This is Beirut, 2025-09-19 15:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The United Nations Security Council will vote Friday on reimposing deep economic sanctions on Iran over its resurgent nuclear program. Britain, France and Germany -- signatories to a 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) intended to stop Tehran obtaining nuclear weapons -- allege that Iran has broken its ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-19 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran late Thursday withdrew a draft resolution at the UN nuclear watchdog that called to ban attacks against nuclear facilities after its war with Israel, citing reported US pressure for the last-minute change. In mid-June, Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that saw Israeli and US strikes on ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-17 15:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran on Wednesday dismissed as "nonsense" US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's criticism this week of the Islamic republic's missile program as an "unacceptable risk". "He was speaking nonsense," foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told journalists, adding the United States was "not supposed to comment on the defensive capabilities of a ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-17 14:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran said Wednesday it expects European powers who triggered a snapback of UN sanctions to respond positively to its signing of a new cooperation agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog. The statement came as Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi prepared to speak by telephone on Wednesday with his British, French and German counterparts. "We have ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-17 12:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK has delivered pledges from US tech giants to invest a combined $42 billion to help drive Britain's AI sector. The UK and US governments, meanwhile, agreed on cooperation over nuclear and space technology as part of a "Tech Prosperity Deal", and British pharmaceutical group GSK pledged investment in ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-12 09:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that enriched nuclear material remained "under the rubble" of facilities damaged during the recent war with Israel. "All of our material is... under the rubble of the bombed facilities," said Araghchi in a televised interview, adding that Iran's Atomic Energy ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-10 16:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iran's new cooperation framework with the UN nuclear watchdog includes "all facilities and installations" in the Islamic republic, the agency's head said Wednesday, though Iran said the agreement itself "does not create access." Iran agreed to a deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday, after ...
Mario Chartouni, 2025-09-08 19:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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At the end of August, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (the E3) officially triggered the snapback mechanism outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which governs the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA). This unprecedented procedure in the multilateral system stipulates that all previous UN ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-29 17:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss Tehran's nuclear program with his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, in China on Monday, a meeting that comes as Iran faces fresh Western pressure. Britain, France and Germany have moved to reimpose sanctions on Iran, saying the country is failing to comply with a 2015 nuclear deal. Moscow on ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-29 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Following the European decision to trigger the mechanism that could reinstate international sanctions against Iran within a month—a move set to be reviewed Friday by the UN Security Council, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-president, Kaja Kallas said Friday, “Western countries now have 30 days to find ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-24 05:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the test-firing of two new air defence missiles, state media said Sunday, after Pyongyang accused Seoul of fomenting tensions on the border. The test-firing, which took place Saturday, showed that the two "improved" missile weapon systems had "superior combat capability", the Korean ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-22 18:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Iran will meet next week with Britain, France and Germany on its nuclear programme, the parties said Friday, as the European powers warned Tehran to engage swiftly to avoid snapback sanctions. The Islamic republic suspended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency in July in the wake of its 12-day war with Israel, citing the UN ...