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File photo—This Tuesday, November 26, 2013 photo shows buildings destroyed in the Bab Al-Aziziya compound and an occupied intact building in Tripoli, Libya—the area where the home of dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his main military barracks were once situated. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

UN to inspect Libya’s uranium stocks amid worsening stability

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 9, 2013 | Middle East

United Nations, Reuters—A UN nuclear team will visit Libya this month to assess the safety of thousands of barrels of milled uranium—known as yellowcake—amid concerns about the country’s deteriorating security situation, a UN official said on Monday. “With...

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A picture taken on February 3, 2007 shows an Iranian technician working at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities, 260 miles (420 kilometers) south of Tehran. (AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI)

Media controversy over Iran’s nuclear ambitions touches Zimbawe

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 11, 2013 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Zimbabwe’s deputy minister of mines, Gift Chimanikire, has denied media reports that his government has signed an agreement allowing uranium experts to Iran in comments to the the Bloomberg news agency. On Friday, some Western and Israeli...

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In this Monday, May 5, 2008 file photo Russian army S-300 air defense missiles move during a final rehearsal of Victory Day parade at Red Square, with St. Basil Cathedral, right in the background, in Moscow. Source: AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev

Russia’s Putin to visit Tehran for nuclear talks—media reports

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 24, 2013 | World

Moscow, Reuters—Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet Iran’s newly elected president in Tehran next month to discuss restarting talks on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, Russian and Iranian media reports said on Wednesday. The Russian newspaper...

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Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov (R) shows the way to Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, before the talks with world powers representatives on Iran’s nuclear program in the Kazakh city of Almaty on February 26, 2013. (STANISLAV FILIPPOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Small Steps Forward

by David Patrikarakos | Mar 13, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

As the jewel in a rather unpleasant dictatorship’s crown, Almaty was perhaps a strange choice of venue for the latest round of nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran two weeks ago. Nonetheless, reaction coming out of the talks—the first time Iran had met with the...