• S ome bad news about Iran's nuclear program: In late May, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a U.N.-affiliated watchdog group, reported 'serious concerns' that Iran was hiding information that may reveal this terrorist-supporting nation has the means to develop nuclear warheads. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Current European Union president Germany also said it hopes that Iran's release of the Britons would improve dialogue with Iran over its nuclear program. (globalsecurity.org)
  • GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator called talks Saturday with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana 'constructive' but didn't say whether Iran would accept a short-term proposal to jump-start negotiations on the nuclear issue. (cnn.com)
  • The fact that the two sides are talking publicly since breaking off relations after Iran's 1979 revolution, is a historic achievement in itself, even if the two sides share little common ground. (go.com)
  • Iran's foreign minister said he was 'optimistic' about looming nuclear talks. (csmonitor.com)
  • Last weekend's meeting on Iran's controversial nuclear program didn't produce any breakthroughs, but the envoys from six world powers and Iran suggested that the talks in Istanbul began a process that could lead to an eventual compromise. (npr.org)
  • The New York Times reported, citing Obama administration officials, that the United States and Iran had agreed in principle to one-on-one negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, though the White House quickly denied the report. (ynetnews.com)
  • Iran's chief negotiator for the nuclear agreement, Ali Bagheri Kani (R), arrives for an Iran talks meeting in Vienna on Monday. (upi.com)
  • That administration cut off Iran's oil sales and threatened any company doing business with Iran would be cut off from business in the United States. (upi.com)
  • Iran's newly elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, has heightened his government's demands in new agreement talks following attacks on Iran's nuclear program. (upi.com)
  • They believe that given Iran's track record of duplicity in international negotiations, talks will be futile and interpreted as a sign of American weakness. (freerepublic.com)
  • Yet now a new hurdle looms: Elections in Iran in June will see the departure of the divisive President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , but the take-no-prisoners jockeying has already begun to dominate Iran's political scene. (minnpost.com)
  • Washington appears perplexed about Iran's foot-dragging on the nuclear talks," says Ali Vaez, the senior Iran analyst for the International Crisis Group in Washington. (minnpost.com)
  • some attribute it to internal [Iranian] divisions and electoral politics, while others believe it stems from Iran's aversion to signal weakness by appearing too eager for talks. (minnpost.com)
  • Davutoğlu had told Iran's chief negotiator that Turkey was s still ready to host nuclear talks. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Iran's Press TV confirmed that Istanbul would host the talks. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Turkey was still ready to host nuclear talks between Iran and Western countries, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had told Iran's chief negotiator in a phone conversation late April 5. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said after the talks that it was "a very complex issue" as it involved his country's "national security. (wsws.org)
  • AIPAC has long supported sanctions against Iran, most recently noting Iran's potential to build missiles that could reach Israel. (jweekly.com)
  • Iran's lead negotiator to the Vienna talks Ali Bagheri Kani (3rd L) and senior representatives of the three European parties to the JCPOA meet in Vienna, Austria, on January 22, 2022. (presstv.ir)
  • On Saturday, Iran's lead negotiator to the Vienna talks Ali Bagheri Kani and Enrique Mora, the European Union's deputy foreign policy chief and head of the JCPOA Joint Commission, held talks while other delegates are also holding separate meetings. (presstv.ir)
  • That same day, Iran's nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami emphasized Iran is operating under the assumption no nuclear deal will be reached, saying, "we haven't made ourselves and our nuclear plans dependent on #ViennaTalks. (jinsa.org)
  • Speaking to journalists in Tehran today, Larijani expressed hope that the Russian proposal to enrich uranium for Iran could help resolve tensions around the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. (rferl.org)
  • Larijani said Iran wants to remove Western 'concern, or in some rather excuses' that Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons. (rferl.org)
  • The United States and five other world powers are trying to end the possibility that Tehran could develop a nuclear weapon, while Iran says its nuclear program is for civilian purposes. (voanews.com)
  • The talks between Iran and Britain, China, France, Russia, Germany and the U.S. center on the amount of uranium Tehran will be allowed to enrich, the number of centrifuges it can operate and how fast economic sanctions against Tehran will be lifted. (voanews.com)
  • In Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called it discriminatory that the nine countries in the world known or believed to have nuclear capability want to exclude Iran from joining the group. (voanews.com)
  • According to McCormack, U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns delivered the following message during the talks: 'The United States is serious in its support for the package Mr. Solana conveyed in Tehran last month, the United States is serious in its support of P5+1 unity, and the United States with its P5+1 partners are serious that Iran must suspend uranium enrichment to have negotiations involving the United States. (cnn.com)
  • Until now, President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted that the United States would talk to Iran only after Tehran halted its nuclear program. (cnn.com)
