Iran and various European powers are meeting in Geneva on Monday and Tuesday in last-minute nuclear talks right before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20. The E3 powers – England, France, and Germany – are trying to get new concessions from Iran before Trump enters the arena and throws his own … Read more
China will start a six-year nationwide geoscience survey in early 2025 aiming to find natural resources to support the country’s quest for self-reliance. The research initiative – called SinoProbe II – is being conducted at a cost of US$1 billion, aiming to create a subterranean map of the country, according to a report on the … Read more
The UN atomic watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday again ordering Iran to urgently improve cooperation with the agency and requesting a “comprehensive” report aimed at pressuring Iran into fresh nuclear talks. Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, which proposed the resolution, dismissed as insufficient and insincere a last-minute … Read more
The European Union is considering whether to reopen negotiations on a nuclear deal with Iran for the first time since last year, people familiar with the matter have told The Jerusalem Post. Nevertheless, the sources expressed concern that Tehran might not be ready to make the full spectrum of concessions necessary to reach a … Read more
Iran has rapidly installed extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at its Fordow site and begun setting up others, a UN nuclear watchdog report said in what diplomats described as limited retaliation to a resolution by the watchdog’s board. Reuters reported on Wednesday that diplomats said Iran was responding to last week’s International Atomic Energy Agency board … Read more
Iran is responding to last week’s UN nuclear watchdog board resolution against it by expanding its uranium-enrichment capacity at two underground sites, but the escalation is not as big as many had feared, diplomats said on Wednesday. Iran bristles at such resolutions by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors, and it … Read more
IAEA director-general Rafael Grossi warned the IAEA Board of Governors that Iran may be taking a more aggressive approach to the nuclear weapons issue. Until recent months, Tehran has sought to develop nuclear weapons only clandestinely and mainly regarding uranium enrichment, but at least publicly has said it viewed such weapons as prohibited by … Read more
The European Union announced on Friday that it was placing new sanctions against 227 Iranian individuals and 42 Iranian entities. The EU announced the sanctions had been placed due to Iran’s provision of UAVs to Russia for use in its invasion of Ukraine and “the Iranian drone and missile attacks against Israel on 13 … Read more
IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi on Monday told the IAEA Board of Governors that “the Agency has lost continuity of knowledge in relation to the production and inventory of centrifuges, rotors and bellows, heavy water and uranium ore concentrate.” “It is three years since Iran stopped provisionally applying its Additional Protocol and therefore it is … Read more
Iran’s nuclear chief on Wednesday dismissed a suggestion that the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi would visit Iran next month but instead invited Grossi to a conference in Tehran in May. Grossi said this week Iran was continuing to enrich uranium well beyond the needs for commercial nuclear use … Read more
