Yesterday, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a translated statement from an Iranian professor criticizing his nation’s nuclear program and its stance towards Israel. Sadegh Zibakalam, a professor of political science at the University of Tehran, made the remarks at an academic conference in May of this year....

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While the world focuses on ISIS and its terror threat, as far as Israel is concerned the Iranian nuclear program is the main concern, according to Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz. “The Iranians continue in their insistence now as they did under Ahmadinejad, to retain most of the centrifuges...

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Reuters reported Monday that UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano was increasing pressure on Iran to enhance transparency around its atomic program, after a September 7th IAEA report concluded that the Iranians were continuing to stonewall efforts to clarify the so-called “possible military dimensions” (PMDs)...

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Wednesday that Russia and Iran have successfully laid the groundwork for what the outlet described as a “strategic partnership aimed at vastly expanding trade and investment,” with observers describing the maneuver as a way for the Iranians to dodge Western sanctions pressure: According to a Western diplomat...

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On Tuesday, Iran announced that it was in talks with Russia “about economic cooperation in energy, which could undercut the sanctions”. South Africa, which had been observing the sanctions regime, also said it was prepared to resume importing Iranian oil in three months time. The economic cooperation being discussed is...

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In an interview with NPR on Saturday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that Iran is a bigger threat to the United States than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). There have come into being a kind of a Shia-belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And...

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The U.N. nuclear watchdog (IAEA) on Friday released its quarterly report (.pdf) on Iran’s obligations to enhance transparency around the country’s nuclear program, concluding – per the description published by Reuters – that Tehran had straightforwardly “failed to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb research by an agreed deadline.” The outlet also tersely...

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On Thursday, as part of the deal to extend the P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran past their original July deadline, Japan unfroze $1 billion in Iranian oil money and transferred it to the Central Bank of Iran. According to Iran’s official IRNA news agency: The first and second installments of...

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The Associated Press reported Wednesday that an investigation by the UN’s nuclear watchdog into Iran’s atomic program had stalled, with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expected to issue a report noting as much and emphasizing that Iranian officials had failed to provide the information that the agency required to...

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Iran’s atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi revealed this week that Iran had tested a new generation of advanced centrifuges that analysts believe would dramatically improve the Islamic republic’s ability to go nuclear at will, a development that Reuters suggested might “annoy Western states” committed to rolling back Tehran’s atomic...

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