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US-Israel divisions over Iran boil over
Israel is sounding increasingly agitated over what it views as American dithering with economic sanctions too weak to force Iran to end its suspected ...
Obama and Romney: Where they stand on the issues
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues: ABORTION and BIRTH ...
Israeli official: US resisting on Iran ultimatum
An Israeli official said Monday that Washington's refusal to issue an ultimatum to Iran over its nuclear program brings Tehran closer to producing an ...
Hiroshima survivors in Israel, hold nuke protest
A group of survivors from the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack have held a protest in Jerusalem calling for the end of nuclear weapons. The group visited ...
UN nuke chief: access to Iran site necessary now
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency made an unusually strong demand Monday for Iran to cooperate with an investigation into suspected secret work on ...
US senators urge tougher stand on Syria, Iran
U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham on Friday urged Washington to help arm Syria's rebels with weapons and create a safe zone ...
Canada closes Tehran embassy, kicks out diplomats
Canada shut its embassy in Tehran on Friday, severed diplomatic relations and ordered Iranian diplomats to leave, accusing the Islamic Republic of ...
Iran denies alleged nuclear work at suspect site
An Iranian envoy is denying allegations that Tehran worked on developing nuclear arms at a military facility and then covered up the site to hide ...
Israel tries to ease differences with US over Iran
Israeli officials said Tuesday they are in close discussions with the United States over how to deal with the Iranian nuclear program, seeking to ease ...
AP analysis: Iran may be pushing to nuke threshold
A "big and unforgivable" sin. A Western falsehood. An attempt to deprive developing nations of peaceful nuclear technology. That's how Iran's supreme ...
Israelis say UN report strengthens Iran warnings
Israeli officials said on Friday that a new United Nations report adds credibility to their warnings about Iran, as tensions grow between the Jewish ...
UN nuke agency: Iran 'significantly' hampers probe
Iran has effectively shut down a probe of a site suspected of being used for work on nuclear weapons development while doubling the number of machines ...
UN chief hits host Iran over human rights
The U.N. chief jolted his Iranian hosts for a nonaligned nations meeting Wednesday by pointing out "serious concerns" in Tehran's human rights record ...
Lugar, Nunn honored for nuclear security efforts
U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn were honored Wednesday for their role in helping ex-Soviet states secure and dismantle huge stocks ...
Notorious Pakistan A-bomb scientist tries politics
The man who made Pakistan into a nuclear power and later admitted to leaking atomic secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya is going into politics, ...
Israel calls Iran the greatest nuclear threat
Muslim nations and Israel are heading for a confrontation at a 154-nation nuclear meeting next month over an Arab initiative to criticize Israel's ...
Iran opens nonaligned summit with nuclear appeals
Iran opened a world gathering of self-described nonaligned nations Sunday with a slap at the U.N. Security Council and an appeal to rid the world of ...
Diplomats: Iran shrouds suspected nuclear site
Iran has shrouded a building that the U.N. nuclear agency suspects was used for secret work on atomic weapons, meaning spy satellites can no longer ...
Nuke agency forms special Iran team
The U.N. nuclear agency is forming a special Iran team, drawing together sleuths in weapons technology, intelligence analysis, radiation and other ...
Activists question plan to ship plutonium to NM
Nuclear watchdogs are fighting a proposal to ship tons of plutonium to New Mexico, including the cores of nuclear warheads that would be dismantled ...
IAEA tries again to access suspect Iran nuke site
Iran is in the final stages of sanitizing a military site it is suspected of using for secret nuclear weapons-related experiments, two senior ...
Iran: Israel's existence 'insult to all humanity'
Israel's existence is an "insult to all humanity," Iran's president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel ...
Taliban carry out brazen attack on Pakistan base
Heavily armed Taliban fighters blasted their way into a Pakistani air force base with possible links to the country's nuclear program in a brazen ...
Israel plunged into unprecedented debate about war
To attack or not to attack? With Israeli politicians warning repeatedly that Iran is secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, this question has spawned an ...