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IAEA director general Rafael Grossi at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria on Sept. 14, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Dean Calma/ IAEA.

Report: European powers scrap US-backed plan for IAEA rebuke of Iran

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Britain, France and Germany have withdrawn their support for a U.S.-backed plan for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board to criticize Iran for curtailing its cooperation with the agency, Reuters reported on Thursday. The three countries were...
French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting at the G20 summit on July 8, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons via Russian Federation.

France: Iran must make ‘clear and immediate’ gestures to resume nuclear talks

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French President Emmanuel Macron told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday that Tehran must take immediate action if it wishes to resume talks regarding the 2015 nuclear deal, according to an official statement. “Having reminded...
A meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Germany urges Iran not to block IAEA inspectors from nuclear sites

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A German diplomat said on Tuesday that if Iran follows through on its threat to block International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors’ access to its nuclear sites, the move would be “completely unacceptable.” “We urge Iran to refrain...
Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Avi Dichter, Aug. 13, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Former Shin Bet chief calls for Israel to ‘initiate military operations against Iran’

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In light of Iran’s fast-moving efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, Likud Knesset member and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter, a former director of the Shin Bet, has called “to...
Uranium-enrichment centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. Credit: Tehran Times.

Iran spins up advanced centrifuges at Natanz enrichment facility

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Iran is now operating two cascades of advanced centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility, with two more to come at its Fordo site, Tehran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on...
Iran’s Fordow fuel-enrichment plant. Source: Screenshot.

Iran to boost uranium enrichment to 20 percent ‘as soon as possible’

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Iran announced on Saturday that it intends to enrich uranium up to 20 percent at its underground nuclear facility at Fordow, in accordance with a law passed in November by the Iranian parliament. “We are like soldiers,...
Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Credit: Tasnim News Agency via Wikiedmedia Commons.

Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the ‘mysterious’ nuclear scientist killed outside of Tehran?

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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the senior Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated by a hit squad outside of Tehran on Friday, was being “reserved” by the Iranian regime for the day that Iran’s nuclear program would enter a...
U.S. President Donald Trump speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the normalization deal with Sudan, Oct. 23, 2020. Source: Screenshot.

Report: Trump considered options to attack Iranian nuclear facility

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U.S. President Donald Trump had of late been seeking options for attacking the Natanz nuclear site in Iran after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported an increase in the country’s stockpile of nuclear...
Anti-aircraft guns at Iran's Natanz uranium-enrichment facility. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Contrary to nuclear deal, Iran moves first set of advanced centrifuges underground

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Iran completed the transfer of a cascade of advanced centrifuges from a plant above ground to an underground site, said a report released on Wednesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “They finished installing...
International Atomic Energy Agency director Rafael Grossi in Vienna, Austria, Oct. 2, 2019. Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA via Wikimedia Commons.

IAEA: Iran lacks sufficient uranium for nuclear bomb

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Rafael Grossi told the Austrian daily Die Presse on Saturday that Iran still lacks enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear bomb. This, said Grossi, is in spite of the fact...