Nuclear

Iran would require only weeks – not months – to “break out” from its current self-imposed 60% enrichment limit to the 90% plus needed for a bomb.

Soleimani was "a symbol and key figure in the fight against terrorists,” Masjedi said.

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

Aus den Akten geht hervor, dass Russland weiterhin in der Lage ist, Atomwaffen auf Überwasserschiffen zu transportieren, was das Risiko einer Eskalation oder gar eines Unfalls erhöht.

“The United States is committed to targeting Iran’s key revenue streams that fund its destabilizing activities,” Bradley Smith.

Photographs posted on Russian Telegram channels showed a shattered entrance to a building littered with rubble and two bodies lying in the blood-stained snow.

Israel can strike Iran in a "forceful and sophisticated manner. If needed, we will not hesitate to act," Gallant was cited as saying.

All of this makes the next six weeks until US Inauguration Day a wide-open playing field where getting closer to a mini-nuclear deal or to an escalating nuclear conflict are both possibilities.

France's intelligence head made rare comments on Iran's nuclear capabilities.

European and Iranian officials meet in Geneva to discuss nuclear program and regional tensions before Trump takes office in January.