A new round of nuclear talks between the Islamic Republic and three European states will take place Tuesday, in Geneva, with Deputy FM Majid Takht-Ravanchi heading the Iranian delegation, Iran’s Tasnim News reported Monday.
Iran is prepared to scale back uranium enrichment from 60% to 20% in a bid to prevent further airstrikes and the reimposition of UN sanctions, the Telegraph reported on Sunday citing unnamed Iranian officials.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday rejected calls by Tehran moderates for direct negotiations with the United States, insisting that Washington’s hostility cannot be resolved through talks.
Iran and Russia have stepped up coordination as European powers threaten to trigger the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran, officials said on Friday, days before an end-August deadline to activate the snapback mechanism.
Friday’s talks between Iran and European powers made no progress, Axios and the Wall Street Journal reported, as a deadline looms for the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran under the so-called snapback mechanism.
Iran must remain prepared for a fresh round of conflict as the war with Israel is not over, the Islamic Republic's top security official Ali Larijani said two months after a US-brokered ceasefire put an end to a 12-day war between Iran and Israel.
Iran and three European powers will resume nuclear talks on Tuesday, Iran’s foreign minister said, following a phone call with his counterparts from Britain, France and Germany as well as the European Union’s foreign policy chief.
Ahmad Khatami, Tehran’s interim Friday prayer leader and a representative of the Supreme Leader, criticized the Reform Front’s recent manifesto, saying its proposal for suspending uranium enrichment mirrored US demands.
A senior Iranian diplomat warned Europe that triggering the UN’s “snapback” mechanism to restore sanctions would squander its leverage and harden Tehran’s nuclear stance.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials will travel to Washington next week for consultations with the United States as concerns grow over their inability to account for Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb grade uranium, Bloomberg reported.
Britain, France and Germany cannot reimpose UN sanctions on Iran under Resolution 2231, Russia’s envoy in Vienna said on Wednesday.
Tehran on Wednesday accused Washington of seeking through diplomacy what it failed to achieve with military strikes, suggesting that talks with the United States have not yet reached a “mature stage.”
The G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group on Wednesday called on Iran to avoid escalatory action and to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog.
The extent of damage from recent US strikes on Iran’s Fordow centrifuges remains uncertain, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, with experts questioning President Donald Trump’s assertion that the site was completely obliterated.
An Iranian lawmaker warned that Tehran would resume war with Israel and withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European powers trigger the so-called “snapback” mechanism that would reinstate UN sanctions on Iran.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that both he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be considered “war heroes” for their roles in the attacks on Iran that he said destroyed its nuclear program.
An outlet affiliated with Iran’s Guards warned on Tuesday that recent calls by reformist politicians for sweeping changes in domestic and foreign policy echoed mistakes made by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard got a leaked British Ministry of Defense database from the Taliban, hoping to use it to detain suspects as bargaining chips in nuclear talks while the Taliban seeks recognition as Afghanistan’s rulers, the Telegraph reported.
Iran will continue talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and another round of negotiations is likely in the coming days, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.
Iran’s missiles are capable of striking into the heart of Europe and could eventually target US cities from the sea, an Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday.
A senior aide to the Iranian president said on Sunday that conditions were not currently suitable for negotiations with the United States, while stressing that any such decision would follow a process involving Iran’s leadership and top security bodies.
Washington is not capable of launching another military conflict against Iran and is constrained by the risks of soaring energy prices, a senior cleric in the Office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Friday.