Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday a breakthrough in talks in Vienna to revive a nuclear deal before he leaves office in August requires a “will” beyond his power. Rouhani is Iran’s main architect of the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, which was torpedoed by former US president Donald Trump in 2018. But the […]
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Iran’s Rouhani says new nuclear steps will ‘accelerate’ its nuclear work: TV
DUBAI: Iranian President Rouhani said on Wednesday that new steps to further scale back Tehran’s commitments under a 2015 pact with major powers will accelerate Iran’s nuclear activity, state TV reported. “We will announce (cuts in commitments) which will accelerate the activities of Iran’s nuclear program,” Rouhani was quoted as saying by Iran’s state TV.
Russia says INF arms treaty dead ‘at the initiative of the US’
MOSCOW: Moscow on Friday announced the formal end of a major Cold War-era nuclear arms deal, after Washington launched the process to pull out of the INF treaty this year. The treaty — concluded in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — limited the Cold War powers’ medium-range missiles, […]
Iran says it will not extend 60-day nuclear deal deadline: Tasnim
Iran will not extend a 60-day deadline for it to start pulling out of more commitments agreed under its nuclear deal, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said on Wednesday. Iran stopped complying in May with some commitments in the 2015 nuclear deal that was agreed with global powers, after the United […]
Supposedly executed former North Korean nuclear envoy is alive: CNN
North Korea’s nuclear envoy, who a South Korean newspaper said last week had been executed, is alive but in custody and under investigation for his role in a failed summit with the United States, CNN reported on Tuesday. There has been a series of conflicting reports over the past five days about shakeups in the […]
EU urges Iran to respect nuclear deal, regrets US sanctions
The European Union on Thursday urged Iran to respect the international agreement curbing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions, and added that the bloc aims to continue trading with the country despite US sanctions. The EU and major European powers — Britain, France and Germany — also said that they “note with great concern the statement […]
Nuclear powers and poverty in South Asia
India tested its first nuclear device on May 24, 1974, at Pokharan in its Rajasthan desert. Raja Ramanna, the leader of the team, is said to have informed then prime minister Indira Gandhi that “Buddha Smiles”. India continued to vigorously pursue its nuclear programme. On May 11, 1998, it conducted three more nuclear tests at […]
N Korea’s Kim oversees test of new weapon with ‘powerful warhead’
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has supervised the test-firing of a new tactical weapon with a “powerful warhead,” state media reported on Thursday, in the first test of its kind since nuclear negotiations with Washington stalled. The test marks a ratcheting up of tensions weeks after a summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump […]
Nuclear prospects of South Asia
In the last decade and thereafter Pakistan’s nuclear programme has received a further boost since Jul y 2005 when the US and Indian governments unveiled their nuclear cooperation agreement. A basic feature of this agreement is that by acquiring uranium from foreign sources and by placing a set of nuclear facilities on the military list […]