Tehran Times - Ernest J. Moniz, a former U.S. energy secretary, has said that U.S. President Donald Trumps administrations approach toward Iran is a strategic mistake. Moniz, who was energy secretary from May 2013 to January 2017 under former President Barack Obama, said at the Ecosperity Conference in Singapore on Thursday that Washingtons hardening ...

IRNA - Former US energy secretary Ernest Moniz said on Sunday that the United States' relationship with key allies could be undermined should the country's President Donald Trump decides to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement. Moniz, who served under former President Barack Obama, said opting out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) ...

PBS | Judy Woodruff: President Trump has a major deadline for the Iran nuclear agreement looming just 10 days away. What could happen if the president decides to withdraw? Judy Woodruff discusses potential consequences with former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a key member of the American negotiating team that struck the deal, plus a response ...

Washington Examiner - The Trump administration's pullbacks on the Iran nuclear and Paris climate deals will make it harder for other countries to take the U.S. seriously on a range of topics, former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday in Washington. Trump's announcements have "challenged the cohesion of the U.S. and its allies," he said....

MNA Obama's secretary of energy says possible Trump withdrawing from Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would be a very bad decision. In an interview with Bloomberg, Monizwarned about possible Trump withdrawing from JCPOA and said this would lead to the US isolation. "have things turned out as you hoped?", answering this questoin at ...

LobeLog | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: On the two-year anniversary of the agreement, U.S. supporters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, including many former Obama administration officials, are admirably working to defend the deal through media appearances and coordinated statements. Their message that diplomacy works is an important one at a time ...

Tasnim US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers is working, saying that Iran has removed excess centrifuges from the countrys Fordow nuclear site in compliance with the terms of the agreement. On the one year anniversary of implementing the Iran nuclear deal, Iran successfully met the ...

Press TV- Irans nuclear chief says the country reserves the right to retaliate as it sees fit to the US Congress move to extend Washingtons sanctions law against the Islamic Republic. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), made the remarks in a meeting with US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in Vienna on Sunday....

According to a report by Columbia Spectator, as covered by Mehr, at the Energy Leaders Forum at Columbia, United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz discussed climate change, clean energy, the US responsibilities in the field of energy security. Moniz also discussed the details of the Iran Nuclear Deal, another major act established during his ...

The US media have reported that the administration of President Barack Obama is moving to finalize a deal with Iran worth $8.6 million to buy heavy water from Iran. "We are still in the process of executing that first transaction," Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday at a policy forum hosted by Politico in Washington. "We would ...

Ben Rhodes, the White House aide who led the public push for the Iran nuclear agreement, is defending his handling of the campaign after he was quoted in a New York Times Magazine profileclaiming he created an echo chamber to sell the deal. Rhodes was forced to do damage control late Sunday night after he ridiculed members of the Washington ...

The U.S. will purchase 32 tons of heavy water from Iran, in a deal valued at $8.6 million, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing senior American officials. The deal will be signed by U.S. and Iranian officials in Vienna Friday. The idea is: Okay, we tested it, its perfectly good heavy water. It meets spec. Well buy a little of this, U....

Donald Trump would be ill-advised to tear apart the Iran nuclear deal as he has promised if he wins the American presidential election, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said. "It's technically possible, but I just don't see that any calculation leads you to that as being a sensible approach," Moniz said in an interview with Bloomberg Television....

Tehran, Jan 17, IRNA US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said that after years of negotiation and months of preparation, we've reached a milestone. 'Today, we are officially implementing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a historic agreement to ensure that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful in nature,' Moniz added in an article published ...

Tehran, Dec 3, IRNA US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz underlined that there are no concerns about Irans activities in relation to nuclear weapons or activities in the fuel cycle within the framework of nuclear agreement with the world powers. We are committed to remove the nuclear sanctions and I should reiterated that nuclear sanctions and not ...

Weeks after forging President Barack Obamas Iran deal, Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz are eager to move on to a daunting new challenge: persuading the Senate to reconsider the nuclear test ban treaty that it rejected in 1999. Reviving the treaty the first to fail in the Senate since the Treaty of Versailles after ...

Republican senators repeatedly pushed the secretary of Energy Tuesday to support lifting the ban on oil exports and explain why President Obama does not agree. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told the lawmakers at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing that oil exports are not within his purview, but nonetheless defended Obamas opposition ...

Obama administration is turning focus to implementing accord, official says It remains unclear how long it will take to implement the nuclear agreement between Iran and six major powers and lift sanctions on Tehran, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Monday, with Iran still having a big job ahead to meet its commitments. In a news conference ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The U.S. Energy Department has extensive technical expertise that will help verify whether Iran is complying with its commitment to limit its nuclear program under an international agreement, the U.S. energy secretary said Monday in Colorado. The deal negotiated by the U.S. and other world powers relied heavily on the Energy ...

TEHRANLast February, nuclear talks between Iran and world powers were foundering. The two sides had found common ground on the deals broad outlines, but the devil lay in the technical details. The negotiators were struggling to agree on limits to Irans R&D on the centrifuges used for enriching uranium. Stymied, Iranian officials asked their ...