Tag: Iran Nuclear Deal
Biden officials ‘recalibrating’ ties with Saudis, opening ‘path to diplomacy’ for Iran
Officials in the Biden administration announced a shift in U.S. Middle East foreign policy on Tuesday towards a more critical stance on Saudi Arabia while opening the door for direct diplomacy with Iran.
In a...
Some Western leaders are ‘divorced from reality’ with regard to Palestinians, Iran
Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week for planning a bomb attack in Paris. His sentencing comes at a time when Europeans and the new U.S. administration are...
GOP to Biden: Don’t revert to maximum ‘concession’ campaign vis à vis Tehran
Dozens of Republican lawmakers wrote to U.S. President Joe Biden urging him not to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal.
In a letter signed by 51 Republican lawmakers and spearheaded by Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), they...
Iran spins up advanced centrifuges at Natanz enrichment facility
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...
Blinken says Iran’s breakout time ‘matter of weeks,’ Israel’s energy minister disagrees
Contrary to U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s assessment that Iran could produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon in “a matter of weeks,” Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday that...
Will the US rejoining the Iran nuclear deal be harmful or beneficial?
One of presidential candidate Joe Biden’s major election promises was a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), a multilaterally negotiated agreement regarding which...
Biden’s national security advisor suggests expediated timeline to rejoin Iran nuclear deal
Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, suggested an expedited timeline for rejoining the Iranian nuclear deal, which the Trump administration exited in May 2018. The comments come as the Biden administration announced...
Iran says nuclear deal non-negotiable, rejects new participants
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that its 2015 nuclear agreement with six world powers was non-negotiable and rejected any changes to the participants in the accord. The announcement came in response to French...
IDF’s Kochavi positions Israel atop regional anti-Iranian bloc
When assessing the comments made earlier this week by Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, who warned against the return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, it is useful...
German foreign minister blasts ‘Tehran’s reckless behavior’
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, “Tehran’s reckless behavior in the past weeks served as a reminder why we must stop the country from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. The best tool for doing...