MNA "International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed Tehran's declaration that it is not seeking such weapons," said the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), reiterating the fact that nuclear weapons are not part of Iran's defense doctrine. "A country with Iran's strategic and security level and its civilization ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian cleric censured US officials for their repeated allegations against Tehran, saying that accusing Tehran of seeking a nuclear weapon or supporting terrorism demonstrates the continuationof previous hostilities toward the Islamic Republic. The allegations and accusations that have been leveled against Iran are "untrue ...

Tehran, Aug 6, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reiterated that the Islamic Republic of Iran has never been after nuclear weapon and has no intention to do so in future. Therefore, he said, the claim that the recent agreement in Vienna between Iran and P5+1 had closed the way to Irans access to nuclear bomb was in fact acquiring what ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh from a spirited defense of the Iranian nuclear deal on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State John Kerry is selling the accord to top U.S. foreign policy leaders while telling lawmakers that if they don't back the deal, Washington will have "squandered the best chance" it has to peacefully solve the nuclear standoff with Tehran. Kerry ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has reiterated the peaceful nature of Irans nuclear program, saying the Islamic Republic has never sought atomic bombs. The Islamic Republic of Iran has never been and will never be after building destructive and inhumane weapons, President Rouhani said in a meeting with senior Iranian military officials in Tehran ...

Of the many unnerving aspects of the future of the Middle East, a nuclear arms race would top the list. And to feed that unease, Saudi Arabia has been periodically dropping hints that, should Irans nuclear ambitions go unchecked, it might just have to get nuclear weapons itself. This week, the Saudi ambassador to London made yet another explicit threat,...

[caption id="attachment_153940" align="alignright" width="224"] The Iranian and US delegations hold nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Montreux on March 2, 2015.[/caption] Some of those who believe that Irans civilian nuclear enrichment program is inevitably dual use (that it can be used to produce a nuclear weapon) are alarmed at the prospect ...

TEHRAN: Iran's PresidentHassan Rouhaniberated the world's nuclear powers Wednesday, saying atomic weapons had not kept them safe and reiterating that his country was not seeking the bomb. Rouhani, in an unusually fiery speech, avoided explicit mention of ongoing nuclear talks between the West andIranbut accused atomic-armed states of hypocrisy. "They ...

[caption id="attachment_147540" align="alignright" width="127"] FILE - In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner has invited Netanyahu to address Congress about Iran. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)[/caption] JERUSALEM ...

By The ChristianScience Monitor Breathless predictions that the Islamic Republic will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability, or worse acquire an actual nuclear bomb, are not new.For more than quarter of a century Western officials have claimed repeatedly that Iran is close to joining the nuclear club. Such a result is always declared "unacceptable" ...

Republican Senate The action between the White House and a Republican Senate could make Moshe Yaalons feud with the Obama administration look like Tiddly-Winks. The warning by Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid that there is a crisis between Israel and the Americans may well be true. Hes alarmed at the refusalof the top tier of the Obama foreign ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.S. is considering softening present demands that Iran gut its uranium enrichment program in favor of a new proposal that would allow Tehran to keep nearly half of the project intact while placing other constraints on its possible use as a path to nuclear weapons, diplomats told The Associated Press. The initiative, revealed ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Zarif says Iran sees no benefit in nuclear weapons Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic has no interest in developing nuclear weapons. Araghchi: Sides unwilling to extend the deadline Irans senior nuclear negotiator has said there is little ...

(Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday that all the world's nuclear weapons should be destroyed, shortly after North Korea said it had conducted its third nuclear test in defiance of United Nations resolutions. "We think we need to come to a point where no country will have any nuclear weapons," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told ...

By Haaretz Defense sources say Israel has received additional information that reinforces the IAEA's conclusion that Iran is using enriched uranium for medical purposes. Iran has diverted much of its enriched uranium to scientific research, an aspect in the International Atomic Energy Agency's lastest report that Israeli policy makers are giving ...

By Pakistan Observer GenevaIran andIsraelhave clashed at theannualmeeting of the UN atomic agency, furtherthrowinginto doubt a hoped-for 2012conferenceon creating a Middle East free of nuclearweapons. In lively debates at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gathering of its 155 member states, Iran said on Thursday thatIsraelshould accede ...

By Bloomberg "Were convinced that we have more time to focus on these sanctions," says US Secretary of State, adding that negotiations are "by far the best approach" to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The U.S. is not setting deadlines for Iran and still considers negotiations as by far the best approach to prevent Iran from developing ...

The constructive talks between Iran and the six world powers of P5+1 ended on Saturday with a decision to hold another round of talks in Baghdad on May 23. Catherine Ashton, theEuropean Union's foreign policy chief and lead negotiator for abloc of six world powers said the discussion on the Iranian nuclear issue has been constructive and useful....