  • Mottaki said Iran has proposed resuming flights between Tehran and the United States, and there has been a suggestion that U.S. diplomats be posted in Tehran. (cnn.com)
  • The United States broke off diplomatic ties with Iran in April 1980, after Americans were taken hostage the year before at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran following the U.S.-backed shah. (cnn.com)
  • But Mr Bush said US policy towards Tehran would change only if Iran verifiably suspended its uranium enrichment programme. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The election of a new government in Tehran may be an opening for progress on nuclear talks as responsibility for that diplomatic effort has been shifted from the Iranian military to the Iranian foreign ministry. (voanews.com)
  • Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi gestures after casting his vote during presidential elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran June 18, 2021. (cnbc.com)
  • The factionalism that is paralyzing decision making in Iran is not going to go away in June, but with the next president at least he won't initially be as divisive as Ahmadinejad," adds Mr. Shabani, who recently returned from a visit to Tehran. (minnpost.com)
  • Mottaki was speaking at an international conference in Tehran considered to be another effort by Iran to persuade the West of the peaceful nature of its nuclear projects. (worldbulletin.net)
  • The congressman made his first gesture to Iran indirectly during an Islamic conference in Tehran last month. (jweekly.com)
  • Bilateral and multilateral expert-level talks were also held between Iran and the P4+1 group of countries with main focus on the removal of all sanctions the United States imposed on Tehran following its pullout from the JCPOA. (presstv.ir)
  • The Western powers remain concerned that Iran is continuing to amass enriched uranium not for future nuclear power stations, as Tehran says, but as potential fuel for nuclear warheads. (aljazeera.com)
  • But the U.S. elections this month that swept in a Democratic majority to Congress and subsequent talk of a phased pullout have touched off a discussion in Tehran about the outright anarchy that could result. (military-quotes.com)
  • Turns out Obama's message to Iranians last month calling for a new era of U.S.-Iran relations wasn't just lip service: The State Department has announced the Obama administration will 'directly' participate in group talks with Iran aimed at ending its nuclear program. (thedailybeast.com)
  • U.S. President Barack Obama said in a CBS television interview there was still a big gap between Iran and Western powers and said a deal could be out of reach. (yahoo.com)
  • Economic sanctions led by the United States have pushed Iran to the table for a deal on its nuclear program, Obama said. (yahoo.com)
  • After the Istanbul negotiations, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the talks were giving Iran a, quote, "freebie," which caused President Obama to defend diplomacy as a vital part of his administration's multi-pronged approach. (npr.org)
  • Also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Obama administration-era deal lifted economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits to its nuclear program. (cnbc.com)
  • Obama confronts Iran, Syria at U.N. (cnn.com)
  • At this point, the Obama administration has played down talk of any imminent attack on Iran. (wsws.org)
  • President Obama said Tuesday he is confident China will join other nations in pressing for tough new sanctions on Iran for continuing to defy the international community in seeking nuclear weapons. (nbcnews.com)
  • Obama said that the new sanctions would make it easier to isolate Iran, as the global community had done for North Korea as it continued to develop nuclear weapons. (nbcnews.com)
  • Obama said he hoped sanctions would add pressure on North Korea's leaders to return to the six-party talks. (nbcnews.com)
  • But Obama said he believes the U.S. approach would make it more likely for North Korea to alter its behavior rather than allowing the communist nation to operate its nuclear program without consequences - and could have a similar impact in Iran. (nbcnews.com)
  • But on getting countries in the Mideast to agree to peace, on getting the Chinese to move to a market-based currency, on getting Iran and North Korea to play by international rules on nuclear compliance, on getting countries to live up to their fresh pledges on nuclear security, Obama repeatedly said the U.S. can't enforce the world. (nbcnews.com)
  • The meeting will be the first substantial one between Barack Obama's administration and the Iranian government since Obama offered talks without preconditions on coming to office in January. (iranian.com)
  • The nuclear talks have a "very real chance," as President Obama put it, of yielding a deal. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Framing the Iran nuclear programme as one that affects the whole world, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an address yesterday to the annual meeting of the pro-Israeli lobby group AIPAC in Washington: "We all prefer to resolve this issue diplomatically… After all, the only way to truly solve this problem is for the Iranian government to make a decision to forsake nuclear weapons. (basicint.org)
  • Speaking before a meeting today with Netanyahu at the White House, Obama said there had been "too much loose talk of war. (basicint.org)
  • President Obama said "solid majorities support a diplomatic resolution" with Iran. (npr.org)
  • President Obama about to walk out into the Rose Garden at the White House to announce the framework of a nuclear deal with Iran. (npr.org)
  • As the debate over the Iran nuclear deal inevitably heads toward the meat grinder that is Congress, President Obama tried to preemptively frame that debate. (npr.org)
  • If Congress kills this deal, not based on expert analysis and without offering any reasonable alternative, then it's the United States that will be blamed for the failure of diplomacy," Obama said during remarks at the White House unveiling the framework for the Iran deal. (npr.org)
