Tag: Uranium
‘Israel will act if Iran enriches uranium above 60%’
Israel will have no choice but to act if Iran enriches uranium above 60% purity, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi warned on Monday in an address at a counterterrorism conference at Reichman University in...
US, Iran close to reaching ‘informal, unwritten agreement’
Washington and Tehran are close to reaching an informal agreement on the Tehran regime’s nuclear program, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Three senior Israeli officials, an Iranian official and a U.S. official confirmed to the newspaper...
Time to ‘snapback’ sanctions on Tehran, experts say
Leading Israeli and American experts on Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons capability are calling for immediate sanctions on the clerical regime and opposition to a renewed concessionary atomic accord with the Islamic Republic.
The recent...
IAEA report confirms near-weapons-grade uranium found in Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed in a report that its inspectors found enriched uranium to 83.7 percent at Iran’s underground nuclear site in Fordow.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of a confidential IAEA quarterly...
IAEA inspectors find uranium enriched to 84% purity in Iran
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors last week detected uranium enriched to 84% purity in Iran, just below the 90% level needed for nuclear weapons, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.
The report, citing two senior diplomats, said the U.N.’s...
Iran begins enriching uranium to 60% at Fordow nuclear site
Iran has begun enriching uranium to 60% at its underground Fordow nuclear site, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Tehran had sent a letter to the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency informing the nuclear watchdog of the move,...
‘Iran’s claim to be a nuclear threshold state should be believed’
Iran can produce a nuclear weapon at will, former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi announced on Sunday. Hours later, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, went further, saying that if...
When it comes to Iran, Israel’s defense establishment seeks least worst option
The Israeli defense establishment’s senior officers have a range of views on the question of whether a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran will cause more harm than good. The professional debate...
Lapid: ‘Israel will not stand idly by while Iran tries to attack us’
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Sunday that Israel would not stand idly by while Iran tries to attack it, and called on the international community to restore the “full force” of economic...
IAEA head says Iran won’t disclose nuclear activity at undeclared sites
Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said Iran was not cooperating fully regarding uranium particles found at older, undeclared sites.
“I am not trying to pass an alarmist message that we...