One person has been killed in an "industrial accident" near an Iranian military complex that has previously come under scrutiny by the UN nuclear watchdog, state media reported Thursday.

A delegation of 50 Iranian businessmen travelled to Oman last week, with Iran's minister for roads and urban development announcing plans for a joint shipping line and tourist flights.

The UAE has proactively invested in proven clean energy and within a decade, solar and peaceful nuclear energy have delivered a transformation of the UAE’s energy sector, ensuring the nation is ahead of the curve on achieving Net Zero by 2050, said Mohamed Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Managing Director and Chief...

North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile Saturday, Seoul said, its second missile launch in three days, after the United States warned Pyongyang could be preparing for a nuclear test.

Finnish-led consortium Fennovoima said on Monday it has terminated a contract with Russian group Rosatom to build Finland's third nuclear power plant, citing risks linked to the Ukraine war.

Iran on Monday said an agreement with world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal was still not in sight, blaming the United States for the delay. "More than one issue is still pending between Iran and the United States," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.

Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that Washington is "imposing new conditions" in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Nations and their companies have axed business ties with Russia over Ukraine.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that the country's negotiators would not return to Vienna, the site of the year-long talks to restore the nuclear deal — formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — until Washington settles outstanding issues.

Analysts say the successful launch of a missile may have emboldened Kim's confidence that his country is on the right track to achieving nuclear deterrence and that more such tests should be expected.

The deepening alliance between Israel and several Arab states "intimidates and deters" Iran, Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Monday as he hosted an unprecedented meeting with four Arab foreign ministers.

Iran has been engaged in negotiations to revive the accord with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly and the United States indirectly since April 2021.

The Russian hackers tried their exploits on thousands of computers at hundreds of companies in 135 countries between 2012 and 2018, which included energy-sector targets such as a US nuclear power operator and a Saudi petrochemical facility, the US Justice Department has said.

Iran said Monday it was awaiting "details" on Russia's demands for US guarantees that could potentially delay reaching an agreement in talks aiming to restore Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday after talks in Tehran that they agreed on an approach to resolve issues crucial in efforts to revive the country's 2015 nuclear deal.

With fears growing of nuclear conflict, the US and Russian armed forces have set up a new direct phone line to reduce the risks of ‘miscalculation’. But Vladimir Putin has been unmoved as Russia has become an economic, sporting, and cultural pariah.

Israel has said that regardless of any agreement that may be reached in Vienna, it would maintain full freedom to act against Iran.

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.

President Vladimir Putin ordered on Sunday Russia's nuclear forces onto high alert in response to what he called ‘unfriendly’ steps by the West. Russia has the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and a huge cache of ballistic missiles. The United States, the world's second-largest nuclear power, slammed the order.

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.

Parties to the deal have been negotiating in Vienna since last year with indirect US participation. Talks were most recently halted at the end of last month, and the negotiators returned to their capitals for consultations.

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.

French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the "need to accelerate" efforts to achieve progress in the Iranian nuclear talks, during a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi.

Diplomats meet in the Austrian capital to revive the 2015 deal involving Iran, the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.

Hours before the window for lodging objections closed, EU environment and energy ministers meeting in France on Friday differed sharply on a European Commission provision that would classify nuclear and natural gas energy as ‘sustainable’. Countries in the European Union had until midnight Friday to suggest modifications.

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.

The statement was issued after the latest review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) — which first came into force in 1970 — was postponed from its scheduled date of January 4 to later in the year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The fact that the European Commission quietly distributed the text of this proposal to member states late on Friday, in the final hours of 2021 after the much-delayed document had been twice promised earlier in the year, highlighted the rocky road to draft it.

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran director Mohammad Eslami said the enrichment levels were related to the needs of the country.

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.

The G7 on Sunday said time was running out for Iran to agree to a deal to curb its nuclear ambitions and warned Russia about the consequences of invading Ukraine. Foreign ministers from the world's richest nations have held a two-day meeting in Liverpool, northwest England, seeking to present a...

Ebrahim Raisi, who took office in August, listed inflation, high prices, and tax evasion as among the top challenges facing his government. He was speaking during a television interview on Sunday, December 5, marking his first 100 days in power.

Bahrain has stressed the importance of establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction for maintaining regional and international peace and security. An atmosphere free of the weapons of mass destruction would be in the spirit of the implementation of the 1995 Review...

The indirect negotiations in Vienna come amid mounting pressure on Iran, with Western nations warning that the clerical state's nuclear work is advancing to dangerous levels and Israel threatening to attack. EU envoy Enrique Mora, who led six rounds of talks earlier this year, will again chair the November 29...

Iran's foreign minister has tested positive for Covid, local media reported, at a key moment in diplomatic efforts to revive a nuclear agreement with major powers.

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...

The EU and world powers are scrambling to try to get negotiations in Vienna back on track.

Iran and Britain, China, France and Russia besides the EU opened talks in Vienna in April.

Tehran has decided to resume nuclear talks in Vienna after the new administration reviewed the previous round of talks, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in talks to revive a nuclear deal.

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...