VIENNA -- The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for mo...

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday defended its election as the rotating chair of the world's sol...

With tension building on both shores of the Gulf, the stakes are high for regional governments as well as the international community as they could threaten shipping in the Straits of Hormuz as well as create domestic turmoil in both the Gulf states and Iran.

JERUSALEM — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held out hope Sunday for a nonmilitary way to ending the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, but he a...

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, April 17 (Reuters) - Iran is increasing the number of advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges installed at its...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday defended his country's controversial nuclear programme while on a tour of west Africa, calling it peac...

TEHRAN, Iran — With words of defiance, Iran announced two nuclear-related projects Tuesday that expand capabilities to extract and process urani...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Six nations and Iran worked Friday to find common ground at negotiations that would satisfy both Tehran's demands for internatio...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Iran and world powers trying to curb Iran's nuclear progress are coming to the negotiating table this week with the window ...

JERUSALEM -- Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to pr...

By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI, March 3 (Reuters) - Iran is building about 3,000 advanced uranium-enrichment centrifuges, Ir...

VIENNA, March 1 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said he sees a chance to improve ties with the United States, despite a longrunning standoff with ...

ALMATY, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Major powers will offer Iran some sanctions relief during talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, this week if Tehran agrees to curb...

By Marcus George DUBAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Days before resuming talks over its disputed atomic programme, Iran said on Saturday it had...

While the collective punishment delivered by the sanctions has been devastating, it has ultimately failed to deter the Iranian regime from developing nuclear capacity. Instead, it has generated a great deal of resentment.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran is citing the latest report by U.N.'s nuclear watchdog as evidence of the allegedly peaceful nature of the country's atomic progr...

VIENNA — U.N. nuclear inspectors recently counted nearly 200 advanced machines fully or partially installed at Iran's main uranium enrichment si...

By Angus McDowall RIYADH, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Fears that an Iranian nuclear weapon might trigger an atomic arms race across the Middle ...

DUBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Iran will never shut down its Fordow uranium enrichment plant, a senior legislator was quoted as saying on Sunday, brushin...

Iran tried to smuggle thousands of specialized magnets through China for its centrifuges, in an effort to speed its path to reaching nuclear weapons c...

VIENNA — Adding weight to its announcement of a nuclear upgrade, Tehran has shown high-level U.N. officials high-tech equipment positioned at it...

By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Iran acknowledged on Tuesday that it was converting some of its higher-grade enriched ura...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has agreed to hold talks with six world powers in Kazakhstan on Feb. 26 over its nuclear program, Iranian state TV said Tues...

BERLIN, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday he saw U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden's offer this weekend of bilat...

By Adrian Croft and Alexandra Hudson MUNICH, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it was open to a U.S. offer of direct talks on its nuclear progr...