The British newspaper The Sunday Times reported today that according to a former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) official, Iran may have thousands more centrifuges than it has declared to the IAEA. The Times quoted the concerns of Olli Heinonen, who worked for the IAEA for 27 years. During his...

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Reuters reported on Saturday that the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program shows that Iran violated one of the commitments it made in last year’s Joint Plan of Action (JPA) with the P5+1 powers. Reuters cited an analysis of the IAEA report prepared by...

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Tensions deepened on Thursday between the White House and Congress over the Obama administration’s diplomacy toward Iran, after the Wall Street Journal reported that that President Barack Obama had sent a secret letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei discussing a proposed nuclear deal and suggesting that Washington and Tehran...

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An editorial that appeared Monday in the defense industry magazine Defense News admonished the P5+1 not to “let Iran off the nuclear hook.” The editorial noted that the West is “bending to Iranian demands  to allow limited enrichment and shutter, not scrap, its vast nuclear complex and banks of enriching centrifuges.” This...

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Reuters revealed today the existence of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document charging that Iran has failed to address questions about its past nuclear research. Reuters has more: Iran is failing to address suspicions it may have worked on designing an atomic bomb, according to the latest report by a U.N. watchdog,...

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The Wall Street Journal reported today (Google link) that President Barack Obama wrote a secret letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month that “appeared aimed both at buttressing the campaign against Islamic State and nudging Iran’s religious leader closer to a nuclear deal.” Mr. Obama stressed to...

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At a joint press conference Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iran must prove its nuclear program is peaceful. Voice of America (VOA) reported that the two diplomats agreed “that Iran has a right to a peaceful nuclear program but ‘not a track...

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The deadline for the P5+1 nations and Iran to reach a deal to keep Iran from ever having nuclear weapons arrives next month, and negotiators are working overtime to reach a deal that would supposedly stop their nuclear program. Yet critics have suggested that the impending deal would do the exact opposite—preserve Iran’s technology and...

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In an analysis published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Singh, managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, writes that though the United States in recent years has become more accepting of Tehran’s positions, “the changes in U.S.-Iran relations have been decidedly one-sided.” Singh writes that while...

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Ahead of nuclear talks expected to take place next week in Oman, influential figures in Arab countries are expressing concern over the possible agreement that may be reached between Iran and the world powers, emphasizing that Iran seeks to obtain nuclear weapons regardless of the outcome of the negotiations. For them,...

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