VIENNA: Nuclear talks betweenIranand the UN atomic agency failed yet again Wednesday, as a topUSdiplomat said she expected the IAEA to reportTehranto the UN Security Council soon. The IAEA announcement came just as EU foreign policy chief was due to meetIran’s chief nuclear negotiator ...

TOKYO The International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday called on the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to improve "essential systems" as it struggles to deal with leaks and power cuts. The stricken site has suffered an increasingly long line of mishaps, including a series of ...

VIENNA  : The UN atomic agency said Monday that it was discussing withIranpossible dates for what would be the 10th round of talks since late 2011 onTehran’s suspected nuclear bomb-making efforts. “I can confirm we are discussing possible dates of a meeting withIran,” ...

RIYADH (AFP) - The Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday called for international inspectors to be sent to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant over concerns of possible radiation leaks after an earthquake hit the area.The body demanded the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “send a ...

VIENNA (AFP) - The head of the UN atomic agency called Monday on Iran to grant access to a military base where Tehran allegedly conducted nuclear weapons research, without waiting for an elusive wider accord.“I request Iran once again to provide access to the Parchin site without further ...

VIENNA  - The UN nuclear agency expressed confidence Friday that it will clinch a deal with Iran next month under which Tehran will at last answer “credible” evidence of atomic weapons research, but analysts and Western diplomats were sceptical. Returning from “good ...

TEHRAN - UN atomic watchdog experts arrived in Iran on Thursday to renew efforts to engage Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme, but media reports said an inspection visit to suspect sites was off the agenda.The seven-strong International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team was scheduled to hold ...

VIENNA (AFP) - The chief UN nuclear inspector said he hoped Iran would grant access during talks in Tehran on Thursday to a military base central to the IAEA’s suspicions of atomic weapons research.“We also hope that Iran will allow us to go the site of Parchin, and if Iran would grant ...

PARIS (AFP) - The standoff on Iran’s nuclear programme is worrying, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said Monday, but stressed that work for a diplomatic solution should continue. Yakio Amano’s comments came as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned that Tehran was on ...

VIENNA  - The UN atomic agency said Friday it will hold in December its first talks with Iran since August over Tehran's contested nuclear programme, in a first sign of renewed diplomatic activity since the US election."The IAEA and Iran have agreed to hold further talks on 13 December in ...

JAIPUR (AFP) - A team from the UN's nuclear watchdog began a safety inspection Monday at a power plant in northern India where dozens of workers were exposed to radiation in separate leaks earlier this year.The inspectors were touring the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station to "review the programmes and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The UN nuclear chief said on Wednesday that Iran’s allegation his agency may have been infiltrated by saboteurs was baseless and voiced concern about “intensive activities” at the Parchin military installation that his inspectors want to examine.Years of ...

DUBAI - A senior Iranian lawmaker accused the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog on Sunday of passing confidential information about Iran’s nuclear activities to Israel.In the latest sign of strained relations with the IAEA, Javad Jahangirzadeh, a member of parliament’s ...

VIENNA - The UN nuclear agency said on Tuesday Iran must address concerns about its suspected atom bomb research, one day after Tehran alleged that “terrorists” had infiltrated the organisation to sabotage the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment plants.Britain added to the ...

VIENNA  - Iran’s nuclear chief said Monday that “explosives” were used last month in an attack aimed at cutting the power supply to an underground enrichment facility but that the plant suffered no damage.“On... 17th August 2012, the electric power lines from the city ...

VIENNA  - Iran should “understand the message” that it needs to do more to address global concerns that it wants the bomb, following the UN atomic agency’s latest board resolution, the watchdog’s chief told AFP.“I hope that Iran clearly understands the message and ...

VIENNA (AFP\Reuters) - The UN atomic agency's board approved with a crushing majority Thursday a resolution criticising Iran brought by world powers that was also aimed at dissuading Israel from military action, while South Africa proposed a last-minute change to the agency resolution rebuking ...

The United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged Iran to comply with UN resolutions demanding it curb its nuclear activities, warning that heightened international rhetoric over the issue risked degenerating into "war." He said Tehran should build confidence in its nuclear programme by ...

VIENNA (AFP) - Iran has “sanitised” to such an extent a military base where nuclear weapons research allegedly took place that the UN atomic watchdog may say next week there is now little point inspecting it, Western diplomats told AFP.The International Atomic Energy Agency has been ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) Amid Indias concerns over the China-Pakistan nuclear deal, the European Union on Wednesday said any such agreement should respect the guidelines spelt out by the world nuclear watchdog IAEA. The EU has no problems with peaceful use of nuclear energy. Whatever arrangements are ...

TOKYO (AFP/Reuters) - Irans parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani on Friday accused the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), of bending to pressure from the world powers. One of the defects in the IAEA is that it changes positions and attitudes if it is put under certain ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Irans envoy to the UN atomic watchdog dismissed on Friday as baseless a leaked report expressing concern that it might have been trying to develop a nuclear warhead, the Fars news agency reported. Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the documents cited in the report by the International Atomic ...

UNITED NATIONS - Asserting that its nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday that his country has declared all its atomic sites to the U.N. nuclear agency as he countered western claims that it may have undeclared facilities. "Whatever ...

VIENNA (AFP) - Veteran Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano won the contest on Thursday to head the International Atomic Energy Agency, giving him a pivotal role in dealing with Irans nuclear ambitions. Tokyos current envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog was chosen after six rounds of voting when he ...

VIENNA (AFP) - The UN atomic watchdog has not made any progress in its probe into the alleged illicit nuclear activities in Iran and Syria, a senior official close to the agency said Friday. On Iran, there has been very little progress, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. And ...

VIENNA (AFP) - UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged Iran on Monday to "unblock" a long-running nuclear standoff and expressed hope that a possible change in US policy towards Tehran may help break the deadlock. "I again urge Iran to implement all measures required to build confidence in ...

VIENNA (AFP) - The UN nuclear watchdog has shown its members documents and photographs suggesting that Iran secretly tried to modify a missile cone to carry a nuclear bomb, diplomats said. Diplomats who attended a special briefing Tuesday said the IAEA's head of inspections in the Middle East, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq on Friday commenting on IAEA report said that there was nothing new in the report. "It essentially summarises the results of IAEA verification activities in Libya and provides an overview of Libya's past nuclear programme," he said in a ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said on Wednesday that talks on its controversial nuclear drive with top UN atomic watchdog official Olli Heinonen were "positive" and would continue. "The negotiations held over the past three days were positive and will continue," said the deputy chief of Iran's atomic ...

Vienna  - A day before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors is scheduled to meet here to adopt a draft safeguards agreement for India, Pakistan is not saying whether it will abstain or ask for a vote when it comes up for approval. The 35-member board will meet at ...