Uranium

Araghchi slams US-Israeli Miriam Adelson, accusing her of dual loyalties in antisemitic trope

Iran's FM Abbas Araghchi criticizes Miriam Adelson's claims, calls for diplomacy in US-Iran talks, and warns of military retaliation if negotiations fail.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, February 7, 2026; illustrative.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Special Envoy and Jared Kushner at Blair House in Washington on February 10, 2026.

Netanyahu meets with Witkoff, Kushner ahead of discussion with Trump on 'principles' for Iran talks

Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), speaks at the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, September 15, 2025

Iran could dilute 60% enriched uranium if all US sanctions lifted, nuclear official says

Spokesperson of Russia's Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova attends the annual press conference held by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, January 14, 2025.

Russia says uranium proposal for Iran is still on the table


Iran claims to have 80% of uranium needed to build nuclear bomb

Iran claims 120 kg. jump in 20% enriched uranium. If true, the numbers could be considered a major jump forward in Iran's uranium enrichment efforts.

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi attend a news conference, in Tehran, Iran, September 12, 2021.

Do lost cameras mean disappearing uranium in Iran? - analysis

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said that some of the agency's monitoring cameras were mysteriously broken or damaged and some left unattended for months — was something missed during that time?

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in April 2008, shortly before its centrifuges were destroyed by the Stuxnet virus. Why is responsibility now being taken for attacks and involvement being admitted with bluster and bravado?

US, Iran, Israel nuke standoff, everyone blinks - now what? - analysis

Blinking from all sides over the last few weeks and even days has started to reshape the geopolitics surrounding the issue of the Iran nuclear deal talks.

The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, before the beginning of a board of governors meeting, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021.

Uranium cubes tested to see if they are from the Nazi era

Hundreds of uranium cubes were confiscated from the Nazis and then lost. Now, scientists are analyzing the remaining cubes to clarify their origin.

Dismantling the German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch, 50 km S.W of Stuttgart, April 1945

Iran says it can enrich uranium to 90% purity - weapons grade - if needed

Iran has been breaching the deal in several ways after the United States withdrew from the agreement in 2018, including by producing 20% and 60% enriched uranium.

A number of new generation Iranian centrifuges are seen on display during Iran's National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran

IAEA chief: Deeply concerned Iran hiding nuclear material

“After many months, Iran has not provided the necessary explanation for the presence of the nuclear material particles at the 3 locations where the Agency has conducted complementary accesses."

A view of the water nuclear reactor at Arak, Iran December 23, 2019. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

IAEA chief: Iran nuke ‘genie cannot be put back in bottle’

Warns breaking 60% enrichment line can't be undone

‘THERE IS less access, let’s face it.’ Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi ahead of a virtual IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna last year.

Iran Deal talks continue as its proxy Hamas bombs Israel

Israel opposes a return to the Iran deal, because it expires in 2030, giving Tehran the international legitimacy to develop a nuclear weapon, and it does not address funding for Hamas.

European External Action Service (EEAS) Deputy Secretary General Enrique Mora, Iranian Deputy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi and Iran's ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog Kazem Gharibabadi wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria May 1, 202

IAEA: Iran cuts number of centrifuges enriching uranium to 60% purity

Iran's move complicated the current indirect talks with the United States on rescuing its nuclear deal with major powers.

A view of the water nuclear reactor at Arak, Iran December 23, 2019. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Biden says Iranian enrichment to 60% unhelpful, but glad about talks

"We do not support and do not think it's at all helpful that Iran is saying it's going to move to enrich to 60 percent," Biden told reporters in Washington.

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, February 5, 2021.