  • The Obama administration believes new Iran sanctions would harm hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough. (foxbusiness.com)
  • American foreign policy analyst Michael Doran says US President Obama is bluffing when he says the potential US use of force against Iran remains on the table. (aijac.org.au)
  • Representatives of the six world powers who attended this week's nuclear talks in Geneva discussed Tehran's sensitive nuclear work -- and back pain. (rferl.org)
  • After an eight-month hiatus of high-level nuclear diplomacy, Iran and world powers are poised to resume talks later this month in Kazakhstan . (csmonitor.com)
  • Several rounds of talks this year between Iran and world powers, dubbed the P5+1, have failed to yield a breakthrough. (ynetnews.com)
  • They took place against the backdrop of ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and six world powers, including the U.S., to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. (cnbc.com)
  • Though it's the seventh round of meetings between the United States, China, Iran, Britain, France and Germany, it's the first time in half a year that world powers will meet. (upi.com)
  • Some world powers, particularly Western nations, suspect that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons. (cnn.com)
  • Istanbul has been confirmed as the host city for nuclear talks between Iran and world powers. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Talks over country's disputed nuclear programme end inconclusively, as world powers agree to reconvene on November 20. (aljazeera.com)
  • Iran and world powers have failed to clinch a deal on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme despite intensive negotiations but will meet again on November 20 for fresh talks, officials say. (aljazeera.com)
  • Russia, the United States and other world powers tried to put their sharp differences over Ukraine to one side yesterday as they kicked off the latest nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna. (thedailystar.net)
  • Iran maintains that its uranium enrichment is for generating electricity. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Meanwhile, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said on April 5 that Washington now hopes that Iran will move forward with complying with UN Security Council resolutions aimed at stopping its uranium enrichment. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Mottaki reiterated that Iran would not suspend its uranium enrichment programmes despite the latest UN resolution and harsher sanctions adding that the country would continue its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog "but as a normal IAEA member state. (worldbulletin.net)
  • Iran rejected an ultimatum to halt uranium enrichment to 20 percent, ship its stockpile of that material out of the country and shut its Fordow enrichment plant. (wsws.org)
  • Next up is Washington Institute for Near East Policy expert Michael Singh, who addresses the consequences of the abandonment by the P5+1 of the UN Security Council requirement that Iran halt all uranium enrichment. (aijac.org.au)
  • Given the complicated domestic politics in Iran, where hard-liners are opposed to some of the diplomatic overtures by Zarif and his boss, Rohani, and the potentially difficult nuclear negotiations ahead, the foreign minister could face even more pain. (rferl.org)
  • The United States and Iran reported they made 'some progress' Monday in their negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program but said that a deal is still a long way off. (voanews.com)
  • The strikes send a clear message that regional issues with Iran will not be ignored at the expense of the Vienna JCPOA negotiations,' Vakil told CNBC on Monday. (cnbc.com)
  • Still, the current negotiations - where the U.S. and Iran are not talking directly, but rather via intermediaries - are expected to survive the recent military strikes. (cnbc.com)
  • Iran has yet to formally confirm participation on Feb. 25-26, as suggested by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton , who leads negotiations on behalf of the P5+1. (minnpost.com)
  • The US and its allies are likely to offer targeted sanctions relief to Iran during the next round of negotiations," says Mr. Vaez. (minnpost.com)
  • TEHERAN (AFP) - Iran will hold two days of nuclear talks with the United States starting Monday, and then conduct two further days of negotiations with Russia, the foreign ministry in Teheran announced. (straitstimes.com)
  • The failure of last Friday's talks is bound up with the virtual collapse of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 grouping-the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany. (wsws.org)
  • In a tweet on Saturday, the senior Russian diplomat highlighted the significance of timing in the ongoing Vienna talks but emphasized that it should not be the "major factor which defines an outcome of the negotiations on the future of the JCPOA. (presstv.ir)
  • Asked about when negotiators might return to Vienna, Price suggested negotiations may be at a stalemate until the end of the Nowruz holiday in Iran , saying , "typically in the past, we've noted that Iranian negotiators tend to take a break during the holiday of Nowruz. (jinsa.org)
  • However he tacitly rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been pressing for military strikes on Iran, and who has been skeptical about another round of negotiations that could be used by Iran to buy time. (basicint.org)
  • One is Israel's condition for negotiations as stipulated by Netanyahu, who insists on a halt to all enrichment activities in Iran prior to the resumption of negotiations with the big powers. (basicint.org)
  • A CNN/ORC poll from earlier this month found 68 percent in favor of direct diplomatic negotiations "in an attempt to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. (npr.org)
  • First up is Israeli academic proliferation expert Dr. Emily Landau, who, in a piece written before the current round of talks, outlines some realities that need to be confronted in the nuclear negotiations. (aijac.org.au)
