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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning Iran for banning nuclear inspectors and calling on the Iranian government to cooperate more fully with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

A confidential IAEA report found that Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium reached 30 times the limit of the 2015 nuclear deal.

The interim president of Iran, Mohammad Mokhber, appointed top nuclear deal negotiator Ali Baqeri-Kani as the nation’s “caretaker” foreign minister following the death this week of predecessor Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) offered to share the nation’s nuclear “expertise” with any country seeking to develop a nuclear program on Wednesday, the latest in a string of provocative comments by Iranian officials, including one claiming Tehran already has a nuclear bomb.

Iranian member of Parliament Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani said in an interview this weekend that he believed his country had successfully developed a nuclear weapon, contrary to international law, but would not admit to it.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made some encouraging comments about Iran’s nuclear program during a visit to Tehran on Monday – but as soon as Grossi left, he complained that Iran’s level of cooperation with U.N. nuclear inspectors is “completely unsatisfactory.”

Military is to respond to “inflammatory statements… by some Western officials” by drilling with tactical nuclear weapons, Moscow said. 

Russia on Wednesday used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to block a resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan to ban nuclear weapons in outer space.

Poland is in talks with the United States about hosting nuclear weapons and has been for some time, the country’s President has said.

North Korea’s flagship state propaganda arm claimed in a report on Tuesday that communist dictator Kim Jong-un personally led what it called a “combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear counterattack.”

Russian again threatens nuclear war, but Putin moderates remarks by saying he believes the United States will exercise “restraint”. 

A leader within Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate is accused of trafficking nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.

A British-launched nuclear missile test in the presence of the head of the Navy and the Defence Minister splashed back into the sea.

Top Putin Ally warns West off a Ukrainian victory, warning that would lead to nuclear strikes on “Kiev, Berlin, London, Washington”.

European Union may need to develop its own nuclear deterrent “on the way to a European army” a top German MEP says.

Some fake eyelashes shipped in “Made in China” packaging may actually be made in North Korea, bypassing sanctions.

Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Vice President Mohammad Eslami announced on Monday that construction has begun on a fourth nuclear reactor in the city of Isfahan.

The United States is reportedly planning on stationing nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom amid escalating tensions with Russia.

Kim Jong-un complained that the state of North Korea’s economy is “very pitiful” and has become a “serious political problem.”

North Korea announced on Friday that it tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone that could theoretically wipe out port cities.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that Iran stymied nuclear inspectors as it stockpiled uranium.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un declared South Korea should be named “primary foe and invariable principal enemy.”

Communist dictator Kim Jong-un celebrated “eye-opening victories and events achieved in all fields for socialist construction” throughout 2023 at the opening of an end-of-year meeting of regime elites on Tuesday in Pyongyang.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Tuesday that Iran had tripled its production of uranium enriched to 60 percent.

The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog warned that it has evidence that North Korea is operating a reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex.

Communist dictator of North Korea Kim Jong-un declared through state media on Wednesday that the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was necessary to “clearly show what action the DPRK [North Korea] has been prepared and what option the DPRK would take when Washington makes a wrong decision against it.”

The South Korean military confirmed the firing of a long-range missile from North Korea on Monday morning as Pyongyang announced that one of its top diplomats held a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to cement their close alliance.

Global security picture including nuclear, chemical, and biological war is worsening and this is all America’s fault, Russia claims.

Russia reported a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a nuclear submarine.

Ali Baqeri, the lead Iranian negotiator on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, announced on Wednesday that U.N. restrictions on Iran’s missile program have lapsed.

As warnings of possible Islamic terrorist attacks within the U.S. intensify, a resurfaced clip shows hundreds of American children from the heart of Texas chanting references to Iran’s supreme leader and pledging allegiance to him, while praising martyrdom.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kana’ani told reporters on Monday that his regime is ready to “resume negotiations” with the United States if President Joe Biden returns to the 2015 nuclear deal signed by predecessor Barack Obama.

North Korea adopted an amendment to its Constitution that formally declared the country a “responsible nuclear weapons state” in an attempt to make its illegal nuclear program permanent, state media announced on Thursday.

North Korea’s ambassador to the U.N. blames U.S. “hysteria” for driving the Korean Peninsula to “the brink of nuclear war.”

The U.S. and Israel could help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium as part of an agreement to achieve peace and normalize relations between the Jewish state and the leading Sunni Arab state.

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said talks with China to build a new nuclear plant would be completed “in a few months’ time.”