Iran's president has ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities. State media online on Wednesday reported the decision by President Masoud Pezeshkian. It follows a law passed by Iran's parliament to suspend that cooperation. It wasn't immediately clear what that would mean for U.N. watchdog IAEA. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signaled in a CBS News interview that Tehran still would be willing to continue negotiations with the United States.

Iranian, Egyptian and U.N. leaders have met to discuss Iran's nuclear program after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran is increasing its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels. The confidential report emerged amid U.S.-Iran talks. The talks are aimed at attempting to limit Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting some of the crushing economic sanctions that the U.S. has imposed on Iran. The sanctions have strained relations for almost 50 years. Iran's foreign minister met Monday with Egypt's president and the International Atomic Energy Agency director. The IAEA chief says they hope the report would provide "an incentive for a peaceful solution."

A report by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog says Iran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions between Tehran and Washington rise after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump. The Associated Press has seen the report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The report says that as of Feb. 8, Iran has 605.8 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60%, up by more than 200 pounds since the IAEA's last report in November. That material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. The IAEA says it is a significant increase and of serious concern.

A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday's strike punched a hole in the shell and briefly started a fire. Kyiv blamed Russia, while the Kremlin denied it was responsible. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency said radiation levels at the shuttered plant in the Kyiv region have not increased. It said the strike did not breach the plant's inner containment shell. The IAEA did not attribute blame. Fighting around nuclear power plants has repeatedly raised fears of a nuclear catastrophe during three years of war. Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986.

Despite more than a year of warnings that critical Ukrainian nuclear energy infrastructure sites are vulnerable to potential Russian attacks, Ukraine's Energy Ministry has failed to act swiftly to protect them, government officials have told The Associated Press. Only in the fall, after Ukrainian intelligence agencies warned of potential strikes targeting nuclear transmission facilities, was action taken to begin building protection, the officials said — far too late in the event of an attack. Russia's renewed attacks this winter have heightened scrutiny over these failures. Two years of punishing Russian strikes on its power grid have left Ukraine reliant on nuclear power for more than half of its electricity generation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first visit to the border area where his forces launched their surprise offensive into Russia two weeks ago. During the visit on Thursday, he said Kyiv's military had taken control of another Russian village and captured more prisoners of war. While in the northern Sumy region, Zelenskyy said the new POWs from the Russian region of Kursk would help build an "exchange fund" to swap for captured Ukrainians. Zelenskyy did not name the newly captured village and did not cross over into Russia, which would been regarded by Moscow as a provocation.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Russia may eventually restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that it seized in southeastern Ukraine but shares the view of international monitors that it's not practical and possibly dangerous to do so now. International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said he gained an understanding of Russia's position during a meeting last week in Kaliningrad with Alexey Likhachev, the director-general of the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom. Grossi told reporters at a meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors in Vienna that Russia does "have the intention of using this plant" but that Moscow also recognizes "that at the moment this would be not practical and perhaps even dangerous."

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog agency urged Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday to establish a "nuclear safety and security protectio…

KYIV (AP) — A U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission Monday to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant…

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has continued to increase its stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear weapons in contravent…