Sputnik - Iran will soon receive a second batch of 20 percent-enriched uranium which has been kept in Russia under the nuclear deal and now will be used at the Tehran nuclear reactor, Behrouz Kamalvandi, the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization spokesman, said on Saturday. Under the Iran nuclear deal, also known asthe Joint Comprehensive ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi underlined that Tehran will resume large-scale uranium enrichment if the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany) does not abide by its undertakings under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). "The ...

Under the deal, Iran will export its enriched uranium to Russia. MOSCOW (Sputnik) Russian and Iranian experts are preparing for the implementation of the deal to export Iran's enriched uranium to Russia, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second Asia Department Zamir Kabulov said Tuesday. "Such contacts are constantly being held on the expert ...

[caption id="attachment_145461" align="alignright" width="129"] Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani[/caption] Iranian lawmakers are considering a motion that would allow the country to enrich uranium to any level it wishes should the Western states impose further bans against Tehran over its nuclear program. On Thursday, Iranian Parliament ...

By Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iranian officials have made no secret about their desire to reopen nuclear talks with the U.S. and other world powers as economic sanctions dig deeper - with Iran's supreme leader even depicting his envoys as waiting at the negotiating table. But Tehran's proposals remain essentially echoes ...

VIENNA (AP) -- Technicians upgrading Iran's main uranium enrichment facility have tripled their installations of high-tech machines that could be used in a nuclear weapons program to more than 600 in the last three months, diplomats said Wednesday. They say the machines are not yet producing enriched uranium and some may be only partially installed....

By AFP WASHINGTON Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to make an atomic bomb within two to four months and then would need an additional eight to 10 months to build the device, experts said Monday. The authors of a new report on Iran's nuclear program say Tehran has made progress in its uranium enrichment effort but that the United ...

By Washington Post TEHRAN, Iran In a bid to ease international concerns over its nuclear program, Iran has converted more than a third of Tehrans most highly enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research reactor that is difficult to reprocess for weapons production, experts and U.N. monitors say. The work noted in a technical report ...

By Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's defense minister said Iran has slowed the timetable for enriching enough uranium to build nuclear weapons, implying that Israel would have more time to decide whether to strike Iran's enrichment facilities. Ehud Barak's assertion that Iran has "essentially delayed their arrival at the red line by ...

Iran has played down as a 'routine technical issue' the UN atomic watchdog's report that traces of uranium enriched up to 27 percent have been found at Irans Fordo enrichment plant. "This matter is a routine technical discussion that is currently being reviewed by experts," said Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy ...

Iran's Foreign Minister called previous round of talks between Tehran and six major world powers (P5+1), a "beginning for ending the nuclear dispute," expressing hope that Baghdad meeting will be a total end to the dispute. In a joint press conference with Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Sunday in Tehran, Ali Akbar Salehi said the ...

VIENNA (AP) -- Diplomats say Iran is considering a U.S. proposal at nuclear talks that would allow it to keep more of its atomic infrastructure while still reducing its ability to make an atomic bomb. Uranium enrichment can make both reactor fuel and the core of nuclear arms. Tehran says it doesn't want such weapons. It opposes U.S. demands to cut ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister and the countrys chief nuclear negotiator, said Tehran will continue enriching uranium within the framework of international regulations. He raised the issue at a meeting with Vietnams Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Monday. The remarks by ...

As Iran and the six world powers are about to hold a fresh round of nuclear talks, some experts have noted that excessive demands put forth by the US during the talks, including for unlimited access to Iran's military sites, will finally lead the negotiations to failure. According to the latest reports, the United States, in its most recent negotiations ...

TEHRAN A senior Iranian nuclear negotiator has said that the Supreme Leader has outlined the vision for the countrys nuclear program, the Nasminonline said in a report on Tuesday. Abbas Araqchi said the statement by the Leader that Iran definitely needs a uranium enrichment capacity of 190,000 SWUs (separative work units) in order to fuel its nuclear ...

Irans Arak reactor will remain a heavy water facility, says Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi. Tehrans red line in the nuclear talks with the Sextet of world powers is the rights of the Iranian nation, said the Iranian top negotiator on Iranian TV on Saturday. Araqchi said the reactor would continue ...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia(Reuters) - Iran will press ahead with its uranium enrichment program, its nuclear energy chief said on Friday, signaling no change of course despite the victory of a relative moderate in the June 14 presidential election. Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, head of the Islamic Republic's Atomic Energy Organization, said production of nuclear ...

Israeli PM warns against new Iranian President Hasan Rowhani, saying his strategy is to calm the international community while quietlyadvancing the nuclear program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel will not accept Iranian uranium enrichment at any level. "We cannot accept anything less than the total cessation of all ...

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Iran has confirmed it is prepared to halt its enrichment of 20-percent uranium, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, urging Western nations to end their sanctions against Tehran. The interview with Russian FM Lavrov was published on Tuesday on the Russian Foreign Ministrys website:For the first time in many years, there are encouraging signs ...