MNA | Javad Heirannia: Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that It is the IAEA's responsibility to investigate information that it receives. The fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, says that If it finds that information credible, it ...

The Wall Street Journal | Mengqi Sun: Policy analysts say more sanctions might not pressure Iran to come to a negotiated solution Sanctions observers expect the U.S. to impose more sanctions on Iranian officials or companies that trade with Iran as tensions escalate between Tehran and Washington following a U.S. airstrike that killed an Iranian military ...

Press TV - Experts believe new American financial instructions on how to process humanitarian aid for Iran would lead to more people and entities being affected by Washingtons extensive sanctions on the country. Richard Nephew, a former sanctions expert and Iran nuclear negotiator at the US State Department, said that the new US humanitarian mechanism ...

FNA - Iran sanctions architect under former President Barack Obama, Richard Nephew, derided the new embargos against Tehran, underlining that Washington is unable to increase its pressures against the Islamic Republic as the White House has already exhausted all of its options. Practically, I'm struggling to see how this meaningfully adds to the ...

MNA | Javad Heirannia: Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that I can understand why Iran is preparing to halt its implementation of these key parts of the JCPOA and do not deny at all the responsibility that the Trump Administration bears in this matter. The ...

FNA - Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, says the impacts of the Trump administration's move to blacklist Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as a terrorist entity are constrained by the United States' geographical boundaries as the world community seems to be adamant to the move. Nephew,...

MNA | Javad Heirannia: The foreign policy expert Richard Nephew is of the opinion that the repetitive delays in the launch of the EU-promised trade financial mechanism outside the SWIFT to save the Iran nuclear deal known as the SPV has nothing to do with Iran's missile power. The fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia ...

MNA Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that I do think that there will be something called the SPV eventually created that facilitates trade between Europe and Iran, but I do not think it will be the same sort of SPV that was announced in September, covering wide areas ...

MNA Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US negotiating team with Iran, is of the opinion that new US sanctions on Iran will not fulfill US national interests in long term. "The fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, says, I think that the best long-term interest for the United ...

MNA - Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that it is certainly true that US sanctions on Iran can affect the trade of humanitarian goods and the hostile licensing policy from the United States on civil aviation licenses is a complication. The fellow at the Center ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that There are various means for the EU to undermine U.S. sanctions and thereby provide assurance to business, but they require a confrontation with Iran [sic]. The fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that Bolton and Pompeo are both much more hawkish. Richard Nephew addsthey presumably will back aggressive use of USpower -- including possibly military force -- to deal with what the USgovernment believes to be threats ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Richard Nephewsays: The JCPOA agreement cannot stand if the United States reimposes sanctions and removes the main benefit to Iran from having concluded the agreement in the first place. Referring to the recent positions of French, British, and German governments on Iran, Bloomberg has written that the Europeans have intensified ...

MNA Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that I believe that Director General Amano is simply underscoring that he has a mandate to provide some verification and assurances requiring Section T, but does not have clarity as to exactly what he can insist upon and when. Fellow ...

IRNA President Donald Trump's unnecessary demands on Iran have put at risk the United States reputation in the International Atomic Energy Agency, a former White House expert said, as the UN nuclear watchdog remains to confirm Tehran's commitment to the nuclear deal. 'Important story. US pressure or not, UN nuclear watchdog sees no need to check ...

IRNA There is no better option for resolving what the US calls concerns regarding Iran than the nuclear agreement, a former US negotiator said. Pointing to his 15-year experience in the field of negotiation, Richard Nephew, a former official of the US State Department, emphasized that expertise, facts, evidence and data should play important roles ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A former US official who led a campaign to construct the global sanctions wall around Iran says if US is viewed as not abiding by its commitments under the nuclear deal, its ability to use such coercive measures as a tool in the the future will be undermined. Richard Nephew has been called "US architect of Iran sanctions", for his ...

Richard Nephew, who was a top nuclear negotiator during the talks with Iran up until late 2014, says he does not think that Saudi Arabia is currently seeking nuclear weapons, but it definitely has it in mind as an option. Tehran Times recently interviewed Nephew on his recent remarks about Iran and the nuclear competition in the Middle East, particularly ...

A former architect of unilateral sanctions on Iran has predicted that Washingtons coercive measures will eventually be turned against the US. Richard Nephew says the asymmetric advantage which the US has been exploiting as a superpower is fast eroding and that it is time to rethink. The former senior official has produced a paper on The Future ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A former American negotiator with Iran said the US Congress should not get further involved in the talks over a lasting accord on Tehran's nuclear energy program. In an e-mail interview with Tasnim, Richard Nephew, a former US negotiator with Iran who is now at Columbia University, commented on the influence the US Congress ...