limit plutonium production
By AFP
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, left, and US defense secretary Robert Gates arrive for a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 19, 2007. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
January 15, 2014, 1:51 pm
Israel’s intel succeeded where US failed on Syria nukes, Gates reveals
Ex-defense secretary’s tell-all memoir details Israeli strike on Assad’s nuke facility, implies parallels with current Iran dilemma
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman testifies on Capitol Hill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Oct. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Molly Riley)
December 5, 2013, 5:22 am
US may seek partial dismantling of Iran’s heavy water reactor
Negotiator Wendy Sherman says Washington ‘not sure’ why Teheran would need Arak facility ‘for any civilian peaceful purpose’
By Yoel Goldman and JTA
Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Tehran (photo credit: AP/ISNA/Hamid Foroutan/File)
November 27, 2013, 2:57 pm
Iran vows to continue work at Arak plutonium site
Foreign minister also tells Iranian parliament that uranium enrichment up to 5% will continue; British negotiator in Israel
By Spencer Ho
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani delivers a speech during his campaign for the presidential election in Tehran, Iran, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
November 10, 2013, 9:52 am
Iran won’t bow to threats, sanctions, Rouhani says
President says Tehran draws ‘red line’ on domestic uranium enrichment, calls on world powers to grab ‘exceptional opportunity’
By TOI staff
Brian Thomas
November 7, 2013, 1:58 pm
Brian Thomas
Arafat and polonium, a bunch of bolony-um
Why recent support for claims the Palestinian leader was lethally irradiated is no more than junk science
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, in white, addressing the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/ Ministry of Defense)
October 23, 2013, 6:10 pm
All enrichment in Iran must stop, defense minister says
Moshe Ya’alon admits fear of West getting duped by Iran, expresses skepticism over diplomatic solution in Syria
By Mitch Ginsburg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters during a press conference, Tuesday, October 8, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
October 8, 2013, 8:42 pm
Netanyahu sticks to his guns on Iranian enrichment
PM says there’s ‘nothing wrong with diplomacy’ — if Tehran relinquishes its centrifuges and stops producing plutonium
By Stuart Winer
Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the IAEA, left, and Iran's former Ambassador to the international atomic agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, speak to media after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna in May (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)
May 23, 2013, 7:27 am
IAEA: Iran expanding nuclear technology
Report shows Tehran is wasting no time in quest for the bomb, enriching uranium and producing plutonium
By George Jahn
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