Tehran remains open to resuming negotiations with Washington on restoring their participation in a nuclear agreement, Iran's acting foreign minister told Newsweek magazine in an interview published on Tuesday.
The US is not engaged in any nuclear talks with Iran, the White House national security spokesman told Iran International on Thursday, denying the Iranian top diplomat's claim about ongoing nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington via Oman.
The Biden administration is not ready to resume nuclear talks with Iran under the new president, the White House national security council spokesman said Monday.
In the second and final debate on Tuesday between Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, the two candidates competing in Iran’s runoff presidential election, discussed Iran’s nuclear issue and the economic crisis.
Iran has installed half of the advanced uranium-enriching machines it recently announced for its underground Fordow site, according to a UN nuclear watchdog report seen by Reuters.
The United States on Thursday imposed new Iran-related sanctions in response to Tehran's "nuclear escalations and lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog."
Former US State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus took aim at the Biden administration's strategy on Iran, urging for more robust and assertive US policy to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.
The representatives of Western powers vowed in a UN Security Council meeting to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon using "all means necessary" including by reinstating the UN sanctions.
Iran’s top nuclear official says the country's interactions with the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, are limited to the legal boundaries of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Safeguards.
Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran incurred an annual loss of some $100 billion over the past three years due to sanctions that forced the country to sell oil and petrochemicals at discounted rates.
The nuclear issue and the crippling impact of sanctions on the Iranian economy, so far largely avoided by the candidates, appear to be turning into an important part of discussions and debates.
Iran is set to triple or even quadruple its uranium enrichment capacity at Fordow, one of the country's most secretive nuclear facilities, according to reports published by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and the Washington Post on Wednesday.
Iran's Acting Foreign Minister claims the country has followed the right path in nuclear negotiations and is in an excellent position, in spite of it being under global sanctions for its nuclear program.