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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 18, 2019
Hopes low for Japan-Iran summit, with Tokyo hemmed in by competing interests
It's unlikely Japan will be able to bypass U.S.-imposed sanctions and resume importing crude oil from Iran in accordance with Tehran's apparent wishes, experts say.
WORLD
Sep 27, 2019
Iran expands enrichment with advanced centrifuges in new breach of nuclear deal, IAEA reports
Iran has committed a further breach of its nuclear deal with major powers by enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges, and plans to install more of those advanced machines than previously announced, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report showed on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2019
IAEA found uranium traces at Iran 'secret atomic warehouse,' diplomats say
Samples taken by the U.N. nuclear watchdog at what Israel's prime minister called a "secret atomic warehouse" in Tehran showed traces of uranium that Iran has yet to explain, two diplomats who follow the agency's inspections work closely say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 11, 2019
Iran has accelerated enrichment of uranium, IAEA says
Iran has followed through on a threat to accelerate its production of enriched uranium, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Monday, departing from his usual guarded language to say he was worried about increasing tension.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 22, 2018
U.N. watchdog says no signs North Korea has halted nuclear activities
The United Nations' atomic watchdog has said it has not seen any signs that North Korea has halted its nuclear activities — including those at secret sites — despite its vows to work toward denuclearization at a landmark summit with the U.S. in June.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 5, 2018
Iran to inform IAEA of start of process to boost uranium enrichment capacity
Iran will inform the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna on Tuesday over its start of a process to increase the country's uranium enrichment capacity, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told ISNA news agency.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 12, 2018
U.N. nuclear watchdog's inspections chief quits, days after Trump pulls U.S. out of Iran nuclear deal
The chief of inspections at the U.N. nuclear watchdog has resigned suddenly, the agency said Friday without giving a reason.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2017
IAEA board backs incumbent Amano for a third term
The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors on Wednesday backed the agency's chief, Yukiya Amano, for a third term as director general after he ran unopposed on a platform of continuity in dealing with issues like Iran's nuclear programme.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 2, 2016
IAEA says Iran is obeying nuclear deal
Iran has kept to the nuclear deal it agreed on with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told the French daily Le Monde.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 7, 2016
North Korea apparently reopened plant to produce plutonium, IAEA says
North Korea appears to have reopened a plant to produce plutonium from spent fuel of a reactor central to its atomic weapons drive, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday, suggesting the country's arms effort is widening.

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