The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill to allow Congress to review and potentially reject an international nuclear agreement with Iran.
Iran will never accept "unusual" inspections into its nuclear establishments pursuant to a potential nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said here on Wednesday.
Iran's leaders questioned on Thursday the hard-won framework agreement on the country's nuclear program and said they would not sign a final deal if sanctions were not lifted.
The ongoing round of talks on Iran' s nuclear program in the Swiss town of Lausanne will most likely end with positive broad consensus, though a concrete formal deal remains hard to reach, analysts have said.
As the March 31 deadline approaches, delegates from the P5+1 countries and Iran on Sunday continued their intensive negotiations to reach an understanding which could pave way for the final resolution of the long disputed Iranian nuclear issue.
A new round of Iranian nuclear talks resumed on Thursday here as top U.S. and Iran diplomats came back to the negotiating table, hopefully for the home stretch.
Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner said Tuesday that he was "shocked" and "baffled" to learn of Israel's act of spying on the nuclear talks with Iran and sharing the information with some American lawmakers with a view to undermining the diplomacy.
U.S.-Israel relations are likely to remain strained after Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral win this week, as the Israeli leader and the White House have butted heads for several years now, U.S. experts said.
A fresh round of talks over Iran's long-disputed nuclear program will resume Sunday evening in Lausanne of Switzerland, which will participated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, as well as diplomats from other world major countries.
The United States on Monday reiterated a call asking for Iran's help in finding a retired agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and raised the bounty for his whereabouts.
The recent letter by a group of U.S. Republican senators about a possible deal concerning Iran's nuclear issue has "no legal value," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency Monday.
Iran is seeking a kind of agreement in nuclear talks which will meet the interests of all the parties concerned, Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali- Akbar Salehi, was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency on Sunday.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani dismissed on Wednesday the remarks by Israeli prime minister about a potential agreement, saying that his country is ready to show further transparency concerning its nuclear program.
The next round of ministerial level U.S.-Iran nuclear talks will resume on March 15, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said after a three-day discussion with his Iranian counterpart in the Swiss lakeside resort town of Montreux Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in U.S. Congress Tuesday on a potential agreement on Iran's nuclear issue was a "show full of deception," Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for rejection of a bad nuclear deal with Iran, insisting such an accord would allow the Islamic republic to develop nuclear bombs.
An aide to U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday called on Congress not to impose new sanctions on Iran, warning that such a move could derail ongoing talks on Tehran's nuclear program.
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