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As Deadline Looms for Iran Nuclear Deal,
Kerry Says Talks Could Go Either Way
Elise Labott and Jethro Mullen, CNN
July 6, 2015
"We have difficult issues to resolve," Kerry told reporters in Vienna on Sunday. He said that while negotiators have made progress, major points of contention remained.
Kerry was negotiating with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif through the weekend in an effort to reach an agreement by Tuesday. The result of the talks this week -- the culmination of years of diplomacy -- could define relations between Iran and the West for years to come, as well as influencing the future of the Middle East.
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With talks in the final stretch, Iran's president Hassan Rouhani also spoke out, saying his country would resume suspended atomic work if the West breaks its promises.
Iran and six world powers are working towards an accord that would see Tehran halt sensitive nuclear work for at least a decade in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, potentially the biggest breakthrough in decades of hostility between Washington and Tehran.
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Nuclear Issue Not Real Purpose of Anti-Iran Sanctions: Leader
Tasnim News Agency
July 5, 2015
"The enemies' purpose in imposing sanctions is not the nuclear issue or subjects such as human rights and terrorism, since they themselves are hubs of fostering terrorism and are against human rights, but their objective is to prevent Iranian nation from reaching the proper civilizational position," Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said in a gathering of Iranian university professors in Tehran on Saturday evening.
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Evaluating a Nuclear Deal with Iran
A nuclear weapons-capable Islamic Republic of Iran," the Bipartisan Policy Center's Iran Task Force argued six years ago, "is strategically untenable." With the Middle East gripped by instability and seemingly poised on the brink of regional sectarian conflict, that assessment holds even more truth today. After more than a decade of intermittent and unsuccessful negotiations on the future of Iran's nuclear program, the Joint Plan of Action (JPA)-a six-month-long confidence-building agreement signed by Iran and six world powers in Geneva in November 2013-has provided the best opportunity to date for preventing this untenable scenario peacefully and diplomatically.
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Interview: Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Ravanchi
Ariane Tabatabai, The Bulletin
June 30, 2015
The P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany) and Iran are working around the clock to strike a nuclear deal that would curb Tehran's nuclear activities and provide assurance of their peaceful nature, while granting Iran relief from international economic sanctions.
Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Ravanchi was asked about the state of play in the negotiations and the stumbling blocks on the path toward a final deal. The deputy foreign minister also shed some light on domestic aspects of the Iranian nuclear negotiations.
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ISODARCO Winter Course on
Nuclear Governance in a Changing World
Andalo, Italy, 7-14 January 2016
More information, including instructions on how to apply at http://www.isodarco.it/ Applicants who require a visa should apply by 12 October 2015. All other applicants should apply by 9 November 2015.
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Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2015
Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
China is the only one of the five original nuclear weapon states that is quantitatively increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal and it now is estimated to have approximately 260 warheads. The arsenal's capabilities are also increasing as older missiles are replaced with newer ones. As China assigns a growing portion of its warheads to long-range missiles, the US intelligence community predicts that by the mid-2020s the number of warheads on missiles capable of threatening the United States could increase to well over 100.
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How World War III Became Possible
Fearing the worst of one another, the US and Russia have pledged to go to war, if necessary, to defend their interests in the Eastern European borderlands. They have positioned military forces and conducted chest-thumping exercises, hoping to scare one another down. Putin, warning repeatedly that he would use nuclear weapons in a conflict, began forward-deploying nuclear-capable missiles and bombers.
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