Despite Iran’s repeated assertions that it is ready to start another round of talks aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal, Israel Hayom has learned that the assessment in Jerusalem is that this is nothing more than an Iranian tactic aimed at buying time.
Washington on Wednesday responded skeptically after Iran’s chief negotiator announced that Tehran was ready to return to nuclear negotiations in Vienna by the end of next month.
Iran has taken another step to increase its enrichment activities in purifying uranium beyond 20 percent, Reuters reported Monday, citing a report by the International Atomic Agency.
Iranian authorities on Tuesday blamed a mysterious cyber attack for unprecedented disruption to the country’s fuel distribution network.
US Defense officials said Monday they believe Iran was behind last week’s drone attack on an American military base in Syria, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Although the drones involved in the attack on the al-Tanf base were discovered to be Iranian, officials said it appears they were not launched from Iran.
Efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are at a “critical phase” and Tehran’s reasons for avoiding talks are wearing thin, a U.S. official said Monday while raising the possibility of further diplomacy even if the deal cannot be resuscitated.
The Israeli Air Force will begin practicing for a strike on Iran’s nuclear program beginning next year, having set aside funding and updated its training schedule for the mission, The Times of Israel has learned.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday at the seaside Russian resort of Sochi in a first official meeting between the two leaders.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iranian non-cooperation means that the organization’s ongoing oversight of the country’s nuclear program is “no longer intact” in an interview with NBC News aired Saturday.
If Israel launches an attack on Iran, Tehran’s response will cost the country billions to rebuild, one of Iran’s top officials warned Sunday.
The Israeli Air Force has resumed training for a possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Israeli television reported Thursday.
Iran on Thursday kicked off an air force drill across the country, a week after holding another massive exercise in air defense, state TV reported.
Israel is advancing military plans to confront Iran’s nuclear program and oppose the Islamic Republic’s growing influence in the region.
The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog plans to visit Iran before the end of next month, amid questions about whether Iran will return to negotiations aimed at reviving the languishing 2015 nuclear deal.
Israel has approved a budget of some 5 billion shekels ($1.5 billion) to be used to prepare the military for a potential strike against Iran’s nuclear program, Channel 12 reported Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is set to ask Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to lean on Iran regarding its forces stationed in Syria near Israel’s northern border, when the pair meet later this week.
Israel has prevented dozens of Jewish families of the ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor from fleeing to Iran amid fears they could be used as bargaining chips by Tehran, Worthy News learned Friday.
The United States and Israel have announced they are considering alternative options for dealing with Iran in the event the Islamic regime refuses to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal and comply with the limits on uranium enrichment set out in the 2015 agreement, AP reports. After former president Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran, the Islamic regime began enriching uranium to levels exceedingly far above the amount agreed to in the deal.
US President Joe Biden’s administration hinted Wednesday that it could use force if diplomacy fails on Iran’s nuclear program.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Tuesday that Iran is “becoming a nuclear threshold state.”