Iran must declare all of its past and current nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order for the agency to credibly conclude that the country’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, former IAEA deputy director general Olli Heinonen wrote in a research paper for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on...

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The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, confirmed on Wednesday that Russia had “announced their preparedness to cooperate and improve Iran’s centrifuges to produce stable isotopes.” Under the terms of the nuclear deal, Iran will be allowed to maintain more than 1,000 centrifuges in the fortified...

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The terms of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran is causing so much concern in Saudi Arabia that influential advisors in the kingdom are growing increasingly vocal about their desire to create a nuclear deterrent of their own, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. While Saudi Arabia has long advocated...

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Leading nuclear experts have raised concerns that the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was agreed to last month between the P5+1 nations and Iran, do not account for Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU). David Albright, the executive director of the Institute for Science and International Security,...

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The concessions built into the deal currently taking shape between the P5+1 and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland may be so extensive as to undermine the possibility of long-term monitoring, and fail to stretch Iran’s breakout time to a year, according to former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy director Olli Heinonen....

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Top foreign policy leaders from the House of Representatives set down clear red lines on Tuesday against providing Iran with any additional financial relief – not as an extension of the current interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), let alone as the result of a comprehensive nuclear agreement – in...

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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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Analysts continue to debate the details of the failed deal proposed last weekend between the international community and Iran, discussing both the substantive concerns of skeptics and the political consequences of what was very early on described by critics as over-eagerness by the Obama administration to cut a deal at...

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The number two official at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was forced to step down over disagreements regarding Iran’s nuclear program with his boss, the Japanese Director General (DG) Yukiya Amano. Officially it was announced last month that the contract of the Belgian Herman Nackaerts would not be renewed...

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Last month analysts declared, based on an array of government statements, that Canada was rapidly losing patience with Iran. Earlier this week Ottawa’s stance became even more explicit with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird declaring that if Israel acts unilaterally to degrade Iran’s atomic program, the Islamic republic would have only...

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