Iranian hardliners spent the day before President Masoud Pezeshkian left for the UN General Assembly talking publicly about nuclear weapons, leaving the treaty that restrains them, and preparing for a long war with the United States.
Iran is rapidly reconstructing a heavily fortified facility at the Parchin military complex that was previously linked to nuclear weapons research and has been struck twice since 2024, new satellite imagery analyzed by a Washington-based nuclear watchdog shows.
Calls for Iran to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are gaining ground among hardliners after the IAEA referred the country to the UN Security Council and its nuclear chief was barred from attending the agency’s annual conference in Vienna.
Concern over Iran’s nuclear program intensified on Monday as the UN nuclear watchdog said it had conducted almost no inspections in the country for more than six months, while tensions surrounding Hormuz deepened and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claimed another attack on Saudi.
The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors voted Wednesday to report Iran to the Security Council over breaches of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations, escalating a two-decade nuclear dispute amid an ongoing war and renewed Western pressure on Tehran.
Construction activity has surged at a deeply buried complex near Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, but satellite evidence suggests the site may not yet be capable of uranium enrichment, according to a new analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Britain said on Tuesday it was expanding sanctions on Iran, targeting key sectors including energy, metals, banking, insurance and shipping as part of efforts to restrict Tehran's nuclear program and other hostile activity.
Canada’s Federal Court has ordered the government to decide within 60 days on a visitor visa application from a former project manager at Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant after the case remained in security screening for more than 900 days.
Donald Trump said again on Friday that the United States may soon strike Pickaxe Mountain, the underground complex near Natanz that is the last significant site linked to Iran's nuclear program still untouched after two wars.
Iranians are victims of decisions made by their own authorities and of repeated episodes of mass repression, Jérôme Bonnafont, France’s UN ambassador and president of the Security Council for September, said as he outlined the council’s Iran agenda.
The UN nuclear watchdog says it remains unable to determine the status of Iran’s fourth declared uranium-enrichment facility after Tehran failed to provide information or allow inspectors access to the site.
A dispute over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has escalated into a broader political fight after President Masoud Pezeshkian’s son and adviser Yusef Pezeshkian defended remarks questioning whether enrichment is worth its costs during wartime.
Iran’s top security official has suggested Tehran could reconsider its longstanding rejection of nuclear weapons, arguing that US attacks on Iran have strengthened the case for acquiring an atomic bomb as a deterrent.
Washington likely underestimated Iran’s ability to withstand the initial US-Israeli strikes, making a negotiated settlement harder to achieve and deepening mistrust, foreign-policy expert Paul Saunders told Iran International.
The Trump administration on Friday outlined military and financial measures against Tehran alongside negotiations that President Donald Trump said were being undermined by Iran’s conduct.
If President Donald Trump expands US strikes on Iran, Washington could target several remaining nuclear facilities beyond Pickaxe Mountain, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing former officials and nuclear experts.
President Donald Trump’s threat to strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear-linked facility has intensified hardline calls for Tehran to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and develop a nuclear weapon.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran was “a head for an eye,” warning Tehran it would pay a heavy price for attacks on Americans and US interests.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that Iran was under severe economic and military pressure but the United States would continue targeting its ability to attack commercial shipping while remaining open to a negotiated solution.
President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, but experts say the deeply buried nuclear facility, potentially central to Tehran’s efforts to restore enrichment, may be far harder to disable than his warning suggests.
The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) said Monday that Iranian nationals are not barred from attending its 2026 congress, clarifying that restrictions apply only to invitation letters issued in support of visa applications.
President Donald Trump’s tougher rhetoric toward Iran and renewed US strikes have stirred mixed reactions among Iranians, from hopes for political change to fears of another long and unresolved conflict after months of living between war and peace.