World Powers Look for Rigid Restrictions on Iran's Centrifuge Development in Talks
Barak Ravid | Haaretz
The six world powers negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran want the agreement to include rigid restrictions on Iran’s research and development work on advanced centrifuges, both during the agreement’s first 10 years and for some years thereafter, a senior German official familiar with the talks told Haaretz.
U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Says Can Push for Access to Iran Military Sites
Reuters
"In many other countries from time to time we request access to military sites when we have the reason to, so why not Iran?" Yukiya Amano, the director general of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency was quoted as saying by AP.
Saudi Arabia Promises to Match Iran in Nuclear Capability
David E. Sanger | New York Times
As President Obama gathered Arab leaders over dinner at the White House on Wednesday and prepared to meet with them at Camp David on Thursday, he faced a perverse consequence: Saudi Arabia and many of the smaller Arab states are now vowing to match whatever nuclear enrichment capability Iran is permitted to retain.
Renew China Nuclear Deal: U.S. Officials
Chen Weihua | China Daily
Li Bin, a senior associate of Nuclear Policy Program & Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, believes the benefits of the agreement for China is that it symbolizes the spirits of stability and cooperation in the overall US-China relations.
Shika Nuclear Plant May be Sitting on Active Seismic Fault: NRA Panel
Japan Times
The news that a nuclear plant on the Sea of Japan coast may have been built on at least one active seismic fault line has cast doubt on whether the plant in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, will ever be restarted.
Modi in China: The Nuclear Dimension
C Raja Mohan | Indian Express
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Chinese interlocutors unveil this week a political agreement to launch substantive civil nuclear energy cooperation, they could help reduce the negative salience of the atomic question in bilateral relations.