- 16:11 09/04/2013
Iran plans to build a new 360-MW nuclear power plant in the south of the country, Naser Shariflou, a former manager of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, said on Tuesday, according to the IRNA news agency.
- 20:29 06/04/2013
The latest round of talks between six world powers and Iran on its nuclear program has been “definitely a step forward,” although it has ended with no clear breakthrough, Russia's top negotiator on Iran said on Saturday.
- 19:31 05/04/2013
Iran said it voiced on Friday new proposals concerning its nuclear program to the group of six international negotiators comprising five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany (P5+1).
- 07:44 05/04/2013
A new round of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) opens in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty on Friday as the sides struggle to find a compromise on Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
- 07:23 28/02/2013
The international community expects that Iran will clarify the nature of its nuclear program, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
- 14:51 27/02/2013
Talks between Iran and six world powers on the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program ended in Almaty, Kazakhstan without agreement on Wednesday, but the two sides have pledged to hold further meetings in the coming weeks.
- 22:09 26/02/2013
Participants of the first day of closed talks between Iran and a group of six nations held on Tuesday in the Kazakh city of Almaty were cautious in evaluating the results of the meeting.
- 14:48 26/02/2013
A new round of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany opened in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty on Tuesday, with Tehran saying it will offer new proposals similar to an earlier Russian plan.
- 03:52 26/02/2013
The international community will offer Tehran some economic sanctions relief when Iran Six negotiators meet with Iranian officials on Tuesday in Kazakhstan for the latest round of high-level diplomatic talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear program.
- 19:26 23/02/2013
Iran has found more uranium deposits and selected 16 new sites for nuclear power plants, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday.
- 05:32 14/02/2013
Delegations of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed to continue negotiations at Wednesday’s meeting, Iran’s Press TV reported.
- 23:51 12/02/2013
Tehran expects to start work on a second power unit at the Bushehr nuclear power plant together with Russia, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday.
- 22:08 12/02/2013
Moscow believes that unilateral sanctions against Iran will only make the resolution of the country's nuclear issue more difficult, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 14:16 03/02/2013
A new round of talks between Iran and a group of international mediators on Iran’s controversial nuclear program will be held in Kazakhstan on February 25, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday.
- 15:38 31/01/2013
Russia and other UN Security Council members have again urged Iran to freeze its uranium enrichment program, after Tehran announced plans to install new centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- 20:16 30/01/2013
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has invited Iran to hold a new round of talks on its controversial nuclear program in February, Chief Spokesman for the High Representative Catherine Ashton, Michael Mann, said on Wednesday.
- 18:30 28/01/2013
Iran and Western powers should stop behaving “like little children” and agree on a venue for future nuclear talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 17:25 23/01/2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday warned against the idea of strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, as Israel's incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reelected to his post for a third term with a promise he would do all he could to prevent Iran getting a nuclear bomb.
- 15:30 18/12/2012
Iran will not cave in to external pressure and halt 20-percent uranium enrichment, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said on Tuesday.
- 04:05 14/12/2012
Iran has denied again a request by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to allow its experts to visit a suspected Iranian nuclear site, Iranian media reported.
- 17:10 08/12/2012
Tehran has condemned the United States over a recent subcritical nuclear test as a threat to peace and stability, the Irna news agency reported on Saturday.
- 22:22 30/11/2012
The US Senate voted on Friday to impose broader sanctions on Iran targeting the country’s domestic industries.
- 23:16 28/11/2012
The Bushehr nuclear power plant has been refueled and is ready to resume operations, the IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 19:22 27/11/2012
Tehran dismissed media reports about secret talks with Washington on Tuesday, saying that the alleged talks were an attempt by US politicians to encourage a bigger turnout in November presidential polls.
- 18:32 14/11/2012
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov will hold talks with Iran’s point man on the nuclear issue Saeed Jalili, the IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 07:07 09/11/2012
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said problems related to his country’s nuclear program must be discussed directly with the United States, IRNA news agency reported.
- 04:18 06/11/2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons and said he was ready to strike the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities if needed, Jerusalem Post said.
