DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has presented its own "comprehensive" package of proposals to six world powers during talks between the two sides over its disputed nuclear program, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. "In this session of negotiations, Iran presented to the P5+1 a package comprising five points that include a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For decades, Western navies have built ever larger, more expensive warships. Those vessels now look increasingly vulnerable to thousands of small, fast Iranian attack boats that could dominate the Gulf in the event conflict there. In response, the U.S. ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran appears ready for serious discussion of concrete steps to resolve the international standoff over its nuclear programme, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. Speaking in Moscow shortly before talks between Iran and six global powers were to start in Baghdad, Lavrov also said that ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British government ministers are discussing what role the country could play in a possible military confrontation in the Middle East over Iran's nuclear programme, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Ministers are considering whether any involvement from Britain would be legal if talks with Iran break down and ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Wednesday that any efforts by Western powers to put pressure on Iran at talks in Baghdad over its nuclear programme would be futile. "Their policies of pressure and intimidation are futile. They have to adopt policies to show goodwill ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel expressed deep suspicion on Tuesday about an expected deal between the U.N. nuclear agency and Iran, suggesting Tehran's aim was to wriggle out of sanctions rather than make real concessions ahead of wider atomic talks with world powers. "Iran has proven over the years its lack ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it had delivered two batches of domestically made nuclear fuel to a research reactor in an apparent attempt to trumpet nuclear advances before negotiations with six world powers on Wednesday. If confirmed, Iran's ability to run the reactor with its own fuel could ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel eyed with suspicion on Tuesday an expected deal between the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran on investigating Tehran's nuclear activity, citing an Iranian track record of evading and limiting international inspections. "Iran has proven over the years its lack of credibility, its dishonesty -- telling the ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran must cooperate urgently with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in its investigation into Tehran's atomic activities, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. Robert Wood, the acting U.S. envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made the statement shortly after the agency said it expected to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate unanimously approved on Monday a package of new economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector just days ahead of a meeting in Baghdad between major world powers and Tehran. The sanctions add to a raft of punitive measures by the United States and the European ...