Iran Uranium

Iran: Enriched Uranium Traces A 'Technical Issue'

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.27.2012

TEHRAN, Iran — A top Iranian nuclear official said that traces of enriched uranium discovered at an underground bunker came from a "routine tech...

Iran -- Nuclear Weapons, Not Energy

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 04.23.2012

Rizwan Ladha

Iran claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but the majority of the rest of the world questions this assertion. And for good reason.

The Time for Diplomatic Action in Iran

William Rose | Posted 04.29.2012

William Rose

We've got to seize the opportunity to offer incentives which persuade Iran's interests and draw them from prestige to economic development.

U.S. Spy Plane Shot Down In Iran: Report

AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 09.19.2011

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that was trying to gather information on an underground uranium enrich...

Iran's Nuclear Program Ramps Up With New Centrifuges

AP | By NASSER KARIMI | Posted 09.18.2011

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Tuesday it was installing new and efficient centrifuges aimed at speeding up its nuclear enrichment amid fears Tehran is mov...

Iran To Triple Output Of Higher Enriched Uranium

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 08.08.2011

VIENNA — An article praising the idea of Iran testing a nuclear bomb on a Revolutionary Guard website is raising alarms in western intelligence ...

Zimbabwe Reportedly To Sell Uranium To Iran

The Telegraph | Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg | Posted 05.25.2011

Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Zimbabwe's foreign minister, said the sanctions -- which prohibit member states from providing Iran with raw materials that it...

Iran Claims New Nuclear Capability

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran delivered a resolute message Sunday on the eve of talks with six world powers: We're mining our own uranium now, so forget a...

Stuxnet Virus May Be Source Of Iran's Nuclear Problems

Yahoo! News | Fredrik Dahl | Posted 05.25.2011

VIENNA (Reuters) -- Iran has been experiencing years of problems with equipment used in its uranium enrichment program and the Stuxnet computer virus ...

Ahmadinejad: Iran May End Uranium Enrichment

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Iran would consider ending higher level uranium enrichment, the most crucial part of its controversial nuclear activities, if world p...

Iran & Turkey Agree To Uranium Swap In Nuclear Deal

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran agreed Monday to ship much of its low-enriched uranium abroad and then rolled out a new obstacle to nuclear compromise by in...

Ahmadinejad: Despite Cooperation With West, We Will Not Retreat "Even An Iota" Over Nuclear Right

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

VIENNA, Austria — Iran has given an initial response to a plan that calls for Tehran to ship most of its enriched uranium abroad, the Internatio...

UN: Once-Secret Iran Nuclear Facility To Start In 2011

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

VIENNA — Iranian construction of a previously secret uranium enrichment site is at an advanced stage, with high-tech equipment already in place ...

Iran Decision On Uranium Deal Eagerly Awaited

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran put off until next week a formal response to a U.N.-backed plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for enrichment, the co...

Secret Document Exposes Iran's Nuclear Trigger (VIDEO)

timesonline.co.uk | Catherine Philp i | Posted 05.25.2011

Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. ...

Iran, West Both Fear A Trap On Nuclear Deal

nytimes.com | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Just before international inspectors on Sunday were guided for the first time into an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant whose existence w...

Iran: Uranium Counter-Offer Draws Harsh Rebuke

AP | NASSER KARIMI and SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN — Iran insists on simultaneously exchanging its low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel produced overseas, the state news agency said Frida...

Ahmadinejad: Iran Will Enrich Uranium Even More

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

VIENNA — In a defiant speech, Iran's president declared Wednesday that his country will enrich uranium to a much higher level – a fresh re...

Iran May Ship Only Part Of Its Uranium Abroad

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran hinted Monday it could agree to ship some low-enriched uranium abroad for processing as reactor fuel as the world awaited it...

Report: Iran Seeking To Smuggle Raw Uranium From Kazakhstan

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

VIENNA — Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intellige...

Iran Agrees To Send Enriched Uranium To Russia

New York Times | Steven Erlanger and Mark Landler | Posted 05.25.2011

Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to interna...

Major Breakthrough on the Iranian Nuclear Issue

Bruno Pellaud | Posted 05.25.2011

Bruno Pellaud

Having the low-enriched uranium shipped to Russia in the very near future is a major achievement for the Obama administration, and a significant gesture of good will on the part of Iran.

Left, Right & Center: Iran Nukes, Global Warming Denied, G-20 and US Banks

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

HuffPost Radio

The G-20 revelations regarding the secret Iranian uranium enriching facility: What are the options for taming Iran's nuclear ambitions? And in the mar...

Secret Israeli Report: Venezuela, Bolivia Supplying Iran With Uranium For Its Nuclear Program

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtai...

US May Accept Iran's Uranium Pursuit

Financial Times | Daniel Dombey | Posted 05.25.2011

US officials are considering whether to accept Iran's pursuit of uranium enrichment, which has been outlawed by the United Nations and remains at the ...