- 23:16 24/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti)
Tehran on Wednesday dismissed as irresponsible recent remarks by the French foreign minister who said Iran could acquire nuclear weapons next year.
- 18:48 23/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will scuttle any UN Security Council resolution that could be interpreted as allowing military action against Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 06:14 21/10/2012 WASHINGTON, October 21 (RIA Novosti)
Washington has not agreed with Tehran on direct bilateral talks concerning the controversial Iranian nuclear program, but the United States is ready for such negotiations, the White House said.
- 18:28 15/10/2012 BRUSSELS, October 15 (RIA Novosti)
The EU has banned natural gas imports from Iran in a new set of sanctions designed to increase pressure on the Islamic Republic to cooperate in talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear program, EU foreign ministers said in a statement on Monday.
- 21:57 13/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti)
Iran does not rule out handing enrichment of uranium for its nuclear reactor in Tehran over to some other country if it gets firm guarantees of fuel supplies, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
- 09:29 13/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti)
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that based on Islamic principles Iran has no aggressive intents but its armed forces are ready to protect the nation against “the aggressive illusions of the enemies,” Press TV reported.
- 16:23 10/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Wednesday that the use of force against Tehran would spell the end of the negotiating process on Iran’s nuclear program.
- 21:28 01/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's envoy to Moscow Seyyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi on Monday reaffirmed Tehran’s readiness to hold constructive talks with the six major world powers (P5+1), Mehr News Agency reported.
- 18:27 28/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia hopes to see the next round of six-party talks on Iran take place soon, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
- 06:28 28/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the international community to draw a “clear red line” for taking action against Iran by next summer, to prevent the Islamic Republic from completing the second stage of nuclear enrichment required to produce a bomb, the United Nations reported.
- 22:01 26/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti)
China is still opposed to sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.
- 19:04 25/09/2012 WASHINGTON, September 25 (RIA Novosti)
A nuclear-armed Iran would threaten Israel’s existence, the security of the Persian Gulf nations, and global economic stability, President Barack Obama said Tuesday in his speech to the UN General Assembly.
- 08:32 25/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti)
Iran would defend itself if Israel were to attack it, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
- 15:54 23/09/2012 TEHRAN, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. has denied entry visas to Iranian officials, including two ministers, expecting to attend next week’s United Nations General Assembly, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
- 15:18 17/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 17 (RIA Novosti)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold further talks with Iran to allay international concern over its disputed nuclear program, despite the lack of cooperation from Tehran so far, the UN watchdog's chief said on Monday.
- 20:01 16/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti)
Iran will be capable to create nuclear weapons in six to seven months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with the NBC channel on Sunday.
- 15:57 16/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti)
If the United States attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran may retaliate by launching missile strikes against U.S. military bases in the region or by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world's petroleum passes, the top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned at a news conference on Sunday.
- 20:23 11/09/2012 TEL-AVIV, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
The international community has no moral right to restrict Israel in its actions toward Iran until it sets “do not cross" lines for the Iranian nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
- 15:51 10/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti)
The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog urged Iran on Monday to grant IAEA inspectors immediate access to the Parchin facility, the agency reported on its website.
- 20:01 07/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Canada has frozen diplomatic relations with Iran and will expel Iranian diplomats from Canada, Foreign Minister John Baird announced on Friday.
- 19:45 04/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti)
Iran will be on its own with its first nuclear power plant after Russia officially hands Bushehr over at the end of December, a Russian project manager said on Tuesday.
- 07:50 01/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti)
Participants of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran have unanimously adopted the summit’s final resolution, which supported Iran, the Press TV state-owned English-language news channel reported.
- 05:25 01/09/2012 UNITED NATIONS, September 1 (RIA Novosti)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called for a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear problem, his spokesman Farhan Haq told journalists in New York.
- 17:19 31/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's first nuclear power station has begun operating at full capacity, a Russian firm said on Friday.
- 18:31 13/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti)
Relations between the United States and Russia may suffer as a result of new, wide-ranging U.S. sanctions introduced against Iran, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Monday.
- 13:28 09/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
Saudi Arabia has threatened to shoot down any Israeli aircraft over its airspace en route to or from Iran, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Thursday.
