Nuclear energy in Iran

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on April 19 the United States had created the "myth" of nuclear weapons to portray Iran as a threat, hardening his rhetoric before nuclear negotiations resume this week. 

Major world powers and Iran will hold fresh talks in Vienna on April 22-23 to build on the framework accord reached on Tehran's contested nuclear programme, the EU announced April 16.
      
The two sides "will continue work towards a comprehensive solution to the Iranian nuclear issue based on the key understandings reached in Switzerland on April 2," a statement said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry on April 15 welcomed a compromise with Congress on giving lawmakers a say on any final deal on Iran's nuclear programme.

Kerry said the measure approved April 14 by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which raises the threshold for critics in Congress to block any accord with Tehran, made him "confident" ahead of a June 30 deadline.    

Israel is pleased at a compromise deal achieved between the United States Congress and the administration of President Barack Obama, Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said on April 15.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told skeptical Republicans and Democrats on April 13 that the U.S. Congress should give him another two and a half months to secure a final nuclear deal with Iran. 

The move by Moscow to lift an embargo on supplying Iran with S-300 air defense missile systems is "unhelpful", a Pentagon official has said.

On Sunday Russia announced it would renounce a ban on selling the equipment to Iran after substantial progress was marked in talks of world powers with Iran over the country's controversial nuclear program earlier in April.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his criticisms on the agreement reached over the Iranian nuclear program, which he characterized as the most dangerous country on Earth.

Israel is the fiercest combatant of the deal reached on April 2nd in Lausanne between Iran and the US,France,UK, China, Russia and Germany.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept up his assault on the framework nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, warning late April 11 that the Islamic republic could not be trusted.        

A framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be reached by the end of June, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said April 9.

Iran will agree to a final nuclear accord with six major powers only if all sanctions imposed on the country over its disputed nuclear work are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on April 9. 

"We will not sign any deal unless all sanctions are lifted on the same day ... We want a win-win deal for all parties involved in the nuclear talks," Rouhani said.