Statements made today by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, which, per Reuters, committed Iran to making continued progress on its plutonium-producing facility at Arak “despite an agreement with Western powers to halt activity,” are set to fuel skepticism about White House assurances that the interim deal worked out in Geneva...

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Details continued to emerge throughout the day regarding the likely terms of an interim agreement between the international community and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program, amid increasing skepticism from U.S. policymakers that the deal being worked out would substantially check the Islamic republic’s ability to sneak across the nuclear...

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Iran has made significant progress in concealing components of its nuclear program, and is “getting better” at the construction and protection of potential undisclosed enrichment facilities, according to statements by senior intelligence officials and analysts published yesterday by the Daily Beast. “There have been successes in finding secret Iranian sites...

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Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi clarified today that Iran is continuing to enrich uranium up to 20%, denying widely conveyed reports that the Islamic republic has ceased adding to its stockpile of 20% purity uranium: “Twenty percent uranium and nuclear plates are being produced inside the country and there...

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A heavy-water plutonium reactor that Iran has committed to bringing online would become “invulnerable to military attack” once Iranian scientists activated it, according to analysis conveyed today by TIME. The explanation is straightforward: Because it is not yet up and running, the Arak heavy-water reactor has remained in the background...

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Iran has insisted that it will not give up its 3.5% low enriched uranium (LEU), and this weekend an Iranian MP this weekend also foreclosed concessions on Iran’s enrichment technology, specifically its underground enrichment military bunker at Fordow. The stance is likely to complicate efforts to reassure the international community...

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Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Thursday that Washington would not offer sanctions relief to Iran in the absence of “concrete steps” to address international concerns over its nuclear program, which roughly half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions have called for dismantling. “We are not contemplating anything that removes...

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Leaked accounts of Iran’s nuclear offer indicate that the Islamic regime may be looking to accept more intrusive inspections in exchange for Western acceptance of ongoing Iranian enrichment activity. Analysis stretching back months, including testimony presented to Congress, has highlighted how such an arrangement – under which Iran would bolster...

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Analysts are piling on to the already expressed skepticism of U.S. lawmakers regarding optimistic claims being aired by Iranian officials. Newly inaugurated Iranian president Hassan Rouhani yesterday suggested that Iran is looking to resolve its dispute with the West within three to six months. Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg had already on Tuesday aired...

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Reports are slowly beginning to leak about the speech that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will give next week at the United Nations. In addition to reviewing how the North Koreans strung along the West while developing nuclear weapons, Netanyahu will make specific arguments about Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Both Iran’s...

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