In this Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, file photo, an Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)/ TEHRAN, Iran — A top Iranian nuclear official said that traces ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A top Iranian nuclear official said that traces of enriched uranium discovered at an underground bunker came from a "routine technical issue," the country's official/ Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh arrives for talks May 15 in Vienna ...
Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday -- a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles. In a report obtained by The Associated Press, the International ...
Iran is downplaying a report from U.N. inspectors that shows Tehran significantly upgraded uranium at one of its nuclear sites, a move that raises Western concerns that Tehran may have nuclear weapons ambitions. A report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday said ...
Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili addresses a news conference after a meeting in Baghdad, May 24, 2012. Iran and world powers agreed to meet again in Moscow next month for more talks to try to end the long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme, but there was scant progress to ...
A file photo, shows Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak 150 miles southwest of Tehran, the negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel./ A top Iranian nuclear negotiator said ...
World powers negotiators arrive at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear ...
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and head of Iran's national security council Saeed Jalili (R) chats as he poses with European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (L) before a meeting in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 23, 2012, as six world powers lay out a new package of proposals in ...
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, speaks during a press conference, in Baghdad on May 24, 2012, following two days of talks between the P5+1 group of world powers and Iran (ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/GettyImages)/ BAGHDAD, May 25 (Reuters) - Iran and world powers agreed to meet again next ...
on Saturday downplayed as a "technical" issue a report by the UN atomic watchdog revealing that uranium traces of a higher grade than any found before had been detected. Higher-than-expected traces of enriched uranium "are a normal technical issue that is being investigated by ( International ...
has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a think-tank which closely tracks ...
report that said Iranian nuclear scientists had enriched uranium to a higher-than-expected level, "This matter is a routine technical discussion that is currently being reviewed by experts," "Paying attention to these minor and technical issues that also exist in the enrichment facilities of ...
The U.N's nuclear agency said Friday said it had found traces of uranium enriched at an Iranian site to a level that is slightly closer to the threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles than the previous highest-known enrichment grade. Iran said the find was a technical glitch, according to the ...
Analysts have played down the UN atomic agency's discovery of higher-grade uranium traces in , saying it was likely due to a technical glitch rather than a covert attempt to enrich to arms grade. The agency's latest report, seen by AFP Friday, did however say that satellite imagery showed ...
Iran's insistence that world powers acknowledge what it sees as its right to enrich uranium emerged as a significant difference in international talks on its nuclear energy programme this week, a senior U.S. administration official said. Speaking after two days of discussions between Iran and ...
In this Tuesday, May 15, 2012 file photo, Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh speaks to journalists as he arrives for talks with the IAEA, at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria. The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never ...
World powers negotiators arrive at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear ...
By Jonathan Tirone and Indira A.R. Lakshmanan on May 25, 2012/ Iran increased its output of enriched uranium that world powers are concerned may eventually be used for a nuclear weapon, according to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. While the United Nations agency verified that Iran ...
The UN atomic watchdog said Friday that it found traces of higher-grade uranium at a site in had said it may be down to a technical error, a day after crunch talks in Baghdad. The agency's latest report, seen by AFP, also said that satellite imagery showed "extensive activity" at the Parchin ...
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear has found traces of uranium enriched at an Iranian site to a level that is slightly closer to the threshold needed to arm says in a report that its experts have found particles enriched up to 27 percent. That is higher than the 20 percent declared by and closer to ...
U.N. nuclear inspectors have found uranium traces in an Iranian underground site refined to a somewhat higher level than the enrichment work normally done there, but still well below the weapons-grade threshold, diplomatic sources said on Friday. One source said the higher level detected at the ...
and world powers agreed to meet again next month to try to ease the long standoff over its nuclear work despite achieving scant progress at talks in towards resolving the main sticking points of their dispute. At its heart is Iran's insistence on right to enrich uranium and that economic ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not ease sanctions on "As we lay the groundwork for these talks, we will keep up the pressure as part of our dual-track approach. All of our sanctions will remain in place and continue to move forward during this period," she told reporters in ...
Ali Akbar Dareini,Lara Jakes, The Associated Press/ and six world powers have wrapped up talks, still far apart over how to oversee 's atomic program but with resolve to keep dialogue going as an alternative to possible military action. Envoys said Thursday they will meet again next month in ...
and six world powers achieved little in two days of intense nuclear talks in next month and establishing they are poles apart on crucial issues. The latest diplomatic push between Iran and the P5+1 -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- at one stage even looked ...
