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  • UN General Assembly to address AI’s potential risks, rewards

    The resolution focuses more on the technology's positive potential, and calls for special care "to bridge the artificial intelligence and other digital divides between and within countries." The draft resolution, which is the first on the issue, was brought forth by the United States and will be submitted for approval...
  • Western countries shelve plans to censure Iran at UN nuclear meet

    Western powers will not censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at its Board of Governors meeting for fear of aggravating geopolitical tensions, diplomats said. Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in confidential quarterly reports that Tehran's cooperation with the agency remained poor...
  • UN nuclear watchdog ‘regrets’ lack of Iranian cooperation

    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi "requests Iran to work with the agency in earnest and in a sustained way towards the fulfilment of the commitments," the agency said in a confidential report seen by AFP. Tehran in March vowed to reactivate surveillance devices which were disconnected...
  • Iran foreign minister’s Tokyo visit: Japan to raise Russia arms supply

    Tokyo, Japan - Iran's foreign minister visited Japan on Monday for the first time since 2019, in a rare trip to a G7 member country by the Islamic republic's top diplomat. The purpose of the visit by Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to the current chair of the G7 was not announced, but reports...
  • FANR highlights cybersecurity framework of Barakah nuclear plant in meeting

    VIENNA, AUSTRIA - The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) is taking part in an international conference organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) here. In the five-day event, which will conclude on Friday, over 500 participants from 94 countries and seven international organizations are gathering to discuss effective...
  • Iran’s supreme leader urges cooperation with IAEA

    Iran's supreme leader urged continued cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, while warning against succumbing to "bullying" based on "unfounded claims". "Cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency within the framework of safeguards regulations should be maintained," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during a meeting with Iranian nuclear scientists, experts and...
  • Iran ‘resolves’ one of UN nuclear watchdog’s concerns

    Iranian media reports came just days before the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to meet to review progress in addressing the watchdog's remaining concerns. The IAEA had reported the discovery of traces of radioactive material at three sites not declared by Iran as having...
  • Iran seeks end to repeated delays for restoring nuclear deal

    In March, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi visited Tehran after his agency's inspectors in the country found uranium particles enriched to just under weapons-grade level.
  • UN nuclear chief to meet Raisi during crucial Iran talks

    Grossi was greeted Friday at Mehrabad International Airport by Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and later met with its head Mohammad Eslami. They were to hold a joint press conference Saturday morning. During the visit, the IAEA director general will try to secure "more access...
  • UN nuclear chief heads to Iran after near weapons-grade uranium find

    UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi is expected in Tehran for discussions with officials after International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors in Iran found uranium particles enriched to just under weapons-grade level. The visit by the head of IAEA comes with the Vienna-based organization seeking to get Iran to increase cooperation...
  • Iran has uranium particles enriched to nearly bomb grade: IAEA

    The IAEA report said that during an inspection "on 22 January 2023, the agency took environmental samples... at Fordow (sic) Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), the analytical results of which showed the presence of high enriched uranium particles containing up to 83.7 percent U-235". "These events clearly indicate the capability of...
  • Atomic energy watchdog’s group in Iran to sort out ‘ambiguities’

    Tehran, Iran - Iran said Wednesday that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were in the country to clear up "ambiguities" about its uranium enrichment activities. The visit comes after a report by Bloomberg News last week, strongly denied by Tehran, that its nuclear scientists have enriched uranium to 84 percent purity,...
  • UN nuclear chief denounces strikes on Ukraine power plant

    There were more than a dozen blasts overnight Saturday to Sunday, some of which a team of experts from the agency on site had themselves seen, the IAEA said in a statement.
  • IAEA asks Russia, Ukraine to secure nuclear plant

    The head of the UN atomic energy watchdog - IAEA- said he was ready to continue talks in Ukraine and Russia this week to set up a security zone around a key nuclear power plant. Fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant -- Europe's largest -- has raised fears of...
  • Iran President seeks US guarantees to renew nuclear deal

    "We cannot trust the Americans because of the behavior that we have already seen from them. That is why if there is no guarantee, there is no trust," he told CBS News. Former president Barack Obama negotiated the agreement under which Iran drastically scaled back nuclear work in return for...
  • Iran says has ‘fully’ cooperated with UN nuclear watchdog

    The comment came after Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Monday expressed hopes that Iran would start cooperating "as soon as possible" with the investigation. The IAEA has been pressing the Islamic republic to explain the previous presence of traces of nuclear material at three...
  • Kuwait stresses nuclear weapons-free Middle East

    Kuwait underscored the significance for Israel of joining the treaty since it is the only party in the region that did not join.
  • Iran reports new technical advances at nuclear plant: IAEA

    The UN watchdog's director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi said the changes at the plant under mountains south of the Iranian capital had been verified.
  • Iran says IAEA report on undeclared nuclear sites ‘not fair’

    Iran said Tuesday a report by the UN nuclear watchdog on undeclared nuclear material found at three sites was "not fair". "Unfortunately, this report does not reflect the reality of the negotiations between Iran and the IAEA," foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters, referring to the Monday report by...
  • Iran’s uranium pool exceeds nuclear deal limit: UN nuclear watchdog

    The International Atomic Energy Agency said in its latest report on Iran's nuclear program that it "estimated that, as of May 15, 2022, Iran's total enriched stockpile was 3,809.3 kilograms. The limit in the 2015 deal was set at 300 kg of a specific compound, the equivalent of 202.8 kg...
  • Iran hands UN nuclear watchdog documents on undeclared sites

    Iran on Wednesday said it has sent documents on its undeclared nuclear facilities to the UN atomic watchdog, bringing it a step closer to reviving its 2015 nuclear accord. Iran has restricted some inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which had previously called on Tehran to resolve questions...
  • Qatar, IAEA join hands for nuclear projects with peaceful uses

    Qatar’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has said the projects will cover a variety of sectors, including the medical, industrial, and environmental fields.
  • UN nuclear watchdog ‘concerned’ over undeclared Iran sites

    The UN nuclear watchdog also claimed its enriched uranium stockpile was 16 times over the limit These are the first substantive reports since Iran suspended some inspections in February   UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday, May 31,issued two reports in which it claimed Iran had not...