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2025-06-12 23:53
By Soheila Zarfam
Tehran’s strategic calculus: Why pressure on the IAEA leads to Iran’s nuclear acceleration
TEHRAN - The June 12th resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors marks a critical juncture in the long-running diplomatic dispute between Western capitals and Tehran over the country's peaceful nuclear program.
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2025-06-01 23:26
By Soheila Zarfam
IAEA’s old playbook may lead to different consequences this time
TEHRAN – Western states have long used the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a tool of pressure against Iran, recycling discredited Israeli intelligence and crying "non-compliance" whenever diplomatic progress fails to yield them concessions from Iran. But after years of this tired strategy - and despite Iranians’ continued good-faith cooperation - Tehran may finally be ready to reset the equation.
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2025-05-23 20:37
By Dr. Sasan Karimi
The legitimacy of running the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism
An analysis of E3 compliance and Iran’s responsive measures
TEHRAN – The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed in 2015, incorporates a Dispute Resolution Mechanism (DRM), commonly referred to as the “snap-back mechanism,” to enforce compliance.
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2025-05-17 21:58
Exclusive: Any nuclear consortium must involve enrichment to happen in Iran
TEHRAN – Iran is open to exploring a nuclear consortium with regional countries, provided that it continues to enrich uranium domestically, according to information obtained by the Tehran Times. However, concrete plans for such a consortium are yet to be developed.
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2025-04-25 22:26
By Xavier Villar
How Europe caused a diplomatic fallout with Iran, and how it can undo it
MADRID – In the ongoing indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States to reach a new nuclear agreement, a significant absence stands out compared to the talks that led to the landmark JCPOA: the absence of European countries.
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2025-04-22 22:17
By Staff Writer
West exploited media to influence JCPOA talks, and Iran wants to prevent a repeat of that
TEHRAN – Western governments have long wielded the media as a political tool. They use it to justify their crimes against other nations, manufacture consent for future ones, and demonize their adversaries. this practice is as old as World War I, when both sides crafted narratives through newspapers, posters, films, speeches, and cartoons to persuade their people that sacrificing their lives for a conflict of devastating destruction was essential.
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2025-04-19 12:27
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian
A nuclear deal with Iran is possible—but only if the U.S. learns from history
As the second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran gets underway this weekend, suspicion and distrust between the two sides remain high. U.S. President Donald Trump continues to make threats against the country I served for years as a policymaker and a diplomat. Understandably, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei remains cautious. “We are very pessimistic about the other side, but we are optimistic about our own capabilities,” he said recently.
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2025-04-09 21:04
By Soheila Zarfam
Ahead of Oman talks, Pezeshkian says Iran will not cede its achievements
TEHRAN – As Iran and the United States prepare to hear each other’s gripes during indirect Oman-mediated negotiations on Saturday, President Masoud Pezeshkian told a number of officials gathered to celebrate Iran’s nuclear achievements that the country has no intention of developing nukes but won’t relinquish its impressive progress in the field either.
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2025-04-08 21:45
By Mona Hojat Ansari
Saturday test for US
Iran to evaluate Washington's true intentions during indirect Oman talks
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is slated to visit Oman for indirect talks with Washington, offering U.S. President Donald Trump a chance to give fresh life to the nuclear deal he unraveled in 2018.
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2025-04-02 02:33
No such thing as ‘military option’ let alone ‘military solution’ to Iran nuclear issue: Tehran
TEHRAN - Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has stressed the importance of diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program, warning there is no “military solution” as tensions escalate following U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to bomb Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
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2025-03-24 14:06
China’s five-point proposition on the Iran nuclear issue
Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister, met ? on 14 March 2025 with Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov Sergey Alexeevich of the Russian Federation and Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi of the Islamic Republic of Iran?who attended the Beijing Meeting between China, Russia and Iran, and proposed the following five points on the proper settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue.
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2025-03-23 14:11
Iran insists ready to return to nuclear commitments if its rights are restored
TEHRAN – A top Iranian nuclear official has reiterated Tehran’s long-held position that the Islamic Republic is ready to return to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear agreement if the other parties honor its rights.
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2025-03-13 18:55
Iran summons E3 envoys over ‘provocative’ closed-door UN security council session
TEHRAN - Tehran has summoned the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany to express strong opposition to their role in convening a recent United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran's nuclear program.
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2025-02-26 22:30
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Will Europe trigger snapback?
Dependence on US means tensions could further escalate with Iran, even if Europe doesn’t want that
TEHRAN – The 2015 Iran nuclear deal (officially the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) contains a "snapback" mechanism, which allows any signatory to reinstate pre-existing UN sanctions against Iran if they determine that the country is not staying true to the agreement.
