Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has ruled out the idea of Turkey and Brazil joining the major powers’ talks on the Iranian nuclear program. “There have been no discussions on the issue,” RIA Novosti quoted Lavrov as saying on Wednesday. After the Tehran declaration was signed, Iran called for the participation of Turkey and Brazil [...]

Britain and France will push for more UN sanctions against Iran despite a nuclear fuel swap deal while the EU and Germany say they want to see details of the agreement. French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said the deal was “necessary” but “would in no way resolve the problem posed by the Iranian nuclear [...]

Brazilian Foreign minister Celso Amorim says his country wants to play a positive role in settling disagreements over the Iranian nuclear program. “Brazil is interested to have a share in settling the [Iranian nuclear] issue in an appropriate way, “Amorim said at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran on [...]

Tehran’s Ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog Ali Asghar Soltanieh has provided more details about the nature of the Iranian nuclear program. One week after the new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief, Yukiya Amano, issued a report about Iran’s nuclear program, Soltanieh on Wednesday shed light on certain aspects of the Iranian nuclear work. [...]

The White House on Thursday said Iran’s declaration of producing first stock of enriched uranium for a research reactor was based “on politics”, and “not on physics.” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iran had produced the first stock of 20 percent enriched uranium at the Natanz enrichment facility. But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs [...]

The United Nations atomic watchdog has convened for a two-day meeting to discuss the Iranian nuclear program. According to AFP, the 35-member board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began two days of deliberations covering various topics, including Iran, North Korea, Syria and a Russian proposal for a fuel bank. It will [...]

“US allies in the Middle East should strengthen their respective militaries in order to deter Iran from continuing its suspected nuclear weapons program,” US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in an interview published by Al-Jazeera on Tuesday. “One of the pathways to get the Iranians to change their approach on the nuclear issue, is [...]

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has arrived in Washington for talks with his US counterpart Barack Obama, to discuss the stalled Arab-Israeli peace deal. In what is his first visit to the United States in five years, Mubarak is expected to focus on Middle East peace, the Iranian nuclear program, Sudan, combating “extremists and promoting reform [...]

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal says his country and the United States are “working closely” on Iranian nuclear program. “Today, our two nations are working closely … to emphasize the need for Iran to adhere to its obligation under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” al-Faisal said in a joint news conference with US Secretary [...]