The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Centre.
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The two Oxford University archaeologists often found they worked better after hours, once the office had emptied and with no phone calls or emails to distract them.
Both specialists in the Middle East, the pair were two years into a project involving satellite imagery of Israel and the West Bank when they noticed something odd. From the start, we knew that there was a problem, Fradley said.
They were trying to access photos taken over Israel but noticed they were all blurry, and not high enough quality to make out any of the details on the ground they were looking for.
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Talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal moved forward in Vienna on Tuesday with diplomats preparing to draw up “concrete measures” the US and Iran could take.
The EU said a meeting between Iran and the remaining parties to the deal – Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – had been “constructive” and ended with “unity and ambition” towards salvaging the agreement.
A US delegation was based at another hotel in the Austrian capital, with European diplomats acting as mediators between Washington and Tehran.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iran welcomed “promising” signs that Joe Biden’s administration was willing to lift sanctions reimposed by Donald Trump in 2018.
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US To Join Talks Aimed At Salvaging Iran Nuclear Deal By Julia ZAPPEI
04/06/21 AT 6:23 AM
The United States is set to start talks with EU negotiators on Tuesday in Austria s capital Vienna aimed at salvaging an international agreement on Iran s nuclear programme, which Washington withdrew from in 2018.
US President Joe Biden has said he is ready to reverse the decision of his predecessor Donald Trump and return to the 2015 agreement, which was supposed to ensure that Iran never developed a military nuclear programme.
But Iran is demanding an end to crippling sanctions imposed by Trump and has refused to meet US negotiators at the latest talks, meaning European players will act as intermediaries.
U.S. begins indirect talks with Iran Tuesday on reentering nuclear deal Karen DeYoung U.S. negotiators, headed by special envoy Robert Malley, will begin indirect talks with Iran Tuesday that the Biden administration hopes will reestablish restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of U.S. sanctions. “The primary issues to be discussed are actually quite simple,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters Monday. “They are, on the one hand, the nuclear steps that Iran would need to take” to return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord, “and the sanctions relief steps that the United States would need to take.”