  • The Geneva peace talks on Syria, also known as Geneva III, were intended peace negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva under the auspices of the UN. (wikipedia.org)
  • He compared such direct talks to diplomatic appeasement of the Nazis before World War II. (christianitytoday.com)
  • April 6, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could be open to direct talks with Iran over its role in Iraq. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Iran denied on Sunday a report in a US newspaper that it had plans for direct talks with the United States over its disputed nuclear program . (ynetnews.com)
  • During a security conference this weekend in Munich , Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday restated Washington's willingness to hold direct talks if Iran were "serious. (minnpost.com)
  • We should support diplomatic talks at the appropriate level and back aggressive efforts to keep nuclear weapons out of Iranian hands. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Although America has not had diplomatic relations with the clerical regime since the United States embassy in Teheran was stormed in 1979, Zalmany Khalilzad has been given permission to talk to his Iranian counterparts about the Iraqi insurgency and border security. (freerepublic.com)
  • White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said on Friday that, while Iran "is continuing to violate its international obligations," there was "time and space" for a diplomatic solution. (wsws.org)
  • Visiting Iran would be only the first step toward reestablishing diplomatic relations, he noted. (jweekly.com)
  • As diplomatic efforts are underway in the Austrian capital Vienna to revive the 2015 agreement, chief negotiators of Iran, the three European parties to the deal (E3) and senior representative of the European Union hold talks about ways to verify the removal of US sanction and guarantee its full commitment to the multilateral deal. (presstv.ir)
  • Ali Larijani (file photo) (epa) 22 February 2006 -- Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has described as 'constructive' the two-day nuclear talks that ended on 21 February in Moscow. (rferl.org)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his country's relations with Iran at a meeting in Moscow on December 7 with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. (rferl.org)
  • Speaking at a press conference on April 5, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Rice has not ruled out bilateral talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki on the sidelines of an international conference on Iraq early next month. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif departed the two days of nuclear talks in Geneva this week in a wheelchair. (rferl.org)
  • Both sides described a second day of talks in Geneva between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as 'serious, useful and constructive. (voanews.com)
  • Iranian diplomats intend to do some finger-pointing of their own, saying the United States has failed to fulfill its obligation as an occupying force under international law, to secure Iraq and gives undue influence to what Iran calls 'Baathist' Sunni political factions. (go.com)
  • A senior Iranian official told Reuters that minimal progress was made in the talks in Oman. (yahoo.com)
  • In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the talks among Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and EU envoy Catherine Ashton had been 'tough, direct and serious. (yahoo.com)
  • Aniseh Tabrizi, senior research fellow at London's Royal United Services Institute, noted that Biden ordered airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia targets in Syria in February and talks still took place. (cnbc.com)
  • President George W Bush has authorised his ambassador in Baghdad to talk to Iranian officials about the security crisis in Iraq in a move which suggests that America is adopting a less confrontational approach towards its old enemy. (freerepublic.com)
  • Each and every Iranian has to be an ambassador of Iran, otherwise their voices will be muddled by politics," she notes. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The Iranian government has expressed its opposition to direct government talks. (jweekly.com)
  • The talks will bring together Iranian representatives with delegates from the six-nation E3+3 group of the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, which has has been seeking a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. (iranian.com)
  • NEW YORK (AP) - 'I have decided,' President Donald Trump declared Wednesday, announcing he'd reached a verdict on the Iran nuclear deal's future even before top U.S. and Iranian officials held their highest-level talks of his presidency. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he was not discouraged despite the failure of the talks. (aljazeera.com)
  • Finally American foreign policy pundit Walter Russell Mead points to the significance of a possibly critically important development in the Iranian nuclear saga - recent Russian threats to abandon cooperation with efforts to halt a nuclear Iran if Moscow is punished for the recent invasion of Crimea. (aijac.org.au)
  • He calls this a threat with teeth, because, as a UN Security Council and P5+1 member, a Russian abandonment of its admittedly limited cooperation with the efforts to stop an Iranian nuclear bomb risks unravelling the whole Western strategy toward Iran. (aijac.org.au)
  • The official IRNA news agency, quoting the ministry, said the discussions with US officials would be held in Geneva and that similar talks with Russia would follow on Wednesday and Thursday in Rome. (straitstimes.com)
  • The meeting went late into the night on Saturday, reported Al Jazeera's James Bays in Geneva, where the talks were being held. (aljazeera.com)
