UN nuclear agency confirms that its chief will visit Iran this weekendOctober 3rd, 2009 IAEA: ElBaradei to visit Iran this weekendVIENNA — The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has confirmed that its director general will visit Iran this weekend. The International Atomic Energy Agency says Mohamed ElBaradei and the Iranians will discuss a broad range of issues, including a covertly built enrichment facility that it recently revealed.
Iran has hidden nuclear site, Obama, other leaders declare, demanding inspectionsSeptember 25th, 2009 Obama, other leaders: Iran has secret nuke sitePITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is on a path to confrontation with world powers unless it agrees to "come clean" and disclose all its nuclear activities. He said he would not rule out military action.
Iran has enough fuel to make a nuclear bomb: NYTSeptember 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, but a risky sprint for a nuclear weapon, according to American intelligence agencies. The new intelligence reports delivered to the White House say that the country has deliberately stopped short of the critical last steps to make a bomb, The New York Times reports.
Venezuela, Iran seek to boost tiesSeptember 5th, 2009 TEHRAN - Visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday agreed on a roadmap over the next 10 years to boost economic and military ties between the two countries. Chavez is heading a business delegation to Iran as part of his two-day visit to the Islamic country.
Iran ready for talks without preconditions: OfficialAugust 18th, 2009 MOSCOW - Iran is ready to hold talks on its nuclear programme with the West without any preconditions, a senior Iranian official said Tuesday. "Iran's main position on talks regarding (the country's) nuclear programme is that discussions should be held without any preliminary conditions," said Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran waiting for Ayatollah Khamenei's order to build first nuclear bombAugust 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Iran is awaiting orders from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first nuclear bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times. According to sources, Iran completed its research program to create weaponised uranium in the summer of 2003, and now claims that once it receives orders from Khamenei, it could feasibly make a bomb within a year of it.
Clinton: Israel should give a chance for US policies on Iran's nuclear ambitions time to workJuly 26th, 2009 Clinton says Israel should be patient on IranWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is implicitly urging Israel to give U.S. policy on Iran's nuclear ambitions a chance to work.
Tehran capable of making nuke bomb within a year, but won't do so: US, IsraelJuly 10th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Although Iran is capable of building a nuclear bomb within a year, but the Islamic republic is unlikely to take such a decision, both Israel and the US believe. According to the Israeli assessment, Iran will decide to make a nuclear bomb only in the "worst case scenario," but both Jerusalem and Washington currently believe that such a scenario is not likely to materialize.
Iran wants option of nuclear weapon, says ElBaradeiJune 17th, 2009 LONDON - Iran is mastering nuclear technology and believes firmly in having the option of a nuclear weapon, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, said in a BBC interview Wednesday. "It is my gut feeling that Iran would like to have the technology to enable it to have nuclear weapons," ElBaradei said.
US intelligence chiefs say Iran can't build nukes yetMarch 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Disputing a claim by an Israeli official that Iran is capable of making a nuclear bomb, two top US intelligence officials have said that Teheran does not yet have the highly enriched uranium it needs to make a nuclear warhead. Meanwhile, a key Security Council committee has reported that Iran had violated the UN sanctions by trying to send weapons-related material to Syria on a cargo ship now docked in Cyprus.
Iran has enough material to make nuclear bomb: US officerMarch 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has enough material to build a nuclear bomb, said US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen Sunday. 'We think they do, quite frankly,' Mullen told CNN's 'State of the Union' presided by John King, when asked if Iran had enough nuclear material to build the nuke.
Iran has not proven nuclear intentions are peaceful: USFebruary 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.
Iran has not proven nuclear intentions are peaceful: USFebruary 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.
Iran has not proven nuclear intentions are peaceful: USFebruary 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.
Iran has not proven nuclear intentions are peaceful: USFebruary 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iran has yet to convince the international community that it has no intention to build nuclear weapons, the US said Thursday after the release by the UN's nuclear watchdog of a new report on Iran's activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said Iran had considerably slowed - but not halted - its uranium-enrichment programme and was still not cooperating fully with the agency.
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