- 06:13 08/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are possible but in case they are delivered they will have small impact on Iran and on the contrary will push Tehran into producing weapons of mass destruction, former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov told Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily.
- 05:30 03/08/2012 BRUSSELS, August 3 (RIA Novosti)
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili have postponed setting a date for a fresh round of talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear program until the end of August.
- 13:06 02/08/2012 WASHINGTON, August 2 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Congress nearly unanimously passed on Wedneday a new package of sanctions against Iran punishing insurance and shipping companies and banks which help Iran to export its oil.
- 22:03 01/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti)
Iran will withdraw its $4-billion lawsuit against Russia if it delivers S-300 air-defense systems to the Islamic republic, the Iranian ambassador to Russia said on Wednesday.
- 23:46 29/07/2012 TEL AVIV, July 29 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for “a strong and credible military threat” in order to force Iran to stop its nuclear program.
- 18:51 29/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 29 (RIA Novosti)
Iran will file a complaint against the United States and Europe for imposing unilateral sanctions on the Islamic Republic without the UN Security Council’s approval, Press TV reported on Sunday quoting the Iranian official.
- 15:32 23/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti)
Iran will start enriching uranium to 56-percent level if Israel and Western world keep on pressurizing the Islamic Republic with sanctions, Kabir News reported on Monday citing Iranian religious leader Seyed Reza Taghavi.
- 18:01 19/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 19 (RIA Novosti)
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Iran’s first, is scheduled to run at full capacity in August, the chief of the main contractor said on Thursday.
- 17:37 15/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 15 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt will not stop transporting Iranian oil through the Suez Canal and internal pipelines despite the EU embargo on oil exports, Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday quoting a source.
- 23:22 12/07/2012 WASHINGTON July 12 (RIA Novosti)
The Obama administration on Thursday sought to increase pressure on Iran by imposing additional sanctions against companies and people involved in the country's nuclear and missile programs.
- 17:25 29/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 29 (RIA Novosti)
All individuals allegedly involved in the assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientists have been detained, the country’s Intelligence Ministry said on Friday.
- 16:11 21/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 21 (RIA Novosti)
The third round of talks on the Iranian nuclear problem that took place on June 18-19 in Moscow has not brought any significant results, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.
- 05:01 21/06/2012 UNITED NATIONS, June 21 (RIA Novosti)
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed regret that no agreement on Iran’s controversial nuclear program had been reached during the latest round of talks in Moscow
- 22:46 19/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti)
New talks over Iran’s nuclear energy ambitions between Iran and the Group 5+1 will be held in Istanbul on July 3, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said late on Tuesday.
- 16:36 19/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti)
Talks over Iran’s nuclear energy ambitions have resumed between Iran and the Group 5 +1, in Moscow, according to a source, after earlier reports suggested that they had ended.
- 19:50 18/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti)
The first day of Moscow talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 over Iran’s nuclear ambitions ended constructively, the deputy head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said on Monday.
- 17:07 18/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti)
The current Moscow round of talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 over Iran’s nuclear ambitions is unlikely to end in the signing of a final agreement, an Iranian negotiator said on Monday.
- 17:14 14/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 14 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's intelligence ministry on Thursday announced the capture of a number of prime suspects in the killings of two of the country’s nuclear scientists, and claimed the detainees were linked to Israel, IRNA news agency reported.
- 20:34 13/06/2012 TEHRAN, June 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is opposed to unilateral sanctions against Iran and urges action based on UN resolutions, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
- 14:18 07/06/2012 BEIJING, June 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia supports Iran’s right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy and is in constant contact with Tehran on nuclear issues, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 20:26 06/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti)
Tehran said on Wednesday failure to draft an agenda for the upcoming nuclear talks in Moscow was not conducive to their success, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported.
- 14:48 04/06/2012 MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)
The United Nations nuclear watchdog and Iran have scheduled a meeting for June 8 as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) seeks to secure access to investigate activities at Iran's Parchin military site, Radio Free Europe said on Monday.
