Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media.
The deal agreed on Monday would oblige Iran to send Turkey 1.2 tonnes of uranium under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Turkey would give Iran 120kg [...]
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, is visiting Iran for a nuclear summit that may prove to be Tehran’s last chance to avoid new UN sanctions.
Lula said in Moscow before departing for Tehran that he was “optimistic” and hoped to be able to persuade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, to reach an agreement [...]
The Iranian president has criticised the United States for threatening to use nuclear weapons and dismissed claims that his country is trying to develop them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the opening session of a UN conference reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York on Monday that the US “has never respected any of its commitments” [...]
High-level representatives from the US and Iran are set to address a nuclear non-proliferation conference amid a deepening row over Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is the only head of state taking part in the UN nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, which will host delegations from 189 countries.
He will speak at [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is due to sign trade agreements with Zimbabwe during a visit to the country.
At a trade fair in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, on Friday, Ahmadinejad said that the level of trade between the two nations was not at full capacity and should improve.
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, [...]
Iran’s president has called for the formation of a new international body to oversee nuclear disarmament as the country opened a two-day summit on civilian nuclear energy in the capital, Tehran.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the call on Saturday at a summit seen as a counterpoint to a major conference in Washington earlier this week, in which [...]