Reuters on Monday leaked a confidential new report from a U.N. Panel of Experts documenting a range of Iranian efforts aimed at circumventing international restrictions on its acquisition of illicit material, with the wire highlighting parts of the report in which experts worried that the Islamic Republic has “learned how to outsmart security...

Officials from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog disclosed on Friday that they had demanded more information from Iranian officials regarding tests on detonators – specifically, on Exploding Bridge Wire (EBW) detonators – suspected of having been conducted with the aim of creating nuclear warheads, the latest...

Despite the ongoing P5+1 negotiations between the West and Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed expectations of any compromise on his country’s ballistic missile program as “stupid” and “idiotic.” UPI reports on the statements made to Iran’s IRNA news agency. So this is a stupid, idiotic expectation …...

Iran will continue to develop its nuclear program and refuses to “retreat even an iota,” the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, said May 11. “All westerners, easterners and the (Group) 5+1 (six world powers engaged in nuclear talks with Iran) should know that we will not retreat a single step in...

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday conveyed commitments from Iran’s oil minister vowing to boost the country’s crude exports despite what the outlet described as “a cap agreed upon with the international community.” The interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which Iran and the P5+1 global powers had agreed...

Several outlets on Thursday reported on Congressional efforts to reassert a measure of control over the trajectory of nuclear negotiations with Iran, with members of the House of Representatives making a variety of moves over the last few days to monitor the status of ongoing talks and to establish acceptable...