The New York Times yesterday cited a consensus of intelligence officials from multiple countries to the effect that “Iran in recent weeks has virtually completed” installing centrifuges at the underground enrichment facility housed in its Fordow military installation. The paper reports that Tehran’s success comes “despite international pressure and heavy...

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Officials in the United States and Iran promptly and explicitly denied a bombshell New York Times report outlining a secret agreement between the two countries to engage in one-on-one negotiations after the American election. U.S. National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor declared the report untrue and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali...

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A diplomatic spat between Sweden and Israel bubbled to the surface overnight in the aftermath of reports outlining how Sweden sought to block European Union sanctions on Iran in order to protect a business deal between Tehran and the Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt took to...

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A new report has dramatically reduced estimates of how far Iran is from nuclear breakout, declaring that the Tehran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to arm a nuclear bomb within two to four months. The report comes from the Institute for Science and International Security, a thinktank led by former...

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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran will “never back down” from its nuclear program, while Mansour Haqiqatpour, deputy head of the parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, threatened that Iran may enrich parts of its uranium stockpile to 60 percent. Haqiqatpour’s threat echoed an argument that Iran has been publicly...

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