TEHRAN  – A member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team arrested recently by the country’s Intelligence forces has been sentenced to five years in jail on espionage charges, Iranian Judiciary’s Spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei confirmed Sunday. “The conviction of (Abdol-Rasool) Dorri Najaf Abadi on charges of spying for foreign intelligence services and leaking information have […]

TEHRAN  – French government officials believe that undermining or scrapping the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers by the US would signal the beginning of the end of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970. Iran is respecting the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), the officials said, Reuters reported on […]

TEHRAN – Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi traveled to Austria on Sunday to attend the 61st General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Heading a delegation, Salehi is going to meet a number of IAEA authorities and nuclear officials from other countries on the sidelines of the […]

NEW YORK  – The meeting of Iran’s nuclear deal Joint Commission on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly is likely, but not fixed yet, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday. The 72nd UN General Assembly will be held Sep 19-25 with the world heads of states, including Iran’s President Hassan […]

TEHRAN  – A senior Iranian military official has accused Washington of “seeking excuses” to tear up the nuclear deal Tehran reached with six world powers by demanding inspections of Iranian military sites. Ali Shamkhani, a military commander and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, made the remarks on state television on September […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry Spokesman while slamming the use of nuclear weapons dismissed as “rash” and “far from reality” any media rumors about cooperation between Iran and North Korea. Bahram Qasemi made the remarks in his weekly press conference on Monday, adding “North Korea’s recent nuclear tests have caused some amount of concern on the […]

TEHRAN – The Board of Governors at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which started its seasonal meeting last week, is set to review Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement on Monday. The meeting will begin with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s speech. In its 8th seasonal report on May 2017, the IAEA recertified Iran’s […]

TEHRAN – Iran has received nearly two snap nuclear inspections a month and almost double the overall number of visits it had just five years ago. International Atomic Energy Agency monitors conducted 402 site visits and 25 snap inspections in the first 12 months since the deal was enacted in early 2016, according to data […]

TEHRAN – South Korea said on Monday it was talking to the United States about deploying aircraft carriers and strategic bombers to the Korean peninsula after signs North Korea might launch more missiles in the wake of its sixth and largest nuclear test. The UN Security Council was set to meet later on Monday to […]

TEHRAN – An American author and the technology editor at Executive Intelligence Review in Washington, DC, described the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers as a “strategic policy commitment”, noting that walking out of the deal would have “many strategic consequences”. “I think that unlike the Paris climate accord, there are people who […]