Iran said it has provided evidence to the United Nations atomic agency showing that documents on suspected nuclear bomb research by the country were forged and riddled with errors. In a statement to the International Atomic Energy Agency, it dismissed accusations that it is stonewalling an IAEA investigation into what the UN watchdog calls the […]
Khamenei tells Iran armed forces to build up ‘irrespective’ of diplomacy
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the armed forces should increase their combat capability regardless of political considerations, in an apparent allusion to continuing nuclear talks with the West aimed at easing tension in the Middle East. “Given our vast maritime borders and the enemy’s huge investments in this area, our armed […]
Time Is Running Out for Iran
By : Daniel Wagner * Just as has been the case every time nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West break down without agreement on fundamental issues, Supreme Iranian leader Khameini resumes lambasting the U.S. and Israel, and conservatives in the Iranian government rejoice. It is a well-rehearsed diatribe. Many of those conservatives control a […]
Iran’s leader Khamenei defiant on failure to reach nuclear deal
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, put a defiant face on the failure of negotiators to agree a comprehensive nuclear deal in Vienna this week, portraying the extension of the negotiations as a show of Iranian strength. “In the nuclear issue [talks], the US and arrogant European states did their best to bring Iran to […]
Iran Nuclear talks extended to end June , 2015
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said that Iran and world powers will miss Monday’s midnight deadline for a nuclear deal and have set a new date of June 30 next year. “It was not possible to get an agreement by the deadline…. We have therefore extended to June 30 2015,” Hammond said. Earlier, the […]
Iran nuclear talks miss deadline , set to resume next month
Iran and six world powers are expected to break off negotiations on Monday and meet again next month after missing a deadline to clinch a final deal to resolve their 12-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, diplomatic sources said. Details about the resumption of negotiations were still being worked out, though one source said on […]
Amid talks Israel weighs action against Iran
The nuclear agreement being negotiated between Iran and world powers is unpalatable to Israel, and may hasten the prospect of a military confrontation with Tehran, The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. As the globe’s six major nuclear powers inch toward a Nov. 24 deadline to strike a comprehensive deal with Iran, sources within Israel’s government […]
Nuclear talks may focus on extension soon, Iran says
Iran says that if obstacles remain in the talks about its nuclear program, the discussion will have to shift to extending them beyond Monday’s deadline. A member of the Iranian delegation said if that is the case Sunday night, the negotiations will focus on reaching a “general political agreement” on what both sides are committed […]
Iran supplied missiles to Hezbollah that can reach Dimona in Israel
Iranian sources have revealed that Hezbollah has received from Iran a new missile of great destructive capabilities and that can reach the “Dimona” nuclear reactor in southern Israel. The Fars News agency ” which is close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, reported on Saturday that the new missile is of the Fateh class or “conqueror” […]
British FS says ‘long way to go’ for Iran nuclear deal
Six world powers and Iran have a “long way to go” if they are to succeed in reaching a nuclear agreement by a deadline of next Monday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said. Hammond, speaking after arriving in Vienna where the talks are taking place, said Iran must show more flexibility in the negotiations on […]