  • On 28 January, the Saudi-backed HNC still refused to come to the Geneva talks, alleging the Assad government had failed to stop air strikes and have supported them and sieges of rebel-held towns, and refused to release detainees before the talks would start such ceasefire being part of the understanding of the ISSG peace plan of 14 November 2015. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 29 January, the Saudi-backed HNC changed their minds and decided to travel to Geneva, not to negotiate with the Syrian government but to talk with UN representative Staffan de Mistura and press their humanitarian case to the public. (wikipedia.org)
  • By ramping up production, Iran could soon exceed the 300-kilogram threshold agreed under the 2015 nuclear deal - though without knowing the details of the country's current stockpile, it's difficult to predict when the threshold will be breached. (cnn.com)
  • The Heartbeat of Iran takes readers on an unprecedented journey into everyday life in Iran, where we meet the diverse people who make up the country's delicate socio-cultural, political, and religious mosaic. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Iran has agreed to talks with the US and other major powers on 1 October in a last-ditch attempt to reach agreement on the country's nuclear programme before new UN sanctions are imposed, diplomats in Brussels and London have said. (iranian.com)
  • For the first time, America is offering active support to European and Russian officials in their efforts to end the deadlock with Iran over its nuclear programme, after previously adopting a hands-off approach - to the alarm of prominent neo-conservatives who back regime change in Iran. (freerepublic.com)
  • Under November's agreement, Iran froze key parts of its nuclear programme in return for minor sanctions relief and a promise of no new sanctions. (thedailystar.net)
  • Earlier this month, Trump said Iran should be "calling me up. (cnn.com)
  • If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran," Trump said in a tweet. (cnn.com)
  • The Trump administration abandoned the pact in 2018, and that resulted in Iran ramping up machinery used to create nuclear fuel. (upi.com)
  • Trump pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May, branding the landmark agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries - the US, the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - a "disaster. (opednews.com)
  • Iran's president, meanwhile, lashed out at 'ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric' in response to Trump's blistering attack at the U.N. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The jabbing between Trump and Iran's Hassan Rouhani set the stage for a contentious meeting of the nuclear accord's parties. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Trump has sent strong signals that he could walk away from the seven-nation agreement, which would potentially lead to new U.S. sanctions on Iran and its international trading partners. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Shortly afterward, Vice President Mike Pence told the U.N. Security Council that Iran 'continues to flout the spirit of the Iran deal, destabilizing the region and brazenly threatening the security of sovereign nations,' a toned-down version of the diatribe delivered by Trump in a General Assembly speech to fellow world leaders Tuesday. (foxbusiness.com)
  • It wasn't clear if Trump had made a final decision to leave or stick with the Iran deal. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Trump must next certify by Oct. 15 if Iran is complying with the deal, and officials have said Trump may use that occasion to declare Iran in violation. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Trump's withering critique in his own speech included an accusation that Iran's government 'masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy,' while ruthlessly repressing its people. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed heavy economic sanctions on Iran, prompting the Islamic republic to roll back on its commitments. (gulfnews.com)
  • As a way of addressing concerns that Iran is intent on developing nuclear weapons, EU officials and the United States, Russia and China have proposed that Iran take a six-week break from manufacturing centrifuges that enrich uranium. (cnn.com)
  • Under the deal, Iran can only enrich uranium at 3.67% - suitable for a power plant and far below the 90% required for weapons grade. (cnn.com)
  • Iran says its only desire is to peacefully produce nuclear energy, and so is demanding that its "right" to enrich uranium be recognized - and that a host of sanctions that have crippled its economy be eased. (minnpost.com)
  • Diplomats from Iran and the 'P5+1' countries - the five U.N. Security Council members, plus Germany - were due to resume talks in Muscat on Tuesday ahead of a last-ditch push in Vienna next week to meet the Nov. 24 deadline. (yahoo.com)
  • Nov. 29 (UPI) -- For the first time in six months, discussions to revive the Iran nuclear deal began on Monday in Vienna. (upi.com)
  • Despite some stumbles, the Iran nuclear talks resuming in Vienna this week may yet yield an accord that could end the prolonged crisis. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The Vienna talks began on a promise by Trump's successor, Joe Biden, to rejoin the deal and repeal the so-called maximum pressure campaign against Iran. (presstv.ir)
  • The eighth round of the Vienna talks began on December 27 with a focus on the removal of all US sanctions. (presstv.ir)
  • Ulyanov said timing depends on participants of the Vienna talks, adding that the negotiators must expedite their work if deem necessary. (presstv.ir)
  • Russia's lead negotiator to the Vienna talks says his country rejects "artificial deadlines" set by Western parties to the talks. (presstv.ir)
  • This could mean Iran takes essentially a two-week holiday from the Vienna talks, potentially through the end of next week. (jinsa.org)
  • The deal will aim to restore a 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that gave Iran relief from economic sanctions while asking that Iran limit its nuclear program. (upi.com)
  • Would you support or oppose an agreement in which the United States and other countries would some of their economic sanctions against Iran, in exchange for Iran restricting its nuclear program in a way that makes it harder for it to produce nuclear weapons ? (npr.org)
