Read detail news VIENNA — Diplomats say Iran is poised for a major expansion of its nuclear program at a cavernous underground site. They have told The Associated Press that Tehran has readied the site for the installation of thousands of new-generation centrifuges. These machines could greatly speed up production of material that can be turned into the core of nuclear warheads. The diplomats [...]

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Read detail news That is the assessment of American defense officials and military analysts close to the Pentagon, who say that an Israeli attack meant to set back Iran’s nuclear program would be a huge and highly complex operation. They describe it as far different from Israel’s “surgical” strikes on a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007 and Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981. [...]

Read detail news JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel will ultimately decree on an Iranian strike on its own, its military chief of staff said in an interview broadcast on Saturday, as a senior United States official arrived for talks on the Islamic Republic. ‘Israel is the central guarantor of its own security; this is our role as army, the State [...]

Read detail news Iran’s nuclear ambitions could plunge the world into “a new Cold War” with the Middle East, Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned. He predicted a nuclear arms race among rival Middle Eastern states that would carry the dangers without the safety mechanisms of the old rivalry between the West and the USSR. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he [...]

Read detail news FILE – The Feb. 20, 2011 file photo provided by German ‘Bild’ newspaper shows journalist Marcus Hellwig, left, and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle inside a German government aircraft as they arrive at Tegel airport in Berlin. When German reporter Marcus Hellwig was [...]

Read detail news Britain and France depend little on Iranian oil, however, so their targeting may be a mostly symbolic act, a function of the strong positions the two nations have taken in trying to halt Iranian nuclear enrichment and to bring pressure to bear on Syria, one of Iran’s closest allies. Iran may also be reluctant, when its economy has been damaged by existing sanctions, [...]

Read detail news LONDON—An attack on Iran would carry huge costs, Britain’s foreign minister warned Saturday. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a newspaper interview that while Iran’s suspected drive for atomic weapons could lead to a dangerous nuclear standoff in the Middle East, he favored more time to let diplomacy and economic pressure run its course. Hague [...]

Read detail news IRAN’S nuclear ambitions could trigger “a new Cold War” more perilous than that between the West and the Soviet Union, British Foreign Secretary warned. William Hague said Iran obtaining a nuclear bomb would spark an atomic arms race between rival Middle Eastern nations that could be more dangerous than the original Cold War because [...]

Read detail news BRUSSELS—A financial clearinghouse used by virtually every country and major corporation in the world agreed Friday to shut out Iran from its respected network, an unprecedented escalation of global economic pressure to halt Iran’s suspected drive for nuclear weapons. Quicker than a succession of slow-acting economic sanctions, expelling Iran from the banking hub [...]