Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, Nov 5, 2019. (AP) May 1, 2021 High-ranking diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia and Britain are set to resume talks Saturday focused on bringing the United States back into their landmark nuclear deal with Iran. The U.S. will not have a [...]
Iranian workers stand in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, October 26, 2010. (REUTERS) April 27, 2021 The parties negotiating a revival of the Iran nuclear deal agreed on Tuesday to speed up efforts to bring the US and Iran back into compliance, Russia’s envoy to the talks said. “The discussions proved [...]
Exterior view of the Grand Hotel Wien in Vienna, Austria, April 9, 2021 where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place. (AP) April 27, 2021 World powers were set to resume high level talks in Vienna on Tuesday focused on bringing the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, in their [...]
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov and Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif arrive for a joint news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 28, 2017. (AFP) April 27, 2021 The disruption of global traffic in the Suez Canal in late March after the giant container ship Ever Given went aground prompted Russia and Iran to mention, once [...]
A medical worker holds a vial with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine at a vaccination point at the GUM department store in Moscow on January 18, 2021. (AFP) April 15, 2021 Iran has finalized a deal with Russia to purchase 60 million doses of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the state-run IRNA news agency reported [...]
Group picture taken at the UN building in Vienna after Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal. (Reuters) April 7, 2021 A Russian diplomat participating in talks to save the Iran nuclear deal said Tuesday’s meeting had been “successful,” though their salvage efforts will take time. “The Joint Commission meeting [...]
Nuclear power plant near Bushehr, Iran. (AP) By Arsalan Shahla March 31, 2021 Iran said its only nuclear power plant could stop operating this year as the country struggles to keep the unit running because of sanctions. The Bushehr nuclear power station is “facing the risk of shutdown” because U.S. banking restrictions have [...]
Iran's national flags are seen on a square in Tehran February 10, 2012. (AP) By Andrew Hammond March 29, 2021 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in the middle of a key six-country Middle East tour, but the eyes of the world are as much on the deepening geopolitical alliance between Beijing and [...]
A medical worker holds a vial with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine at a vaccination point at the GUM department store in Moscow on Jan 18, 2021. (AFP) March 26, 2021 Iran expects to start domestic production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine in April, the RIA news agency cited the Iranian ambassador to Moscow [...]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (Reuters) March 18, 2021 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi discussed a Russian project to make new arrangements in Syria that consider Tel Aviv's interests, according to political sources in Tel Aviv. The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Lavrov and Ashkenazi held discussions [...]