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic agency has found evidence at an underground bunker in that could mean the country has moved closer to producing the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles, diplomats said Friday. has found traces of uranium enriched up to 27 percent at Iran's enrichment ...
ended Thursday with a plan to meet next month for another round of talks but agreement on little else. The open channels between Iran and the six-nation bloc — the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany — are seen as the most hopeful chances of outreach between Washington and ...
U.N. nuclear inspectors have found uranium traces in an Iranian underground site refined to a somewhat higher level than the enrichment work normally carried out there, but still well below potential weapons-grade material, diplomatic sources said on Friday. One source said the higher level ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States' top negotiator in Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will "reaffirm our unshakeable commitment to Israel's security," according to a department statement. Iran and six world powers, including the U.S., met in Baghdad this week to ...
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will be in Tel Aviv Friday "to reaffirm our unshakeable commitment to Israel's security," according to a department statement. Iran and six world powers, including the U.S., met in Baghdad this week to discuss halting Iran's nuclear ...
Iran�s IAEA envoy says highlighting, politicising can damage cooperation between Iran and the agency * Iranian media expresses pessimism about Moscow talks TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday downplayed a report by the UN atomic watchdog that uranium traces have been detected of a higher grade than any ...
World powers negotiators arrive at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear ...
World powers negotiators arrive at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear ...
The U.N. nuclear has found traces of uranium enriched at an Iranian site to a level that is slightly closer to the threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles. The International Atomic Energy Agency says in a report that its experts have found particles enriched up to 27 percent. That is higher ...
With an EU embargo on Iranian oil set to come into force on July 1, two weeks after the next meeting in the Russian capital on June 18-19, Iran in particular cannot afford to keep avoiding the key issues indefinitely IRAN and world powers cannot afford to come away from their next round of ...
Iran has played down a United Nations report that said Iranian nuclear scientists had enriched uranium to a higher-than-expected level, state media reported on Saturday. On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that samples taken in February showed particles with enrichment ...
The nuclear agency has not been able to inspect any sites attacked by the US and Israel last year/ The UN's nuclear watchdog has said it is "increasingly concerned" about a nuclear facility in Iran which it has not been allowed to inspect. Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency ...
The strike hit a building at Nasser hospital containing the surgical wards and intensive care units/ At least six people have been killed and about 20 injured in an Israeli air strike on Nasser hospital, the biggest in the southern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Eyewitnesses ...
The US removed all its bombers from the UK's RAF Fairford base last month after a major incident in September that police described as "suspicious"/ The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced charges against three Iran-backed operatives that it alleges were involved in a string of plots in ...
A top Democratic senator has blamed a crackdown on independent journalism in Egypt on a decision by the Trump administration to waive human rights conditions on US military funding to the country. Chris Murphy, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused the US government of ...
Many Syrians say their economic situation has worsened in the last two years amid a cost-of-living crisis/ Last month, protests erupted in squares and streets across Syria. People burned tyres, blocked roads and chanted slogans, angry at the government's decision to raise fuel prices again. It ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Partial results from Israel's general election show veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marginally ahead of his rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, but still short of a majority in parliament. With 99% of ballots ...
Neither Gadi Eisenkot (left) or Benjamin Netanyahu (right) are projected to win enough seats for a majority/ With 85% of votes counted after Tuesday's election, neither the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, nor the bloc of his key challenger Gadi Eisenkot look set to have ...
Between 150 and 200 people were in the church at the time of the shooting, according to one witness/ Seven people have been killed in an attack on a funeral in central Jordan, officials have said. At least 34 others were injured as gunmen opened fire on a church in Hmoud, in the Karak ...
At rush hour in Nazareth, the largest Arab-majority city in Israel, students are handing out leaflets by the roadside urging motorists to vote in next week's closely fought, general election. Polls indicate that Arab parties could be left holding a critical balance of power. Disaffection has ...
right minister Ben Gvir (left) has significant support among Israeli youth/ When Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, reached voting age, he was rejected from Israel's army for being too politically extreme. His views have not changed much in the 30 years since then - ...