  • Russia's weapons sales to Iran are purely for defensive purposes, a government spokesman said Saturday, in response to reports that Russia was selling $1 billion worth of weapons to Iran. (freerepublic.com)
  • At stake during the talks are demands by the so-called P5+1 group (the US, Russia , China , Britain , France , and Germany ) that Iran accept limits on its advanced nuclear program, so that it never has the tools to make a nuclear weapon. (minnpost.com)
  • Iran has since April 2021 been engaged in EU-mediated talks to revive the deal, with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly and the United States indirectly. (gulfnews.com)
  • The latest round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 (US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) ended yesterday, with little sign the gaps between the parties were narrowed significantly though it was reported the ongoing building of the Arak heavy water reactor - which will produce bomb-ready plutonium - was raised as a major issue. (aijac.org.au)
  • Even without the spat over Ukraine, agreeing a lasting deal will be tough for Iran and the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany, known as the P5+1. (thedailystar.net)
  • Russia and Iran deem Mohammad Alloush a terrorist. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mr. Salehi today in Berlin confirmed that he was "optimistic" that bilateral talks with the US were possible, Reuters reported. (minnpost.com)
  • I doubt that the strikes would have any impact on the JCPOA talks,' Ali Vaez, Iran project director at Crisis Group, told CNBC on Monday. (cnbc.com)
  • Adds Vaez: "If [P5+1] demands are not disentangled into individual steps and rewarded with the lifting of sanctions of equivalent value, talks will hit a wall again and the vicious race of sanctions against centrifuges will continue. (minnpost.com)
  • It's hard to imagine what President Bush expects to gain from talks with the Iranians,' said Michael Ledeen, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a leading conservative think-tank. (freerepublic.com)
  • Likewise, while Iran suffers brain drain as many young Iranians leave for Europe and the United States, Kangarlou emphasizes, "There are some who remain and who choose to build their own country despite all of the challenges. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • These Iranians, she believes, are tied to their sense of belonging and identity in Iran. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • A new round of talks was set for next Monday in Switzerland. (voanews.com)
  • GARCIA-NAVARRO: There is another round of talks scheduled for May in Baghdad and Livne says Israel is worried that the world is wasting time. (npr.org)
  • US President George W Bush has ruled out early talks with Iran and Syria on tackling Iraq's unrest, after meeting Tony Blair at the White House. (bbc.co.uk)
  • But they said Iran and Syria would have to be clear they backed a non-sectarian democratically elected government in Iraq and ended support for terrorism. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The ISG urged talks with Iran and Syria on tackling the instability. (bbc.co.uk)
  • So far, despite disagreements over the Syria conflict and other issues, the six powers have shown a united front over Iran, but events in Ukraine in recent weeks have precipitated the worst crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War. (thedailystar.net)
  • The talks, prepared by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), were intended to resolve the Syrian Civil War. (wikipedia.org)
  • After preparations by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) and the UN Security Council, the initial targeted date for the start of the talks was 1 January 2016. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Peabody and Emmy Awards winner has faced dangerous and tense conditions to bring viewers reporting from Ukraine, Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Britain believes that bombs being used to kill British soldiers are made in Iran. (freerepublic.com)
  • The Islamic Republic has also rejected the pessimistic assessment of the talks by the US and the European trio - namely France, Britain, and Germany - as a psychological ploy to win concessions. (presstv.ir)
  • Axios confirmed that the lead U.S. negotiator, Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, recently offered to lift the IRGC's Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation in exchange for a public commitment to de-escalate malign activities in the region, which Iran declined. (jinsa.org)
  • Iran and the remaining participants to the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have been holding talks in the Austrian capital since April last year with the aim of reviving the deal by bringing the US into full compliance. (presstv.ir)
  • Biden, however, has so far failed to undo Trump's own undoing of Barack Obama's Iran policy, which led to the JCPOA in June 2015. (presstv.ir)
  • In response to the US withdrawal, Iran began to reduce its nuclear commitments under the JCPOA in 2019. (presstv.ir)
  • In the book 'Mr. Diplomat' -- which is a series of interviews with Zarif -- he talks about having problems with his eyes, so he seems to be open when it comes to these issues,' Boroujerdi says. (rferl.org)
  • Iran would not bow to the threats, Zarif said. (cnn.com)
  • As they had begun an evening session of the closed-door talks at a luxury hotel, Kerry and Zarif were cautious. (yahoo.com)
  • By Warren Strobel MUSCAT (Reuters) - Iran, the United States and the European Union ended two days of high-level talks on Tehran's nuclear program on Monday with no immediate sign they had bridged gaps ahead of a Nov. 24 deadline for an agreement. (yahoo.com)
  • The US is not allowed to directly attend the talks due to its pullout in 2018 from the deal with Iran. (presstv.ir)
