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
One of the world’s leading experts on nuclear weapons programs, the American physicist David Albright, issued a shocking report, stating that Iran’s regime needs roughly a week to produce enough uranium for an atomic bomb. In his January 8 report titled “How quickly could Iran make nuclear weapons today?” Albright argues that “Iran can … Read more
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is intensifying Spain’s efforts to source its energy grid from solar and wind sources, formally ditching nuclear power. Reuters / SUSANA VERA Spain will shutter all of its remaining nuclear power plants by 2035, the government confirmed on Wednesday, as part of its aggressive energy plan for the future. The Council … Read more
