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March 2, 2023 - New measures target Iranian oil and petrochemical sales, as US says it is committed to reducing Iran’s energy exports.

March 21, 2024 - The United States is today imposing sanctions on procurement networks based in Iran, Türkiye, Oman, and Germany that have acquired goods for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization, Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), ...

October 4, 2024 - How is Iran's nuclear programme developing and are talks still on the table?

January 7, 2020 - Iran is no longer abiding by many of the restrictions in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to build a bomb, either.

July 11, 2023 - A U.S. intelligence assessment says Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons at the moment but has ramped up activities that could help it develop them.

July 20, 2024 - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said that Iran’s breakout time – the amount of time needed to produce enough weapons grade material for a nuclear weapon – “is now probably one or two weeks” as Tehran has continued to develop its nuclear program.

January 3, 2020 - Iran is not believed to possess nuclear weapons—something it officially forbids. But the U.S. exit from a nuclear deal remains at the center of a worsening conflict between the two nations.

October 2, 2023 - 12:49 p.m. EDT MR MILLER: Good afternoon, everyone. Full house today. Let me start with some brief comments before coming to questions. Found my pen. We strongly condemn the September 25th attack carried out by Houthi elements on the Saudi-Yemeni border that killed two Bahraini servicemembers ...

May 2, 2024 - Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John F. Plumb warned lawmakers that Russia is developing a nuclear weapon in space.

December 6, 2023 - The top U.N. official monitoring Iran's nuclear program has rejected Tehran's claim that its military sites were off-limits to inspection, saying his agency needs access to all "relevant locations" if suspicions arise of possible hidden atomic activities.

October 8, 2024 - There is no sign Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon and if it did, the U.S. could likely detect such a decision quickly, CIA Director William Burns said.

May 16, 2014 - Despite apparently reducing illicit purchases that breach U.N. sanctions, Iran is pursuing development of ballistic missiles, a confidential U.N. report says, posing an acute challenge to six powers negotiating with Tehran to rein in its nuclear program.

June 25, 2021 - A sixth round of talks has just ended and U.S. officials say they expect to return to Vienna for a seventh.

Strike destroyed equipment used to design explosives for bomb; will have to be replaced if regime seeks to press ahead. IAEA chief tours nuclear sites. Iran 'won't try to kill Trump'

Iran and Libya have pursued secret nuclear activities in violation of the treaty’s terms, and Syria is suspected of having done the same. Still, nuclear nonproliferation successes outnumber failures, and dire decades-old forecasts that the world would soon be home to dozens of nuclear-armed states ...

August 31, 2017 - The United States is pushing U.N. nuclear inspectors to check military sites in Iran to verify it is not breaching its nuclear deal with world powers. But for this to happen, inspectors must believe such checks are necessary and so far they do not, officials say.

July 19, 2024 - Two top Biden administration officials say Iran is talking more about getting a nuclear bomb, and has made strides in developing one key aspect of a weapon in recent months.

December 1, 2021 - The question, and its surprising answer, are more complicated than you might think.