An Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the United States in 2009 only to return to his country the next year has been executed in Iran for giving “vital information to the enemy,” the Iranian judiciary announced Sunday. Shahram Amiri had been sentenced to death by an lower court before his execution...

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Top Israeli defense officials rejected on Friday President Barack Obama’s assertion that Israel’s security establishment now “acknowledges” that the nuclear deal with Iran “has been a game changer” and a benefit to the Jewish state’s security. “The Israeli security establishment believes that agreements only have value if they are based on existing reality and...

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Iran will be able to produce enough nuclear material for an atomic weapon in as little as four months by 2029, the Institute for Science and International Security concluded in a report (.pdf) released Tuesday. A secret addendum to last year’s nuclear deal, which was obtained by the Associated Press last...

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Just a week after Iran’s foreign minister boasted of a previously secret document detailing Iran’s plan to restore its full uranium enrichment capacity on year 10 of the nuclear deal, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that his country would officially protest the leak to the International Atomic...

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The speaker of Iran’s parliament said that his nation must confront the United States and prepare “a plan for the launch of a nuclear plant for enrichment,” Iranian media reported on Wednesday. Speaker Ali Larijani said that his parliament “is warning the US administration and its House of Representatives and...

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The revelation earlier this week of a secret document of the Iran nuclear deal shows that the P5+1 group of global powers have legitimized Iran’s uranium enrichment program, a leading nuclear proliferation expert said Tueseday. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National...

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Iran’s foreign minister called his country’s ability to restore its uranium enrichment program after the tenth year of the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last year a “matter of pride,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s comments came in response to a report published Monday by the AP about a secret add-on to...

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Iranian hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are “gaining authority” in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal, Reuters reported on Monday. “Khamenei’s allies control the bulk of financial resources as well as the judiciary, the security forces, public broadcasters and the Guardian Council which vets laws and...

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Iran test-fired a new kind of ballistic missile using North Korean technology on the night of July 11-12, Fox News reported on Friday, citing multiple intelligence officials. The latest test, the ninth Iran carried out since it reached a nuclear deal with global powers last year, was held two days before the one-year anniversary of...

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Fifteen Democratic senators who originally supported the nuclear deal with Iran have written a letter to President Barack Obama criticizing the deal’s inspection procedures, Politico reported Friday. The group, led by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), called on Obama to pressure the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which performs inspections on suspected Iranian nuclear sites,...

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