Topic: Ali Asghar Soltanieh

A senior Iranian envoy accused the International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday of false reporting in saying that agency inspectors probing a laboratory for suspected undeclared nuclear experiments found some equipment removed.Ali Ashgar Soltanieh declined a direct answer when asked if he ...

Iran denies nuclear gear vanished from facility

Iran officially denied Wednesday that key nuclear equipment had disappeared from a facility in Tehran, saying a corresponding report by the UN atomic watchdog was "wrong".And Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the Islamic republic was ...

Iran says enriching to higher levels as backup plan

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is enriching nuclear material to higher levels as a backup plan because it fears it will not receive foreign fuel for a medical research reactor, Tehran's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Wednesday.Iran started refining uranium ...
Iranian and Israeli officials traded barbs during nuclear talks in Cairo, an Egyptian official who attended the first high level contact between the two arch-foes in 30 years told AFP on Thursday.The Egyptian delegate to the talks held under the auspices of ...
Iran will continue to enrich uranium while there is no legally-binding international assurance of a nuclear fuel supply, the country's envoy to the UN's nuclear energy watchdog said Thursday. "We are going to continue as long as there is no legally-binding instrument ...