Reuters - Iran may be interested in joining a key nuclear treaty if the United States withdraws its threat to rip up an existing deal on Tehrans nuclear ambitions, the head of the CTBTO nuclear watchdog said on Monday. Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, was speaking on the sidelines of a ...

Press TV- ParliamentSpeaker Ali Larijani says Iran expects to benefit from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for which it haspaid high costs or it would rethink dealing with the 2015nuclear accord. Iran is on the lookout for the ramifications of US President Donald Trump's bellicose speech on Friday, in which he refused to certify ...

A senior UN official says Israel, which is widely believed to possess hundreds of atomic bombs, should ratify the nuclear test ban treaty within five years. I'm putting five years as the longest it should take now based on the positive sign that I'm seeing from Israel, Lassina Zerbo, the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-...

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty by which states agree to ban all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996 but has not entered into force as eight specific states have not ratified the treaty yet. The ...