Tag: Nuclear Weapons

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wipes his cheek as he speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Shanghai, China, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Rouhani says an agreement on curbing its nuclear program is "very likely" by July despite a snag in talks last week, but said negotiations might also be extended. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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West says rifts remain over Iran nuke pact

George Jahn · May 22, 2014 6:28 pm

Iran's deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives for a press briefing for Iranian journalists after the closed-door nuclear talks at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Friday, May 16, 2014. Talks between Iran and six world powers hit a major snag Friday over the future size of a nuclear program that Tehran says it needs to expand to fuel atomic reactors, but which the U.S. fears could be used to make nuclear weapons. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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Iran nuclear talks round ends with big setbacks

George Jahn · May 16, 2014 8:02 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel while delivering remarks at his office on Friday, May 16, 2014 in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

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Hagel says US won’t let Iran build nuclear weapon

Robert Burns · May 16, 2014 9:50 am

European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, right, wait for the start of closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The talks between Iran and six world powers have entered an ambitious new stage with the two sides sitting down to start drafting the text of a final deal. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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Iran, 6 powers wrestle over text of nuke deal

George Jahn · May 14, 2014 1:47 pm

UN experts: Iran’s banned nuke buying has showed

Edith Lederer · May 13, 2014 12:39 am

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, second right, points a UV-Index Monitoring System, a device to measure the level of the ultraviolet radiation (UV), as he unveils it in a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 11, 2014. Rouhani said Sunday his country has nothing to offer except transparency in nuclear talks with world powers, rebuffing hard-liners as negotiators seek a final deal over the Islamic Republic's contested program. He is accompanied by Vice President for science and technology affairs Sorena Sattari, right, and Health Minister Hassan Hashemi. (AP Photo/ Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno)

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UN’s nuclear probe of Iran falters

George Jahn · May 12, 2014 7:57 pm

North Korea issues its latest nuclear threat

Washington Examiner · May 10, 2014 9:19 am

South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Kim Min-seok speaks about the outcome of a government investigation into unmanned drones recently found near the inter-Korean border areas, during a news conference at the ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Seoul's Defense Ministry announced Thursday that a joint investigation by South Korea and the U.S. concluded three drones found in the South in March and April were flown by North Korea on military surveillance missions. A ministry statement called the drone flights a military provocation and said that South Korea will strongly react to it. North Korea has denied it sent such drones, accusing South Korea of plotting another fabrication that shows its confrontational stance on the North. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. Pool)

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Seoul: North Korea preparing for 4th nuclear test

HyungJin Kim · May 8, 2014 11:04 am

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Putin oversees Russian nuclear forces exercise

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2014 10:40 am

FILE- In this file photo taken on April 3, 2006, members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard attend maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. Iran will target American aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf should a war between the two countries ever break out, the naval chief of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Tuesday as the country completes work on a large-scale mock-up of a U.S. carrier. (AP Photo/IRNA, File)

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Iran admiral: US ships are a target in case of war

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · May 6, 2014 5:59 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Iran's heavy water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran. International nuclear inspectors will visit two sites in Iran in the coming days, the country's official news agency reported Sunday, as an official said that would fulfill a series of demands made by the United Nations nuclear watchdog. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

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Report: Nuclear inspectors to visit Iranian sites

Nasser Karimi · May 4, 2014 7:08 pm

An Iranian missile passes in front of a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a military parade marking National Army Day outside Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Obama’s ‘process’ diplomacy plants seeds for future wars

James Jay Carafano · May 4, 2014 4:00 am