WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is signaling that Iran shouldn't expect major new concessions from the United States as a new round of indirect nuclear talks is set to resume. A senior administration official told reporters Thursday that the U.S. has laid out the concessions it’s prepared to make in...
Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Vienna Amid New Complications
BERLIN — World powers resumed high-level talks in Vienna on Tuesday focused on bringing the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, in their first session since comments surfaced from the Iranian foreign minister alleging that Russia once tried to scupper the pact. The Russian Foreign Ministry has...
UN Agency: Iran Violating All Restrictions of Nuclear Deal
VIENNA — Iran has continued to increase its stockpiles of enriched uranium and remains in violation of its deal with world powers, the United Nations' atomic watchdog said Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported the finding in a confidential document distributed to member countries and seen by The Associated...
New Bank System Could Protect Iran Nuclear Deal: German Official
BERLIN — Germany's foreign minister is calling for Europe to create a payments system independent of the United States, a move that could help keep alive the nuclear deal with Iran following the withdrawal of the U.S. Heiko Maas' suggestion was part of a wider-ranging piece for Wednesday's edition of...
Is Trump Team Advocating for Iran Regime Change?
Two of President Donald Trump's high-profile allies will address a "Free Iran" conference Saturday (June 30) organized by a controversial group that advocates for regime change in the Islamist country, according to a story in Politico. Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal lawyer, and informal advisor Newt Gingrich are headlining the...
Zakaria: Regime Change Drives Trump on Iran
President Trump's withdrawal from the six-nation Iran nuclear agreement last week left many in the international community, including close U.S. allies, scratching their heads. "It's hard to understand the rationale behind Trump's decision," says Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria in his May 10 commentary. "If there is a strategy behind Trump's move,...
Macron Struggles To Prevent Iran Deal Collapse
During his three-day U.S. visit last week, French president Emmanuel Macron lobbied hard to preserve the six-nation nuclear agreement with Iran that President Donald Trump seems determined to scuttle. In his April 27 column in The Washington Post, Fareed Zakaria writes, "He is trying to stop President Trump from dividing...
Saudi Arabia Needs Iran Nuclear Deal to Collapse
President Donald Trump is once again indicating he may withdraw from an international agreement designed to curb Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions. "My view is... that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons," said French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of a three-day state visit to...