JERUSALEM—Israel on Thursday urged world powers to halt nuclear talks with Iran immediately, citing a U.N. watchdog’s announcement that Tehran has started producing enriched uranium with more advanced centrifuges. “Iran is carrying out nuclear blackmail as a negotiating tactic, and this should be answered by the immediate halt to negotiations and the implementation of tough…
Israel Calls on World Powers to Stop Iran Nuclear Talks Immediately
Iran Cannot Set New Conditions for Resuming Nuclear Talks: Germany
BERLIN—Germany would reject any Iranian demands for the United States to release frozen Iranian assets as a condition for nuclear talks to resume, Germany’s foreign ministry said on Monday. “If here new conditions are being set by Iran for talks to be resumed, then we reject that,” a German foreign ministry spokesman said after Iranian…
Taliban Government Behavior ‘Not Encouraging’, Says EU Foreign Policy Chief
RIYADH—The European Union foreign policy chief said on Sunday the Taliban government’s behavior up to now was “not very encouraging”, and any economic collapse in Afghanistan would raise the risk of terrorism and other threats. Josep Borrell, speaking at a joint news conference with his Saudi Arabian counterpart, also said he hoped nuclear talks between…
Top Nuclear Envoys Meet in Japan Over Arms Talks After North Korea’s Missile Test
Senior envoys from Japan, the United States, and South Korea met in Tokyo on Tuesday to discuss North Korea’s missile and nuclear development a day after Pyongyang tested a new long-range cruise missile. Analysts expressed concerns about the latest tests of a missile dubbed “a strategic weapon of great significance,” according to the country’s state-run Korean…
Top US Envoy Meets in Japan Over Arms Talks Following North Korea’s Missile Test
Senior envoys from Japan, the United States, and South Korea met in Tokyo on Tuesday to discuss North Korea’s missile and nuclear development a day after Pyongyang tested a new long-range cruise missile. Analysts expressed concerns about the latest tests of a missile dubbed “a strategic weapon of great significance,” according to the country’s state-run Korean…
Israeli PM Warns Against Nuclear Talks With Iran’s ‘Hangmen Regime’
JERUSALEM—Israel condemned on Sunday the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his would be a “regime of brutal hangmen” with which world powers should not negotiate a new nuclear deal. Raisi, who is under U.S. sanctions for human rights abuses, secured victory as expected on Saturday in Iran’s presidential election after…
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