- 13:43 04/06/2012 TEL-AVIV, June 4 (RIA Novosti)
The United States is set to tighten sanctions against Iran if the upcoming international negotiations in Moscow fail to make progress on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
- 17:10 03/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will next week meet with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prior to an international round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program in Moscow, a presidential aide said on Sunday.
- 23:07 30/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti)
Enriching uranium to 20 percent is Iran's right, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview with French television network France 24 on Wednesday.
- 13:35 29/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti)
The full capacity launch of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iran’s first, may be rescheduled to June from May, a source in Russia's civilian nuclear power corporation, Rosatom, said on Tuesday.
- 16:02 27/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
Iran intends to build the second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear power plant with a capacity of 1,000 MW, according to a statement by Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization head Fereydoun Abbasi, Mehr news agency reported on Sunday.
- 13:27 25/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti)
A fresh round of talks on Iran's disputed nuclear program will be held in Moscow next month, Russia's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday.
- 15:02 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti)
Iran and the group of international negotiators (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) have started their third round of talks in Baghdad on Thursday afternoon, the Fars news agency reported.
- 13:53 23/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow expects Tehran to cooperate with the “Group of Six” global negotiators on the Iranian nuclear program and urges the U.S. White House against supporting new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
- 11:39 22/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a bill imposing a raft of new economic sanctions against Iran in a renewed bid to force it to halt its controversial nuclear program, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
- 13:04 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti)
Iranian authorities executed on Tuesday a young man convicted of killing an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, IRNA news agency reported.
- 06:13 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti)
Some of Iran’s activities are not consistent with peaceful research, the U.S. State Department said.
- 15:23 14/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 14 (RIA Novosti)
Russia remains opposed to new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and is not considering them at present, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Monday.
- 14:20 14/05/2012 YUZHNO-URALSK, May 14 (RIA Novosti)
Bushehr, Iran’s first nuclear power plant, will start commercial energy production by the end of 2012, the plant's General Designer Valery Limarenko said on Monday.
- 14:47 04/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
A nuclear-armed Iran, Pakistan and North Korea could potentially trigger regional chain reactions that ultimately threaten Russia's security, the former director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, said.
- 19:12 03/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)
Bushehr, Iran’s first nuclear power plant, will start switching to full capacity from May 23, Atomstroyexport, part of Russia's civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom, said on Thursday.
- 11:21 28/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. authorities may allow Iran to enrich uranium in exchange for some concessions. The Obama administration is considering the possibility of allowing Tehran to enrich uranium up to a concentration of five percent if Iran agrees to let international inspectors carry out sustained and comprehensive control over their nuclear program, Los Angeles Times reported.
- 18:12 17/04/2012
Israel has hinted in recent months it may carry out a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The United States has also refused to rule out force.
- 13:39 17/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Tuesday against “third parties” becoming involved in the Syrian conflict.
- 13:30 14/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti)
Six world powers and Iran are meeting in Istanbul on Saturday in a bid to end the deadlock over the country's nuclear program.
- 19:53 10/04/2012 Biweekly column by Sam Barden
On April 15, Iran will meet with the 5+1 group of Nations, comprising the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, in Istanbul to discuss Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Economic sanctions are the current weapon of choice against Iran for the U.S. and European Union, who believe Iran is building a nuclear weapon. The U.S. and EU are exerting an enormous amount of pressure on nations not to trade with Iran.
- 12:43 10/04/2012 ANKARA, April 10 (RIA Novosti)
The Group of Six nations negotiating Iran’s nuclear program will meet for another round of talks in Istanbul on April 14, the Turkish foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 15:29 06/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 6 (RIA Novosti)
A U.S.-backed plan to build a missile defense shield within the Gulf States may signal preparation for a military strike on Iran, Chairman of the State Duma International Affairs Committee Alexei Pushkov said on Friday.
- 23:50 05/04/2012 WASHINGTON, April 5 (RIA Novosti)
Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, the U.S. Department of Defense said on Thursday.
- 00:00 05/04/2012 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
If someone wanted to back out of the April 13-14 meeting between Iran and the P5+1 group of international mediators to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, here is an excuse – Tehran has suddenly asked to move the venue from Istanbul to Baghdad.
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