Latest News on Iran

World powers to discuss Iran action in Brussels - Summary
Brussels - Top diplomats from the so-called 5+1 group of world powers were to meet in Brussels on Friday to discuss how to respond to Iran's refusal to reach a nuclear deal, diplomats said Thursday. Officials from the UN Security Council's five per...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ World ]

Clinton, Lavrov agree on diplomatic route with Iran - Summary
Moscow- US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov agreed in talks in Moscow Tuesday to pursue a diplomatic route in regards to Iran's nuclear programme. Stating in a press conference that it was not yet ti...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

IAEA inspectors set to return after probing Iran nuclear site
Vienna - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors were set to return from Iran to Vienna on Thursday, after visiting a new nuclear facility that was disclosed only last month, a diplomat close to the agency said. The quartet of experts sp...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Iran arrests three suspects linked to suicide bombing - Summary
Tehran - Iran has arrested three suspects linked to the weekend suicide bombing in the south-eastern province of Sistan- Beluchistan, the news agency Fars reported Tuesday. The provincial prosecutor, Mohammad Marzieh, told Fars about the arrests of t...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

EXTRA: Iran talks 'slower than expected', ElBaradei says
Vienna - Multilateral talks on processing Iran's uranium abroad were going slower than expected and would continue Wednesday in Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday. Tuesday's talks involving Iran, ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

US demands immediate release of Iranian-American scholar
Washington - The United States Tuesday called for the immediate release of an Iranian-American citizen who was sentenced to a 12-year prison term in Iran, declaring the charges against him are groundless. Given the groundless nature of charges agai...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

EXTRA: Iran nuclear talks to continue Wednesday
Vienna - Iran's talks with Russia, France and the United States on enriching nuclear fuel abroad are set to continue for another day in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced Tuesday. Formal negotiations were held up until th...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Iran arrests three suspects linked to suicide bombing - Summary
Tehran - Iran has arrested three suspects linked to the weekend suicide bombing in the south-eastern province of Sistan- Beluchistan, the news agency Fars reported Tuesday. The provincial prosecutor, Mohammad Marzieh, told Fars about the arrest of th...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Iran to break IAEA deadline for nuclear fuel deal - Summary
Vienna - Iran on Friday said it would reply only next week to a plan for processing Iran's nuclear fuel abroad, breaking a deadline and throwing into doubt the deal designed to defuse the standoff over the country's nuclear programme. Iran informed ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Nuclear talks held up by Iran's rejection of France - 2nd Update
Vienna - Multilateral talks on processing Iran's uranium abroad were held up Tuesday as Tehran refused to accept France as a direct partner in a deal. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in Tehran his country does not want France at the ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Iranian lawmakers sue opposition leader Moussavi
Tehran - Over one-third of the Iranian parliament's lawmakers have sued Iran's opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi for harming the reputation of the Islamic establishment, official news agency IRNA reported. Tehran MP Hamid Rassaei told IRNA that ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Iran arrests three suspects linked to suicide bombing
Tehran - Iran has arrested three suspects linked to the weekend suicide bombing in the south-eastern province of Sistan- Beluchistan, the news agency Fars reported Tuesday. The provincial prosecutor, Mohammad Marzieh, told Fars about the arrest of th...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

World powers to discuss Iran action in Brussels
Brussels - Top diplomats from the so-called 5+1 group of world powers were to meet in Brussels on Friday to discuss how to respond to Iran's refusal to reach a nuclear deal, diplomats said Thursday. Officials from the UN Security Council's five per...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ World ]

US calls on Iran to release American hikers
Washington - The United States called on Iran on Friday to immediately release three Americans who were arrested in July after they wandered into Iran while hiking in Iraq. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal should be released under an interna...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Netanyahu: Four-country draft deal with Iran 'positive' - Summary
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Friday for US President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. Reacting for the first time to the joint deal drafted by the Vienna...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

US, France want Iran to clarify stance on uranium deal - Summary
Paris/Islamabad/Tehran - The United States and France said Friday they wanted clarity about Iran's stance on a deal to reduce the Islamic Republic's stockpile of enriched uranium. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told broadcaster CNN that...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Report: Iran has not yet replied to nuclear watchdog on fuel deal
Tehran - Iran has not yet replied to the proposed international uranium exchange deal drafted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the country's official IRNA news agency reported Friday. IRNA quoted an unnamed official source as saying ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

ANALYSIS:Experts gloomy about Iranian uranium deal
Vienna - There is little hope that Iran will agree to an multinational deal to reduce its uranium stockpile, experts said Friday, as the plan has got caught up in Iran's fractious internal politics. While the United States, Russia and France have sai...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

France wants 'official' response from Iran on nuclear proposal
Paris - The French government wants an immediate official response from Iran on the proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to ship its uranium abroad for enrichment, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Bernard Valer...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

EXTRA: Iran to reply next week on nuclear fuel deal
Tehran - Iran on Friday said that it would reply next week to the deal for processing Iran's nuclear fuel abroad. The news network Press TV quoted Ali Asghar Soltanieh,Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as saying that Iran...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Draft Iran deal has Israel worried
Tel Aviv - As the world awaited Iran's formal reply Friday to a proposal under which it would send most of its low-enriched uranium abroad for processing, voices in Israel against the compromise were growing. The latest was Israeli opposition leader ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

3RDLEAD: Nuclear deal awaits Iranian OK after other parties approve
Vienna - The United States, France and Russia approved a deal on Friday to process Iran's nuclear fuel abroad, which only left Iran to sign off on the confidence-building step designed to defuse the standoff over the country's nuclear programme. But ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Iran demands Pakistan hand over terrorist leader
Islamabad - Iran formally asked Pakistan on Friday to hand over the leader of a terrorist organization allegedly involved in a series of deadly attacks, including last weekend's suicide blast that killed at least 42 Iranians. Iran says that Abdolmali...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

ANALYSIS: Turkish-Iranian relations grow, but so do question marks
Istanbul - The visit Tuesday of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Tehran is yet another sign of the rapidly improving relations between neighbours and regional powers Turkey and Iran. Over the last several years, the two countries have d...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Iran talks delayed as EU's Solana awaits Iran response - Summary
Geneva/Luxembourg - Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, said Tuesday he expected Iran to reply this week to a proposed international nuclear fuel deal and indicated the next round of the Islamic state's talks with world powers would be delaye...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]



 
 

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