Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari is of the opinion that his warships’ missions on the high seas are playing “a vital role” in affecting Tehran’s nuclear talks with the P5+1. “The presence of our Navy (in international waters) is even important for the nuclear talks,” Rear Admiral Sayyari...

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A top official linked to Iran’s atomic agency bragged this week that a critical uranium-related concession made by Tehran under the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) could be reversed in a matter of weeks, part of a broader speech that included boasts about the quality of new Iranian centrifuges –...

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Reuters on Monday conveyed statements from Iranian officials describing efforts by the regime to prepare a document that would comprehensively lay out the development of the country’s weapons program, a statement that the outlet read alongside long-standing and explicit demands from the West that Tehran must account for possible military...

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The Associated Press on Wednesday conveyed remarks from Iran’s defense minister doubling down on a long-standing Iranian red line ruling out any discussions of the country’s ballistic missile program in the context of ongoing nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 global powers and Tehran: Gen. Hossein Dehghan’s remarks rebuffed recent comments by U.S. State...

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As Tehran and P5+1 officials talk up the chances of a nuclear agreement, Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said his country’s missile-development program is not up for negotiations. Iranian defense minister, Hossein Dehghan, said that the country will never accept any intervention from the western side on the issue. The...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday boasted that the international sanctions regime against Iran was unraveling, echoing a theme that he has been consistently emphasizing since the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which provided Tehran with badly-needed financial relief – was signed in November: “With your support, this government has taken the first steps...

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Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Imami Kashani declared in a nationally televised sermon on Friday that Tehran would continue pushing forward with its nuclear program despite the intentions of the country’s “enemies,” prompting the Wall Street Journal – which read the boast against the backdrop of similar remarks recently aired by...

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The New York Times reported this week that Iran and the global P5+1 powers had concluded two days of talks but are still far from a final agreement: The lead negotiators, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Catherine Ashton, the top foreign policy official of the European Union, made the...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday ruled out concessions on what he described as Iran’s “nuclear achievements,” the latest in a line of repeated and explicit statements from top Iranian officials ruling out moves that Western analysts and the Obama administration consider minimal conditions necessary to verifiably put the Islamic...

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Iran “did not inform” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of all the details it was obligated to under the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) that Iran is a signatory to, bragged a former head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization in an interview last month. The interview was translated this week....

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