For the past 10 days, various officials have suggested the deal - which US then-president Donald Trump scrapped in 2018 - might not be renewed until at least mid-November, a deadline that Lapid has tried to use to push the West to impose a tougher approach in their negotiations.
Israel PM talks Iran, Lebanon with Macron on his first trip
Iran and its influence in the Middle East took center stage on Tuesday in talks between Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid with French President Emmanuel Macron during Lapid's first trip abroad in office.US top diplomat in Israel for landmark Arab talks
According to US officials, discussion over the nuclear deal with Iran and global wheat shortage caused by the Ukraine war are among the main agenda of this trip of the US Secretary of State.
Blinken to travel to Israel, West Bank, Morocco, Algeria
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria over March 26-30 to discuss the Ukraine war, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the Iran nuclear deal, and gas from Algeria, among other things, the US State Department has announced.
US less optimistic over reaching Iran nuclear deal
US optimism that a deal to restore the 2015 agreement to limit Iran's nuclear developed has soured, with the State Department warning Tuesday it was headed toward "Plan B" if Tehran doesn't budge. Just a week ago Washington officials were hopeful that an agreement that aimed to halt Iran's march...Iran talks raise possibility of IRGC losing ‘terrorist’ designation
Sources close to the negotiations in Vienna have said that one of Tehran's conditions was the removal of the largely symbolic designation, which equates the Revolutionary Guards with the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda.Must conclude Iran nuclear talks this week, says France
The negotiations to revive the deal involve Iran as well as France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indirectly. The 2015 agreement gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, but the US unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018 under Donald Trump.
France warns Iran only days left to agree nuclear deal
"It is not a question of weeks, it is a question of days," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the Senate.US President under pressure as Iran nuclear talks resume
The subject of the Iran nuclear deal has been somewhat on mute in Washington after 10 months of indirect talks failed to achieve the breakthrough that US President Joe Biden hoped for and a revival of the 2015 nuclear deal repudiated by his predecessor Donald Trump.US says Iran nuclear deal ‘in sight’ but urgent need to finalize
Former US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, and reimposed tough economic sanctions on the country, prompting it to begin pulling back from its commitments under the pact and step up its nuclear activities.US waives sanctions for Iran civil nuclear program
The resumption of the waiver, ended by the Donald Trump administration in 2020, ‘would be essential to ensuring Iran's swift compliance’ if a new deal on controlling Tehran's nuclear program can be reached in talks in Vienna, a US State Department official has said.
Iran nuclear talks requires ‘political decisions’
Diplomats meet in the Austrian capital to revive the 2015 deal involving Iran, the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.
US top official confers with Israel, Iran on nuclear deal
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government has called for a halt to international efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal. The accord saw Iran agreeing to limits on its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief from world powers.
Iran slams Western statement on its regional actions
Tehran on Friday criticized as "illegitimate" a Western statement that assured Arab allies their security interests would be taken into account during talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal.Iran says world powers must be ‘realistic’ in nuclear talks
Tehran has said the world powers should not exceed the bounds of the 2015 deal they are seeking to revive. The deal was between Iran and five world powers other than Russia: Britain, China, France, Germany and the US.
US targets Iran’s drone program with sanctions
The sanctions boosted pressure on Iran ahead of the reopening of negotiations on the country's nuclear program. The sanctions came nine days after an attack on a US military base in Al-Tanf in Syria that involved drones, and two days after Iran said it would return to talks to revive...EU and Iran to revive nuclear talks this week
The EU and world powers are scrambling to try to get negotiations in Vienna back on track.EU envoy on nuclear talks meets Iran deputy minister
The talks came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned of "other options" if diplomacy failed.
Iran looks east after China-led bloc okays entry
Iran has been trying to enter the SCO for years, and was close last year, but Tajikisatn objected to it.Man faces 20 years in prison in US for illegally exporting laboratory equipment to Iran
Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, aka Reza Sarhang, co-owned the Canada-based company Prolife Global, which conducted business in the US and elsewhere.
US mulls crackdown on Chinese imports of Iranian oil
The United States is planning a crackdown on Iranian oil sales to China in violation of its sanctions
Iran opens oil terminal in Gulf of Oman to bypass Strait of Hormuz
Iran has started exporting crude through its first terminal in the Gulf of Oman, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz to the northUN 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...