  • Speaking on Friday in reference to the upcoming IAEA report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said there was now "further proof that Iran is galloping toward obtaining nuclear capability and that it continues to ignore the demands of the international community. (wsws.org)
  • Three high-profile rounds of talks last spring failed, amid maximalist conditions first demanded by Iran, and then a maximalist offer put forward by the P5+1, which requires Iran to give up key aspects of its nuclear program before any sanctions relief would be considered. (minnpost.com)
  • Iran, meanwhile, is committed to a different yet equally unhelpful idea: the reversibility of sanctions relief. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Bahadori-Jahromi also said the "removal of sanctions should be meaningful and sustainable" as oil-rich Iran hopes to truly reap the economic benefits of sanctions relief. (gulfnews.com)
  • Now the urgent question is: Should there be direct, high-level talks with Iran about nukes? (christianitytoday.com)
  • Iran says it wants peaceful nuclear energy only, but has refused to curb enrichment capacity and has been hit by damaging U.S., EU and U.N. Security Council sanctions. (yahoo.com)
  • LIVNE: Because Iran is continuing with its enrichment program and it is moving enrichment facilities underground, that is why Israel feels time is running out. (npr.org)
  • Iran refuses to comply with UN security council resolutions demanding it suspend enrichment of uranium until it can prove it is for peaceful purposes. (iranian.com)
  • The West, in turn, implicitly recognized that no agreement is possible unless it allows Iran to retain some enrichment capability. (nationalinterest.org)
  • By contrast, Iran, having invested enormous resources and pride in its enrichment program, is trying to define those needs in maximal terms. (nationalinterest.org)
  • He notes the interim agreement promises Iran a "mutually defined enrichment program with mutually agreed parameters consistent with practical needs" but Singh mounts a strong argument that in fact Iran has no actual "practical need" for any enrichment. (aijac.org.au)
  • On 1 February 2016, the UN announced the formal start of the talks. (wikipedia.org)
  • Iran J Pharm Res 2016;15(Suppl):197-204. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Lifting the FTO designation is reportedly the final hurdle to an agreement, but Iran has every incentive to keep dragging out talks while its nuclear programs advances. (jinsa.org)
  • Their talks came a day after a damning US report called for such a move as part of a change in strategy on Iraq. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has rejected the ISG's assessment that progress in Iraq is linked to resolving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians - although he said he was interested in re-starting peace talks. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Therefore, and in this framework, Iran is hopeful and interested in successful talks in order to help the government and people of Iraq. (go.com)
  • Iran is widely blamed for destabilising Iraq by backing fellow Shia armed factions and allowing weapons and fighters to cross its border. (freerepublic.com)
  • LONDON - Iran has consistently opposed the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq, but new prospects of a stepped-up American withdrawal are prompting growing unease in the Islamic Republic, where many fear the repercussions of a dangerously unstable neighbor. (military-quotes.com)
  • If you're talking about the officials and the foreign policy establishment, I think they're more these days cognizant and aware of the possible dangers and repercussions of civil war and the collapse of what is left of Iraqi governance on Iran. (military-quotes.com)
  • In an NBC interview, Rouhani says Iran would under no circumstances seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. (voanews.com)
  • Iran insists it's solely interested in peaceful nuclear energy. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution and a former State Department policy adviser, says Zarif's attribution of his pain to a newspaper's misquote was a kind of 'political flourish that may play well in Iran but generates rolled eyes elsewhere. (rferl.org)
  • But not everyone here believes talks with Iran are futile. (npr.org)
  • In exchange, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany would not impose further sanctions against Iran during that period. (cnn.com)
  • The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council believe Iran may be working to develop nuclear weapons. (voanews.com)
  • Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko is scheduled to visit Iran for further talks later this week. (rferl.org)
  • There is absolutely no divergence whatsoever in what we believe is necessary for Iran to prove that its nuclear program is going to be peaceful in the future,' he said. (voanews.com)
  • Solana, appearing with Saeed Jalili at a news conference, said he expects to receive an answer from Iran in two weeks. (cnn.com)
  • Ahead of that speech, President Rouhani recently told NBC News that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons and wants 'the swiftest resolution of this issue in the framework of international standards. (voanews.com)
  • Zarif's comments came after it emerged that Iran has quadrupled its rate of production of low-enriched uranium, according to the Tasnim news agency which cited an official at the Natanz nuclear facility Monday. (cnn.com)
  • In a press conference this week, he told members of the international news media that the talks in Israel's view are being used by Iran as a stalling tactic. (npr.org)
  • The news reports said Russian was selling Iran advanced missiles and other systems, but the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mikhail Kamynin, did not comment on specifics, saying in a statement only that they were 'exclusively defensive weapons. (freerepublic.com)
  • Speaking to Channel 2 News on Friday, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman again indicated that the government was prepared to attack Iran, declaring there was no way that "the State of Israel can accept a nuclear Iran. (wsws.org)
