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Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader told NBC News on Wednesday. Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is one of the most senior Iranian officials to speak publicly about the ongoing discussions. He said Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use,...

Washington - UN nuclear inspectors say Iran is pressing ahead on a larger scale than ever with the uranium enrichment activities that Western powers suspect are aimed at developing a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) made a short-notice inspection on Sunday of Iran's main nuclear facility in Natanz and found that all of its 1 300 centrifuges were up and running smoothly, producing nuclear fuel. The centrifuges "were producing fuel suitable for use in nuclear reactors", the US newspaper said, citing diplomats and nuclear experts in Vienna...

TEHRAN, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in Tehran Sunday he now understands Iran's position on its nuclear enrichment program. Annan, speaking to the reporters alongside Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, said he would explain his new understanding to the countries involved in discussions about Iran's nuclear ambitions, reported IRNA, Iran's official government-run news agency. Annan said good dialogue had already been established between Iran and the U.N. Security Council about the country's nuclear program. He said his meetings with Iranian officials would help push discussions forward

After months of stalling, the mad mullahs in Tehran agreed to suspend their nuclear enrichment program just in time to avoid being referred to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions by the International Atomic Energy Commission. The IAEA had been under considerable pressure from the United States to find Iran in breach of nuclear agreements prohibiting the nuclear enrichment process. Leader of the Axis of Evil