VIENNA Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz spotted John Kerry as the secretary of state emerged from a creperie in Switzerland. Kerry thrust his arms upward, as if someone had just scored a goal. Moniz slapped him a vigorous double high-five. Astonished news photographers swung their lenses toward the celebration. Could this be a sign of a breakthrough ...

Washington has announced US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will accompany Secretary of State John Kerry to the Iran Nuclear Talks in Austria scheduled to start on Friday. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Iran and the six international negotiators, comprising the United States, China, France, Russia,...

U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will join U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for nuclear negotiations with Iranian officials in Geneva on Saturday, the U.S. Energy Department said in a statement on Thursday. Moniz, who will return to Washington on Sunday, has taken part in earlier rounds of the negotiations, which are seeking to curb Iran's nuclear ...

Without fanfare or hoopla, the NPT has succeeded in making the world a safer place. And now Tehran is back in the fold. Earlier this month, the United States and our P5+1 partners in coordination with the European Union reached a historic framework for a comprehensive deal with Iran that will ensure its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful going ...

(Reuters) - The United States and five other world powers would be able to detect any military capabilities of Iran's nuclear program for at least 10 years under a framework deal agreed upon earlier this month, the U.S. energy secretary said on Thursday. For 10 years at minimum, "we will have a very comfortable ability to detect any military activity ...

US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said the joint statement outlining the key parameters of a final nuclear deal issued in Lausanne on April 2 provides a "sound path" toward reaching a settlement to allay concerns regarding Tehran's nuclear program. The Lausanne statement provides a "technically sound path for certifying Iran's nuclear program ...

(Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and other senior U.S. officials will head to Capitol Hill next week to brief Congress on the framework nuclear deal with Iran, Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said at a news conference on Friday. By Reuters

At 10 p.m. on March 27, Secretary of State John F. Kerry strode through the carpeted hallways of the Beau-Rivage Palace hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, to speak with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif. As the two men sat alone in Zarifs suite, Kerry told him that the U.S. team was ready to abandon more than a year of nuclear negotiations ...

In an interview with POLITICO, the U.S. energy secretary describes previously unpublished provisions that make it harder for Iran to reconstitute its weapons program. Last weeks nuclear agreement with Iran closes what some experts had called a potentially major loophole that could make it easy for Iran to reconstitute its program, according to unpublished ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Giving a scientific defense of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz called the plan a "forever agreement" that would block all pathways to a nuclear weapon and set up tough international inspections with no end date. Moniz, a nuclear physicist, spoke at the White House on Monday as the Obama administration ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Top MP: Lausanne statement bodes well for Iran nuclear case The Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly said Monday what the government has done this year for the nuclear issue offers a bright prospect for the country, adding that the Lausanne statement is a good sign when ...

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said that the framework for a nuclear deal with Iran addresses every way the country could possibly get a nuclear weapon and gives the international community "unprecedented access and transparency" to Iran's nuclear infrastructure. There is a fair amount of concern about the deal - which would scale back Iran's nuclear ...

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says Washington would lift all sanctions imposed against Iran only when Tehran complies with the core nuclear restrictions. "On sanctions, I'll make it very, very clear: The sanction relief really kicks in only when they have complied with the core nuclear restrictions, Moniz said in an interview with CBS on Sunday....

Iran and the US have kicked off fresh nuclear talks over the Islamic Republics nuclear program in the Swiss city of Lausanne. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi and US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz met on Wednesday morning as part of efforts between Iran and the P5+1 aimed at reaching mutual understanding in the ...

Lausanne, March 30, IRNA Representatives of Iran and US are involved in technical and political talks in Lausanne, Switzerland. The technical talks are led by Iran Atomic Energy Organization Ali-Akbar Salehi and the US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and political talks are initiated by Iranian deputies foreign minister Abbass Araghchi and Majid Takht-...

President Obamas secret weapon in the last days of nuclear negotiations with Iran is Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a nuclear physicist and the administrations big brain in the talks. Moniz, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for four decades before joining the administration, is now serving as Secretary of State John ...

Lausanne, March 29, IRNA Iran and US foreign ministers concluded their hour-long negotiations here on Sunday. Mohammad Javad Zarif represented Iran in the talks while the Secretary of State Johan Kerry led the American delegation in the fourth day of talks. The session was held at Beau Rivage Palace Hotel. Iranian nuclear agency chief Ali ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s, Ernest J. Moniz was an up-and-coming nuclear scientist in search of tenure, and Ali Akbar Salehi, a brilliant Iranian graduate student, was finishing a dissertation on fast-neutron reactors. The two did not know each other, but they followed similar paths once ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s, Ernest J. Moniz was an up-and-coming nuclear scientist in search of tenure, and Ali Akbar Salehi, a brilliant Iranian graduate student, was finishing a dissertation on fast-neutron reactors. The two did not know each other, but they followed similar paths once they ...

[caption id="attachment_156195" align="alignright" width="186"] Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi (R) meets with US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in the Swiss city of Lausanne on March 17, 2015.[/caption] Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi holds a new meeting with US Energy ...