All News about Iran Nuclear Program – The Iran nuclear deal and the country’s nuclear energy program have been a focus of media reports in Iran and the world since the onset of nuclear talks between Tehran and the P5+1, which resulted in the JCPOA in 2015, and its implementation in 2016. The “Nuclear” section of IFP News offers an up-to-date coverage of these reports.
The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani says indirect talks with the United States in Vienna would be replaced with other formats only when a good agreement is within reach.
The United States is prepared to meet directly with Iran to advance ongoing negotiations over the nuclear deal, a US State Department spokesperson said Monday.
The Iranian foreign minister says Tehran does not ignore direct negotiations with Washington to reach a good nuclear agreement during the Vienna talks.
The United States is unlikely to strike an agreement with Iran to save the 2015 nuclear deal unless Tehran releases four American citizens Washington claims it is holding hostage, the lead US negotiator says. Iran has categorically rejected any US preconditions for its return to the landmark agreement.
An high-ranking Iranian parliamentarian says the reason why negotiations in Vienna are moving at a snail’s pace is that the US wants to take the least possible action with regards to the lifting of anti-Tehran sanctions.
US Senator Chris Murphy has criticized former President Donald Trump for the current situation over Iran nuclear programme. The top diplomat has called the former administration’s decision to pull Washington out of the agreement as ”one of the dumbest, most dangerous foreign policy decisions of the last fifty years”.
The 26th day of talks between Iran and the P4+1 group of countries over removing sanctions against Tehran began with a meeting between top Iranian negotiator Ali Bagheri and coordinator of the JCPOA’s Joint Commission Enrique Mora.
A source close to the Iranian negotiating team in the Vienna talks has rejected a foreign news outlet’s claim that there is talk of an interim agreement between Iran and the P4+1 group in Vienna.
The nuclear negotiations with Iran in Vienna are moving in the right direction and a final agreement may be within reach, a senior European Union official says.
Russia has discussed a possible interim nuclear agreement with Iran in recent weeks. It would involve limited sanctions relief in return for reimposing some restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to several US officials. Iran has so far rejected the proposal presented by Russia, the sources added.
The spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says Tehran and Moscow held talks on the expansion of strategic relations between the two sides in the field of nuclear technology during the Iranian president’s trip to Moscow.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the United States as well as the European parties to the nuclear deal – France, Germany and the UK – have failed to fulfill their obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have reached an "urgent" point. The top diplomat added it would be necessary to take a different course with Iran if no progress is made.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Tehran wants a guarantee that Washington won’t unilaterally quit the nuclear deal again, but the US administration can’t provide such kind of “hard and fast guarantee”.
Iran’s negotiating team in the Vienna talks has held a meeting with the delegations of the European troika in Vienna as the 8th round of negotiations resumes with the aim of removing sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Showing more optimism since late last year, Western diplomats believe a pathway to a deal with Iran over its nuclear programme is possible in Vienna. The diplomats say they don’t believe the demand for guarantee from Washington is designed by Tehran to simply drag out the negotiations.
Russia's top negotiator to the Vienna talks says Tehran is “absolutely right” to be asking for guarantees from Washington after the US’s unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says Tehran is not seeking to waste time during the Vienna talks aimed at removing sanctions against the country.
White House National Security adviser has lambasted former US president Donald Trump’s administration for pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. Jake Sullivan believes the country is paying the wages of that catastrophic mistake.
