Iran Nuclear

IAEA Session: US Says It Has "Serious Concern" That Iran Can Create A Bomb

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


VIENNA — The United States says it has "serious concerns" that Iran is deliberately trying – at a minimum – to preserve a nuclear we...

Gates: Victory In Iraq And Afghan Wars Challenge But Achievable (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera | Posted 11.08.2009 | World


In a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara, Gates spoke about the US strategy for peace in Afghanistan facing a "war of necessit...

Ahmadinejad: Iran "Will Never Negotiate" Over Nuclear Rights

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.23.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday Iran will neither halt uranium enrichment nor negotiate over its nuclear rights but is ...

Iran Says US Nuke Documents 'Forged'

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


VIENNA — Iran accused the U.S. on Friday of using "forged documents" and relying on subterfuge to make its case that Tehran is trying to build a...

Iran's Nuclear Threat Hyped: UN Watchdog

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 10.18.2009 | World


VIENNA — The global threat posed by Iran's suspect nuclear program is "hyped" because there's no hard proof that Tehran has an ongoing effort to...

Iran Has A New Nuclear Program

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's top nuclear negotiator offered an opening Tuesday for possible compromise with the West, saying the Islamic regime is read...

Sarkozy Threatens Iran With "Severe" Sanctions Over Nuclear Program, Election Crackdown

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 09.26.2009 | World


PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy criticized Iranian leaders for their handling of contested elections and their nuclear program, and pleaded fo...

Iran Lifts Ban, Allows UN Inspectors Access To Nuclear Reactor

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.20.2009 | World


VIENNA — Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater moni...

Iran Calls For Ban On Striking Nuke Facilities

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.12.2009 | World


VIENNA, Austria — Iran, whose nuclear facilities are under threat of possible Israeli military strikes, proposed Wednesday that a 150-nation con...

Israel: Brazil Can Help Stop Iran's Nuclear Program

AP | MARCO SIBAJA | Posted 08.22.2009 | World


BRASILIA, Brazil — Israel's foreign minister met with Brazil's president Wednesday and asked Latin America's biggest nation to use its influence...

Iran Nuclear Reactor To Be Switched On This Year, With Russian Help: AP

AP | Posted 08.22.2009 | World


MOSCOW — Russian news agencies quote the country's nuclear agency chief as saying a Russian-built nuclear power reactor in Iran is still set to ...

Iran Nuclear Talks: EU Excluded

BBC News | Posted 08.01.2009 | World


The EU is no longer qualified to take part in talks on Iran's nuclear programme, Iran's military chief says. Maj Gen Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran's chief...

Kerry: Iran's Nuclear Enrichment For Energy Is Its Right

Financial Times | Posted 07.12.2009 | World


One of the most senior Democrats in Washington has dismissed a key element in the west's long standing strategy on Iran's nuclear programme as "ridicu...

Iran's Main Nuclear Plant Expanding Rapidly, Says IAEA

Telegraph | David Blair, Diplomatic Editor | Posted 07.09.2009 | World


Month by month, experts chart how Iran installs more centrifuges inside its underground plant in Natanz, where these machines are used to enrich urani...

Iran Nuclear Assessment May Have Been Tainted By Iranian Intelligence "Ruse"

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 07.04.2009 | World


WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - A report on Iran's nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories p...

Obama: Iran Nuclear Energy Concerns Legitimate

AP | NANCY ZUCKERBROD | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


LONDON — President Barack Obama reiterated that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations ar...

What if the Israelis Were to Bomb Iran?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...

Why Iranians Want Nukes: Analysis

Foreign Policy | Posted 06.19.2009 | World


In their talks today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama will no doubt have discussed the uncomfortable subject...

'We Are Neither Obstinate Nor Gullible': Ahmadinejad Interview

Spiegel | Posted 05.11.2009 | World


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke with SPIEGEL about what he expects from US President Barack Obama, why America's new Afghanistan strategy ...

Netanyahu To Obama: Stop Iran, Or I Will

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


In an exclusive interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Tuesday, just before he was sworn in as Israel's new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu...

Haneen Zuabi, New Arab-Israeli Knesset Member, Praises Iranian Nuclear Ambitions

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


New Balad MK Haneen Zuabi, the first woman to be elected to the Knesset as a representative of an Arab party, has welcomed Iran's growing influence on...

Iran Tests Its First Nuclear Power Plant

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 03.28.2009 | World


BUSHEHR, Iran — Iranian and Russian engineers carried out a test-run of Iran's first nuclear power plant Wednesday, a major step toward starting...

Iran And The Future Of Afghanistan

Council on Foregin Relations | Greg Bruno and Lionel Beehner | Posted 03.09.2009 | World


In crafting a new approach to the war in Afghanistan, U.S. military and political leaders say Iran-once dubbed a member of the "axis of evil" by ...

Needing Coercive Diplomacy to Deal with Iran

Joshua Gleis | Posted 01.26.2009 | World


Joshua Gleis

It must be made clear that the use of force is still most definitely on the table. Without the coercive threat of force, diplomacy with Iran will surely fail.

Israeli Military Preparing Options For Iran Strike

Jerusalem Post | YAAKOV KATZ | Posted 01.04.2009 | World


The IDF is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post h...