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2025-02-21 21:00
Iran-Europe talks continue as 'snapback' threat hangs over JCPOA
TEHRAN – Iran ruled out any talks with the United States earlier this month, five years after Washington withdrew from the deal—two years in the making—it signed in 2015, and as President Donald Trump seems unlikely to change his hawkish track.
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2025/02/10
By Xavier Villar
Iran's deep-seated mistrust of U.S.
Tracing the path from the CIA-orchestrated coup in 1953 to Trump’s shunning of JCPOA in 2018
MADRID – During a recent meeting, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei took the opportunity to clearly and firmly articulate his stance on potential talks with the United States.
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2025-02-10 22:24
Trump says he would ‘bomb the hell out of Iran’ if it doesn’t agree to his demands
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump made shocking statements on Saturday, suggesting in remarks to an American media outlet that he would first attempt to secure a deal requiring extreme military concessions from Iran, but if unsuccessful, he would "bomb the hell” out of the country.
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2025-02-08 22:05
By Sadra Sedaghat
The high wall of distrust built by America
TEHRAN – Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, recently addressed the possibility of future talks with the United States in remarks that garnered worldwide attention.
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2025/02/07
By Mahdi Mohammadi
Suppose we’ve just decided to negotiate...
TEHRAN – Let's say we decide to negotiate with Trump under today’s circumstances. Here's what’s likely to happen:
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2025/02/07
By Mohammad Sarfi, editor-in-chief
Experience of talks could have been different, but US did not want
TEHRAN - Western media and analysts like to have their own interpretations of events. There's nothing wrong with that! As long as these interpretations are not completely contradictory to reality. One of these events is the dispute between Iran and the United States. U.S. presidents, whether Democrat or Republican, disagree on many issues, but Iran is perhaps the only topic on which they have little disagreement.
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2025-02-07 21:35
The reason? Experience
Leader says talks with U.S. unwise, unsmart, and dishonorable
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ruled out any negotiations with the U.S., stating that Iran learned in the 2010s that Washington cannot be trusted.
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2025-02-03 22:37
Iran is no longer under serious security threats, says Zarif
TEHRAN – Iran’s Vice President for Strategic Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, delivered a strong message regarding Iran's regional position and security during a gathering in Tehran on Monday.
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2025-01-23 16:51
Tehran describes UN chief’s remarks on its nuclear program as audacious
TEHRAN - The Iranian foreign minister on Thursday described as "audacious" UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ remarks about Iran's peaceful nuclear activities, reaffirming Tehran’s “longstanding commitment” to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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2025-01-22 22:29
Resistance will continue as long as Israeli occupation exists: Zarif
TEHRAN – Resistance movements emerged in response to Israeli occupation, apartheid policies, and acts of genocide, and they will persist until these issues are resolved, said Iran’s Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif.
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2025-01-20 22:32
Attempts to exploit snapback will be met with Iran’s reciprocal response: foreign ministry
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, has issued a warning regarding the potential misuse of the snapback mechanism relating to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which could reinstate suspended sanctions.
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2025-01-18 22:46
By Mona Hojat Ansari
West abandoned JCPOA revival talks in 2022 despite near-agreement, Ulyanov tells Tehran Times
TEHRAN – For those who have closely tracked the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Mikhail Ulyanov is a well-known name. As Russia's Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna, Ulyanov played an active role in the multiple rounds of negotiations between JCPOA signatories aimed at salvaging the deal after the U.S. unilaterally withdrew in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran.
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2025-01-14 22:08
By Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares
The UN can end the Middle East conflict by welcoming Palestine as a member
The UN, on its 80th birthday in 2025, can mark the occasion by securing a lasting solution to the conflict in the Middle East, by welcoming the State of Palestine as the 194th UN member state. The upcoming UN Conference on Palestine, set for June 2025, can be a turning point – a decisive, irreversible path towards peace in the Middle East. The Trump administration would greatly serve America’s interests, and the world’s, by championing the two-state solution and a comprehensive Middle East peace deal, at the gathering in New York in June.
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2025-01-07 22:26
By Mona Hojat Ansari
Iran drill downs bunker busters over Natanz
The maneuver comes after weeks of media frenzy over potential American attacks on Iranian nuclear sites
TEHRAN – Bunker busters are some of the most fearsome bombs used by militaries around the world. They are believed to be capable of penetrating underground facilities, tunnels, and complexes. But as Iranian defense systems downed projectiles mirroring the features of a hostile bunker buster on Tuesday, the event seemed surprisingly routine.
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2025-01-04 02:52
Iran says ready to enter 'constructive' talks for new nuclear deal
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said the Islamic Republic is ready to resume constructive and immediate talks on its nuclear program with the Western sides.
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2025-01-01 22:36
Missile capabilities secured Iran’s seat at negotiation table: Araghchi
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has emphasized the critical role of Iran's missile capabilities in shaping its diplomatic engagements with global powers.