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Iran Nuclear Program

IAEA Report: Iran Significantly Upgrades Nuclear Program

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.22.2013 | World

VIENNA — The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclea...

Sanctions Are No Medicine for the Iran-U.S. Standoff

Sara Afzal | Posted 05.20.2013 | World
Sara Afzal

Most Iranians would obviously be strongly opposed to war and the tortoise-paced path to diplomacy with the U.S. is of less concern than living day-to-day in a stagnant economic climate, where food prices become more and more expensive and basic medical needs are not satisfied.

Iran Says It's Ready To Resume Nuke Talks

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2013 | World

By Parisa Hafezi ISTANBUL, May 16 (Reuters) - Iran is prepared to pursue nuclear diplomacy with world powers before or after next mont...

'Like Putting Jack The Ripper In Charge Of A Women's Shelter'

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2013 | World

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

Matt Sledge

Iran Sanctions Bill Draft Would 'Create The Path For A Disastrous War'

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- An Iran sanctions bill being drafted by a bipartisan group of senators would make regime change the official U.S. policy toward the countr...

Bibi: Iran Has Not Yet Reached 'Red Line'

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 04.29.2013 | World

JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister on Monday said that Iran is steadily edging closer to nuclear weapons capability but has not yet reached the...

Hagel: Israel, U.S. See 'Exactly The Same' Iran Threat

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.22.2013 | World

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...

Iran Reportedly Speeding Up Nuclear Program

Reuters | Posted 04.17.2013 | World

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

'We Don't Need An Atomic Bomb'

Agence France Presse | | Posted 04.15.2013 | World

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

Defiant Iran Launches 2 New Key Nuclear Projects

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 04.09.2013 | World

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

Iran Opens New Uranium Mines, Yellow Cake Plant

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2013 | World

DUBAI, April 9 (Reuters) - Iran opened new uranium mines and a yellow cake production plant on Tuesday, state news agency IRNA reported. ...

Nuclear Talks Reopen Between Iran, Six Nations

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 04.05.2013 | World

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

The Man Who Turned Iran Nuclear

BBC News | Zubeida Malik | Posted 03.30.2013 | World

In a rare interview, the man dubbed "the father of Iran's nuclear programme" tells how the project began under the Shah, who wanted to leave the optio...

Obama's Choice: Real Diplomacy With Iran -- or War

Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Posted 05.22.2013 | World
Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett

The United States is reaching the end of its ability to threaten ever more severe sanctions against third countries doing business with Iran -- but rarely implement such "secondary" sanctions -- without eroding the deterrent effect of the threat.

Obama and the Iranian Nowruz: A 2009 Redux?

Richard Javad Heydarian | Posted 05.21.2013 | World
Richard Javad Heydarian

I have anxiously reflected on this year's Nowruz greeting by Obama as potentially a 2009 redux. Back then, Obama squandered a chance to make a deal with Iran, because (a) he was too impatient for Iran's complex decision-making dynamics and (b) refused to hear out Iran's fundamental demands.

Obama: U.S. Will Do 'What Is Necessary' To Stop Iran Nuclear Weapons

AP | Posted 03.20.2013 | World

JERUSALEM -- President Barack Obama is warning Iran that the U.S. will "do what is necessary" to prevent the Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. O...

Obama to Israel: I'm Proposing We Let Iran Enrich Some Uranium

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.20.2013 | World
Richard Grenell

As President Obama makes his way across the Middle East, much of the region will likely be as perplexed as Israel to learn of his new policy of contradicting the very institutions and allies he claims to support.

Good News for Obama Before His Trip -- Israel Unlikely to Bomb Iran in 2013

Dan Raviv | Posted 05.18.2013 | World
Dan Raviv

Although no one in Israel is leaking any details, it's understood that intelligence agencies -- led by the foreign operations agency, the Mossad -- are highly active in covert operations against Iran's nuclear work. There, too, sources say there is unprecedented cooperation with the United States.

The WMD Lesson: CIA Strives To Avoid Mistakes Of The Past

Agence France Presse | Dan De Luce | Posted 05.15.2013 | World

US spy agencies still live under the shadow of disastrous intelligence failures that paved the way for the Iraq war, and now face a crucial test as th...

The Senate's 10-Year Iraq War Anniversary Gift: War With Iran

Jamal Abdi | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics
Jamal Abdi

The resolution, S.Res.65, is rightly being called a backdoor to war with Iran -- a convenient way to plunge the U.S. into war without a messy public debate but instead automatically, based on when Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu decides to pull the trigger.

Obama: Iran "Over A Year Or So" Away From Nuclear Bomb

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 03.14.2013 | World

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...

International Sanctions: Iran Feels the Psychological Impact

James Dorsey | Posted 03.13.2013 | World
James Dorsey

Struggling to maintain its place in Asia's top tier, Iranian soccer is a reflection of a country laboring under the burden of a repressive political regime and not only the economic but increasingly also the psychological effect of international isolation and punishing sanctions.

3 Facts to Note in 2013 Worldwide Threat Assessment Report

Trita Parsi | Posted 05.12.2013 | World
Trita Parsi

Almost ten years to the day of the foolish invasion of Iraq, the discrepancy that existed between the media description of the Iraqi threat and the non-manipulated assessment of the U.S. intelligence community is being seen again -- but this time on Iran.

Iran, Nukes and Jesus

Shayne Lee | Posted 05.12.2013 | World
Shayne Lee

More profound than the U.S. and Israel's lack of rational legality and absence of moral authority, is their failure to provide cogent evidence that a nuclear Iran poses an existential threat to Israel or any other nation.

'Iran Is The Greatest Danger To Peace In The World'

AP | Posted 03.12.2013 | World

STRASBOURG, France -- The president of Israel on Tuesday called the Iranian regime "the greatest danger to peace in the world" and appealed to EU lawm...