The head of the Iranian nuclear agency said Monday that Iran is continuing its 60% uranium enrichment after it agreed with the IAEA to extend the inspection agreement until June 24. Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali AkbarSalehi made the remarks during a telephone conversation with theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-...

Fox News reported, Iran should enrich uranium to new levels close to weapons-grade to produce fuel for proposed nuclear-powered oil tankers, a conservative Iranian news website said Monday. Iran currently has no such ships. The commentary by Mashreghnews.ir, which reflects the views of some Iranian hardliners, comes after a parliamentary committee ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by the AEI Critical Threats Project's Iran research team. (E) = Article in English Excerpts of these translations may only be used with the expressed consent of the authors. Politics President Hassan Rouhanitravelled to Khuzestan as his ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iranian FM, Syrian president to meet wednesday Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad plan to hold a meeting in Damascus later this week to consult on recent regional developments and discuss ways of expanding the bilateral ties, Lebanese ...

A top Iranian nuclear official says the country does not need to enrich uranium to the 60-percent purity level, and had better use nuclear reactors to meet its energy demands. If one day we plan to use this energy to fuel ships or submarines, it is better to use nuclear reactors, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar ...

(Reuters) -Iranwill have no choice but to step up its uranium enrichment if a bill now moving through parliament is approved, even though it has no current need for such highly-enriched uranium, its nuclear chief said on Saturday. The bill has received expressions of support from at least 218 of parliament's 290 members and, if passed, could threaten ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday thatIran can play a helpful rolein the resolution of the conflict in Syria. Kerry said it is difficult to foresee how Iran can be a ministerial partner in international talks scheduled for January 22 in Switzerland. However, at a news conference during a visit to Israel, he said: Now could they ...

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Over 200 Iranian lawmakers endorsed a draft bill which requires the government to enrich uranium to the 60 percent grade, a senior MP announced on Saturday, adding that the double-urgency bill will go under voting in the next two weeks. The double-urgency bill, signed by 218 legislators, was presented to the Presiding Board, member ...

The third set of technical talks on the interim nuclear deal between Iran and the 5+1 Powersresume in Geneva on Monday. The talks are seeking to implement provisions of the November 24 deal, including Irans suspension of enrichment of 20% uranium and a start to relief of US-led sanctions on Iran. The last set of discussions were held December 19-...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Majority of Parliament signs 60% enrichment bill In a movement to support nuclear right at the parliament more than 200 parliamentarians have signed the bill of 60% uranium enrichment.   Iran would review EU embassy request: Afkham Iran Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 29 (MNA) Irans deputy FM has said what Parliament passes is binding for the government, and should be executed. Mehr News quoted Abbas Araghchi in IRIB University as saying new round of nuclear talks between Iran and Powers will start tomorrow and last for a day. The next round of talks will focus on mechanisms to implement the deal,...

Nasim Over 200 Iranian lawmakers signed a bill proposing enrichment of uranium up to 60 percent, but why should they seek to open the Pandoras Box after the deal Iran clinched with the West in Geneva over its nuclear dossier? The bill was endorsed overwhelmingly by Iranian MP in the Islamic Assembly (Majlis) and entails some 9 reasons why the proposition ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 29 (MNA) In a movement to support nuclear right at the parliament more than 200 parliamentarians have signed the bill of 60% uranium enrichment. Mehr News reported that more than two third of the parliamentarians agreed to 60% uranium enrichment on Sunday. A parliamentarian told MNA that initially 100 members agreed to the bill, later ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) An Iranian legislator has said Parliament is serious to pass the bill mandating 60% uranium enrichment. Mehr News Parliament correspondent reported that some Parliamentarians disagreed to a part of Geneva deal which postulated that Involve a mutually defined enrichment programme with mutually agreed parameters consistent ...

Amid a possible campaign within Iran against the interim nuclear deal, the former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoun Abbasi,has denounced the agreement. Abbasi, who was appointed by President Ahmadinejad in 2011, said Iran had unnecessarily accepted Western conditions to curb the level of its enrichment upon the request of others:...

Tehran, Dec 25, IRNA Senior lawmaker Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said on Wednesday that Majlis has prepared the blueprint of a plan for 60-percent enrichment to support the Iranian negotiating team in the course of talks with the P5+1. Hosseini, rapporteur of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said according to the plan the government ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iran prepares for 60% enrichment if West snubs Geneva deal Iranian MPs introduced legislation on Wednesday that could bound government to develop uranium enrichment over a level of 60% for peaceful purposes in case of sanctions increase; over one third of MPs have so far signed ...

NasimIranian MPs introduced legislation on Wednesday that could bound government to develop uranium enrichment over a level of 60% for peaceful purposes in case of sanctions increase; over one third of MPs have so far signed the bill. According to Mehdi Mosavinejad a member of Energy Commission of Irans Parliament (Majlis), if the bill is enacted,...

(Reuters) -Iranappears to have moved quickly to prevent a large increase in its most disputed nuclear stockpile, a new U.N. watchdog report indicates, in what may be an attempt not to undermine talks on a nuclear deal with six world powers next week. The Islamic Republic's holding of uranium gas refined to a fissile concentration of 20 percent is ...