Iran Nuclear

Iran’s parliament on Wednesday demanded that the government halt all new negotiations with the United States unless strict preconditions are met, citing what lawmakers called Washington’s use of diplomacy as cover for military escalation.

The United States is in no hurry to enter talks with Iran, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, pointing to last month’s American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities as a source of leverage.

The UN sanctions on Iran will be restored via the so-called "snapback mechanism" if no nuclear deal is reached by end of August, the US, British, French, and German foreign ministers agreed in a Monday call, according to a report by Axios.

Iran may now decide to develop nuclear weapons following the US attacks on its main nuclear sites last month, former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview.

Iran could boost its uranium enrichment to 90%, weapons-grade level, and consider exiting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European powers move to trigger the UN snapback sanctions mechanism, Tasnim News reported on Tuesday.

France, Britain, and Germany will activate the United Nations snapback mechanism against Iran by the end of August if no tangible progress is made on a nuclear deal by then, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Iranians abroad in an open letter on Monday that Tehran was determined to mend fences abroad through diplomacy and fix its economy, weeks after a punishing conflict with Israel and the United States.

Iran will deliver a "proportionate and appropriate response" if European parties move to re-activate the UN snapback mechanism to reinstate international sanctions removed under the 2015 nuclear deal, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.

More than 400 senior clerics in Iran’s holy city of Qom have backed a religious decree labeling threats against Supreme Leader as “moharebeh” or “waging war against God,” a crime in Islamic law that can carry the death penalty.

An advisor to Iran's parliament speaker has shared an image that seems to show a nuclear attack on Israel.

A senior Iranian lawmaker on Saturday accused International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors of hiding surveillance microchips in their shoes during visits to Iran’s nuclear sites.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Iranian officials to accept a nuclear agreement that would ban uranium enrichment, a key US demand in any future talks, Axios reported Saturday citing multiple sources.

Recent satellite imagery shows Iran has not begun recovery or excavation work at key nuclear tunnel entrances at the Isfahan complex, where enriched uranium is believed to be stored, analysts from the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said Friday.

The Islamic Republic may have suffered a punishing blow in the recent 12-day war but has not backed down and may resort to assassinations, former White House official Michael Doran told Eye for Iran.

Iran's foreign ministry on Friday condemned German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s blessing of Israel’s military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, saying his remarks make Germany complicit in the attacks.

Iran’s Supreme Leader faces a narrowing set of options after the collapse of his regional military strategy, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a letter to Ali Khamenei.

Iran could resume cooperation with with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if the UN watchdog ends its “double standards”, President Masoud Pezeshkian told the European Council president according to state media.

Iran did not move its highly enriched uranium stockpile before US airstrikes last month hit its key nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan, an Israeli official told Reuters.