The first phase of the U.S.-led international effort to address the Iranian nuclear program ended this week, but the second has just begun. On Monday, Iran began to implement an interim accord signed in November with the U.S. and its partners in the P5+1 (the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany). Known as theJoint ...

U.S. Department of the Treasury ha announced Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohenwill travel to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates regarding the implementation of sanctions against Iran. Cohen is traveling to Turkey and the UAE this week to discuss the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) agreed to by the ...

An Iranian lawmaker says the 'US must adjust its behaviour' to help with the implementation of the Geneva deal between Iran and the Sextet of world powers. After [reaching] the Geneva agreement, Iran expects members of the P5+1 group to pave the way for the implementation of [this agreement] through goodwill and the improvement of ties, said spokesman ...

A senior Iranian MP says the US prevented the latest round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 from bearing fruit, adding the US will turn out to be the ultimate loser. The US should know that if the talks do not ultimately achieve a result, the Islamic Republic will continue its logical policies on the development of nuclear technology within ...

(Reuters) - A senior U.S. official expressed concern on Friday about a current lack of progress in negotiations between sixworld powersandIranover Tehran's disputed nuclear program, speaking on the expected last day of a May 13-16 meeting. "Talks have been slow and difficult," the official said, declining to be named. "Significant gaps remain.Iranstill ...

[caption id="attachment_91821" align="alignright" width="180"] A general view of the Iran-P5+1 nuclear talks session at the UN headquarters in Vienna, April 8, 2014[/caption] Advocates of the effort to reach anegotiated settlement with Iranover itsillicit nuclear activitieshave emphasized the benefits an agreement could bring by peacefully and verifiably ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's defense minister says his country cannot depend on the United States to lead an action against Iran's nuclear program and that Israel can only rely on itself. Moshe Yaalonsays Israel believed "the one who should lead the campaign against Iran is the U.S" but instead, Washington began talks with Tehran. He says Iran has ...

(Reuters) -Iranhas pursued a longstanding effort to buy banned components for its nuclear and missile programs in recent months, a U.S. official said, a period when it struck an interim deal with major powers to limit its disputed atomic activity. Vann Van Diepen, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for international security and non-proliferation,...

Tehran, March 16, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that Geneva talks drove the Israeli lobby in the United States to isolation the worst in the past 30 years. Zarif made the remarks in an interview with Iran Persian newspaper on Sunday. ?We should appreciate the meritorious service of the negotiating team.? Criticizing ...

The United Nations envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will hold talks in Iran on Sunday. Brahimi presided in January and February over the Geneva II discussions, which did not advance towards a political resolution. The envoy said earlier this week that he saw little hope for a further set of negotiations, reportedly putting most of the blame on President ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani censured the United States' antagonistic moves in the talks between Iran and the world powers. It seems that the US is now aware that it has nothing to say in the nuclear negotiations and it should accept that their resolutions have no legitimacy, therefore, it has told its elements to create a ...

Tehran, March 9, IRNA US measures throw obstacle on the way of negotiations between Iran and the six nations over Tehran?s nuclear program, said head of Strategic Research Center of Iran?s Expediency Council, Ali-Akbar Velayati on Sunday. Delivering a press statement after his meeting with visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Velayati ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   EUs Ashton says no guarantee of final Iran nuclear accord European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Sunday there is no guarantee that talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear programme will lead to a comprehensive agreement.   Irans president calls for ...

The recent launching by the P5+1 of negotiations of a comprehensive deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program poses serious dilemmas for both the U.S. and Israel given the enormous stakes involved. For the U.S., the formal goal is to beverifiably assured that Irans nuclear program is peaceful. In reality, Americas goal is to prevent Irans nuclear ...

STATE DEPARTMENT President Obama's push to limit Iran's nuclear program includes a promise to Israel and Saudi Arabia that he will not allow Tehran to develop nuclear weapons. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will never be secure if Iran continues to enrich uranium. In their meeting at the White House this week, Obama told ...

The Supreme Leaders top foreign advisor, Ali Akbar Velayati,engaged in some tough talkon Wednesday about the US, amid the nuclear negotiations and the Syrian crisis: America knows that symmetric security in the region is not possible without Iran. No country in the region is as powerful as Iran and the stability of no country is as strong as Iran. Targeting ...

VIENNA (AP) -- The United States says Iran must clear up suspicions it worked on atomic arms if it hopes to get full relief from sanctions choking its economy. Iran and six world powers now are working on a deal that highlights sanctions relief in exchange for agreement by Tehran to scale back nuclear programs that could be turned toward making a ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker blasted the US for adopting a dual-track policy against Iran, and warned that any military adventurism against Tehran would incur a heavy price on aggressors. During the talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), the White House officials announce that they ...

A political analyst has cast doubt on US motives in nuclear negotiations between Iran and six world powers, saying the US ultimately seeks a puppet government in Iran. One monkey wrench after another is thrown against Iran. I think its a destabilization issue; I think the idea is the same as Ive said so many times, that Washington simply does not ...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House tomorrow, President Barack Obama will tell him that his country could face a bleak future -- one of international isolation and demographic disaster -- if he refuses to endorse a U.S.-drafted framework agreement for peace with the Palestinians. Obama will warn Netanyahu that time ...