  • Similarly, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll last month found more than 7-in-10 said they thought a deal would "not make a real difference in preventing Iran from producing nuclear weapons. (npr.org)
  • Tasnim News Agency, which claims to be a private news agency in Iran but is reported be close to the IRGC, was launched in 2012. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Western countries suspect Iran has secretly attempted to acquire the means to build nuclear weapons. (yahoo.com)
  • Therefore the PYD was excluded from the peace talks. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 2 February, the coalition of opposition groups HNC warned that the offensive military operations conducted by Syrian government forces north of the city of Aleppo could put the intended peace talks at risk. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 3 February, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura suspended the peace talks, until 25 February. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although Kerry publicly played down the differences with Fabius, other diplomats at the talks said the last-minute objections came as a surprise and complicated the chances of agreement. (aljazeera.com)
  • It's not true that the United States and Iran have agreed to one-on-one talks or any meeting after the American elections," Tommy Vietor said in a statement. (ynetnews.com)
  • Could the new strikes derail the talks, or rather send a message that good faith attempts at diplomacy won't preclude military action where the administration deems it necessary? (cnbc.com)
  • The American initiative, a further indication that the secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's more moderate diplomacy has replaced the hardline foreign policy of Mr Bush's first term, follows another recent shift of tactics towards Iran. (freerepublic.com)
  • The group, widely influential in Congress, wants the U.S. to reinstate all economic penalties on Iran suspended during the diplomacy. (foxbusiness.com)
  • LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, BYLINE: While much of the world is relieved that Iran is finally engaged in talks on his suspect nuclear program, Israel is sounding an alarm. (npr.org)
  • It wants Iran to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency access to its suspect sites, and it wants Iran to stop transferring its nuclear facilities to the Fordo installation, which is buried deep underground. (npr.org)
  • The U.S. and its partners suspect Iran may be trying to develop nuclear weapons. (foxbusiness.com)
  • But Iran earlier this month elected a new president, Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner with a vocally anti-Western stance. (cnbc.com)
  • Mottaki made the comments when asked if Iran would still hold talks with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana. (worldbulletin.net)
  • The prevailing perception of Iran is often centered on its regime and violent episodes that occurred following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • While tension has been rising for a year since the US decided to re-impose sanctions on Iran, recent attacks on oil cargoes in the Gulf region and downing of a US drone by the Islamic Republic has magnified the anxiety. (indiatimes.com)
  • 8 March 2022 - It was 1991 and Pariva Hashemi had just started working for the health centre of Semnan province in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • Islamic Republic of Iran reported its last case of wild poliovirus in 1997. (who.int)
  • Islamic Republic of Iran shares 921 kilometres of land border with Afghanistan and 959 kilometres of land border with Pakistan - the only 2 polio-endemic countries. (who.int)
  • While Islamic Republic of Iran reported its last case of wild poliovirus type 1 in 1997, the country has maintained a vigilant surveillance network, particularly in the areas bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, where isolates of vaccine-derived polio virus have been found in the environment. (who.int)
  • ABSTRACT This qualitative study in the Islamic Republic of Iran aimed to explore facilitators and barriers to the use of reproductive health services by unmarried women. (who.int)
  • 1,2 The Islamic Republic of Iran earthquake in 2003, South-East Asia tsunami in 2004, Pakistan earthquake in 2005, Pakistan floods and Haiti earthquake in 2010 all required an immediate health response, surpassing national capacities. (who.int)
  • The latest talks come as the United Nations nuclear agency said last week it remains concerned about the possible existence of "undisclosed nuclear-related activities" in Iran that could include work linked to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile. (voanews.com)
  • Iran hid its nuclear program for years, and since 2003 it has failed to provide total assurance to the IAEA that it is not developing nuclear warheads. (christianitytoday.com)
  • For Sanam Vakil, an Iran expert and deputy head of the Middle East North Africa program at Chatham House, it's the latter. (cnbc.com)
  • In today's interconnected global village, beyond the headlines about its nuclear program, Iran and its people remain a mystery to much of the world-especially to those living in the United States and the West. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • What sanctions do accomplish is hopefully to change the calculus of a country like Iran so that they see that there are more costs and fewer benefits to pursuing a nuclear weapons program," he said. (nbcnews.com)
  • These include Iran's antipathy to Israel, support for terrorism and Syrian President Bashar Assad, ballistic missile testing and its nuclear program. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Reports say Iran has been allegedly continuing to seek to illegally purchase black market components for its nuclear program, but the US says this does not violate the interim agreement. (aijac.org.au)
  • President Biden reiterated travel warnings to U.S. citizens on Monday after the release of five American prisoners from Iran. (yahoo.com)