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Iran Has Enriched Uranium to 27%

Mark Russell — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:48:05 CDT

Iran was already making the world nervous with the revelation it was enriching uranium to 20% at its Fordo facility. But now the IAEA says it has found traces of uranium enriched up to 27% at Fordo, according to a confidential report to be released to IAEA board members today....

Iran Nuclear Talks: No Deal, Except One to Keep Talking

John Johnson — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:54:46 CDT

The talks on Iran's nuclear program that began amid such high hopes didn't exactly succeed, but they didn't exactly fail, either. Instead, both sides have agreed to keep talking, reports the New York Times . The next round will be June 18-19 in Russia, one of six nations including the US...

Iran Balks at Nuclear Offer

Rob Quinn — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:54:00 CDT

Talks between Iran and six world powers about Iran's nuclear program yesterday yielded only an agreement to keep talking today. During the talks in Baghdad , negotiators offered Iran a package of benefits for freezing uranium enrichment, but the country's official news agency slammed the package as "outdated, not comprehensive, and...

Iran Nuclear Talks Begin With 'New Offer'

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:40:21 CDT

Today's the day: Iran is sitting down with six nations to talk nukes, an event that has been described in terms of cautious optimism for days. Now that it's actually here, what's worth knowing, and what should you be watching for? A primer: The talks began about noon local time...

UN Nuke Chief: Iran Inspection Deal Reached

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:50:53 CDT

The good news: In what the New York Times describes as an "apparent breakthrough," the UN's nuclear chief today announced that Iran has decided to sign a "structured agreement" that would establish how IAEA inspectors would conduct a restarted probe into the military potential of the country's nuclear program. The...

Obama Tells Karzai: 'We're on the Right Track'

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:35:00 CDT

President Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai today at the NATO summit and urged world leaders to agree on post-2014 Afghanistan, MSNBC reports. "What this NATO summit reflects is that the world is behind strategy we've laid out," Obama said of the plan to pull out coalition troops in...

This Time, Iran Nuke Talks Might Actually Work

John Johnson — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:06:27 CDT

Negotiators from Iran sit down with those from the US and five other nations Wednesday, and a rare thing is emerging from much of the advance coverage—a sense that Tehran is genuinely ready to curb its nuclear program. The New York Times says as much today with its top...

Iran Threatens Google Over Nameless Gulf

Rob Quinn — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:19:23 CDT

The body of water separating Iran from the Arabian peninsula is nameless on Google Maps, and Iran isn't happy about it. Iran's foreign ministry accuses Google of dropping the name Persian Gulf "as one of the seditionist acts taken as part of the soft war against the Iranian nation," Reuters...

US 'Ready' to Strike Iran: Ambassador

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:25:28 CDT

The US has all the planning in place to launch a military strike on Iran should diplomacy fail to curb its nuclear ambitions, the US ambassador to Israel said today, just days before nuclear talks are set to resume. "It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically," Ambassador Dan Shapiro...