The United States on Tuesday warned Iran to stop nuclear “brinksmanship,” saying the country’s latest efforts to enrich uranium could complicate its return to talks aimed at restarting the 2015 nuclear accord. “We continue to urge Iran to stop this brinksmanship, to return to Vienna prepared for real talks, and to be in a position […]
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Iran endangering nuclear talks, say European powers
European powers expressed “grave concern” on Tuesday over Iran’s latest move to enrich uranium in its nuclear programme, saying the step endangered talks in Vienna aimed at reviving a 2015 accord seeking to resolve the crisis. “With its latest steps, Iran is threatening a successful outcome to the Vienna talks despite the progress achieved in six […]
New generation protests Pacific’s nuclear legacy 75 years on
Seventy-five years after the US military began using the Marshall Islands as a nuke testing ground, a new generation fired-up by climate activism is demanding justice. When the Able atomic bomb was detonated at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946, Alson Kelen’s family were among those forced from their palm-fringed ancestral homes. For decades, complaints […]
Iran ‘examining’ whether to extend IAEA monitoring deal
Iran is “examining” whether to extend an agreement to allow the UN to monitor some of its nuclear activities, government spokesman Ali Rabii said Tuesday. Questions around IAEA cameras and other surveillance tools are part of broader talks underway in Vienna to try to salvage Iran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal with major powers. Iran restricted […]
Iran says ‘no decision’ taken to erase nuclear site tapes
Iran said Monday it had taken “no decision” to delete footage from surveillance cameras installed at some of its atomic energy facilities by the UN nuclear watchdog the IAEA. The issue is part of broader talks underway in Vienna aiming to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that has been hanging by a thread since […]
US, France must take final decisions on nuclear deal: Iran
Iran on Friday said world powers must take any final decisions to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, after France and the United States suggested that time was running out. “The opposing sides are the ones who must take the decisions,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement. The remarks came after French […]
US, France warn Iran that time running out to revive deal
The United States and France on Friday warned Iran that time was running out to return to a nuclear deal, voicing fear that Tehran’s sensitive atomic activities could advance if talks drag on. On the first high-level visit to Paris by President Joe Biden’s administration, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his French hosts saluted […]
France calls on Iran to take ‘final decisions’ to revive nuclear deal
France on Friday urged the Iranian government to take the “final decisions” to allow the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, through the re-entry of the United States to an accord it walked out of in 2018. “We expect the Iranian authorities to take the final decisions — no doubt difficult ones — which will […]
Iran says foils sabotage attack on atomic energy agency building
Iran said it foiled a sabotage attack Wednesday on an atomic energy agency building in a mysterious incident that comes as the US blocked Iran-linked websites and as talks to revive a nuclear deal progressed. State television said a “sabotage operation against one of the buildings (of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran) was foiled” […]
Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant shut down over ‘technical fault’
Iran’s southern Bushehr nuclear power plant has been temporarily shut down over a “technical fault”, the country’s atomic energy body said in a statement. “Following a technical fault at Bushehr power plant, and after a one-day notice to the energy ministry, the plant was temporarily shut down and taken off the power grid,” the Atomic […]