Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that possible negotiations with the United States will hinge on Washington’s readiness for a deal based on mutual interests without threats or intimidation, not on which regional state mediates.
Iran and five other countries have submitted a draft resolution to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual general conference calling for a ban on any attack or threat of attack against nuclear sites under UN safeguards, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on Monday urged Iran to immediately implement the agreement it signed with the UN watchdog last week to resume inspections at the country’s bombed nuclear sites.
Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami told the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual general conference in Vienna on Monday that Tehran’s atomic program will not be destroyed by military operations, accusing Israel and the United States of illegal strikes on its facilities.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told lawmakers in a three-hour closed-door session that the new cooperation deal with the UN nuclear watchdog cannot be published due to diplomatic norms, the Farhikhtegan daily reported Monday, after some MPs demanded its release.
Iran’s new agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog contains no clause preventing the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran under the snapback mechanism, an ultraconservative lawmaker said Sunday, citing the text of the deal he said he had reviewed.
Proposals to end uranium enrichment and halt the country’s missile program were misguided and unrealistic, said a senior member of the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei amid intensified internal debate over the country's policies.
Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami departed for Vienna to attend the IAEA’s annual general conference, saying Tehran would push for a ban on attacks against atomic facilities, as the Supreme National Security Council outlined strict conditions on future inspections.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Saturday that Britain, France, and Germany risk “losing everything” if they move ahead with restoring UN sanctions on Tehran through the so-called snapback mechanism.
The Iranian parliament on Saturday convened an emergency meeting with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to review the government’s new cooperation agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed in Cairo.
Israeli officials told French authorities that Iran’s nuclear program was not entirely destroyed in June’s US-Israeli airstrikes, Le Monde reported on Friday.
The United States Air Force has ordered a batch of cutting-edge new bunker buster bombs, Defense News reported this week, reaching for the successor technology to huge ordnance which pounded Iranian nuclear sites in June.
US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites forestalled their potential push toward a bomb but a deal must be reached to guarantee Tehran will not go nuclear, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Joel Rubin told Iran International.
Iran’s inventory of highly enriched uranium is buried under rubble following US and Israeli strikes on the country's nuclear facilities in June, Iranian foreign minister said on Thursday.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday cast doubt on a potential opening in the nuclear standoff, appearing to undermine the deal he had signed just a day earlier with IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi in Cairo.
The United States on Wednesday urged Iran to take “immediate and concrete action” to meet its nuclear safeguards obligations, warning the IAEA board may need to act if Tehran fails to cooperate.
UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi is “a Mossad agent” who should be arrested if he visits Tehran, Iranian lawmaker Javad Hosseini-Kia said on Wednesday, as Grossi and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signed a cooperation deal in Cairo.
An Iranian lawmaker said on Wednesday the country should pursue building a nuclear weapon since it already paid a heavy price for its nuclear activities in a 12-day conflict with Israel and the United States in June.
France, Britain and the United Kingdom on Wednesday said they were alarmed by the lack of clarity on Iran's stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium and that Tehran must show not claim if it wanted to avoid more sanctions.
Iran said on Wednesday its new agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog does not currently allow inspectors into nuclear sites and will only move to define any access in later talks, adding the accord’s survival depends on Western powers refraining from restoring UN sanctions.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday that its new deal with Iran covers inspections at all of the country’s declared nuclear sites, including those hit by Israeli and US strikes in June, in what he called a step in the right direction toward restoring safeguards.
China and Russia welcomed Iran’s deal with the UN nuclear watchdog to resume inspections, with Beijing calling it a positive step to ease tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and Moscow urging European powers to halt their move to reimpose UN sanctions.