EU ready for tougher action on Iran nukes-diplomats
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European countries trying to persuade Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment programme are losing patience with Tehran and may soon be ready to support US demands for tougher action, diplomats say.
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BRUSSELS : Key European governments turned up the pressure on Iran over its nuclear plans, giving Tehran a November deadline to allay concern it is secretly making atomic weapons.
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Key European governments turned up the pressure on Iran over its nuclear plans, giving Tehran a November deadline to allay concern it is secretly making atomic weapons.
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Western diplomats said on Saturday they remained hopeful the European Union and Iran would reach a final accord on freezing key parts of Tehran's nuclear program, despite fresh remarks by Iran's foreign minister.
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Iran has given a response to EU pressure for it to suspend uranium enrichment, the French foreign ministry said.
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Iran&#39;s nuclear behavior poses a serious  concern it might gain the ability to build atom bombs, the U.N.  atomic watchdog agency said on Monday as Tehran and the EU  resumed talks but dampened expectations of a breakthrough.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Germany urged the United States  on Saturday to back EU diplomacy on Iran to stop it acquiring  nuclear weapons, while Tehran expressed optimism about reaching  a deal with the Europeans.
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Britain, France and Germany are ready to set a November deadline for Iran to ally suspicions it is secretly making nuclear weapons, in a UN draft resolution that brings the three countries closer to the US hard line, diplomats said.
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MOSCOW - Russia said yesterday that it would oppose tougher sanctions on Iran for the time being and accused the United States and the European Union of undermining efforts to resolve diplomatically the crisis over Tehran's nuclear program.
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The United States, Australia and Canada have presented key EU states with a softened version of an ultimatum over Iran&#39;s alleged nuclear weapons program.
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Major powers want results on the   nuclear dispute with Iran by the beginning of October, European   diplomats said on Wednesday.
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Britain, France and Germany are ready to set a November deadline for Iran to ally suspicions it is secretly making nuclear weapons, in a UN draft resolution that brings the Euro 3 closer to the US hard line, diplomats said Saturday.
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European Union foreign ministers want more dialogue with Iran rather than immediate sanctions after Tehran defied a U.N. deadline to stop sensitive nuclear work, officials said on Friday.
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LONDON -- US and European diplomats prepared yesterday to consider possible new sanctions in the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, even as Iran's top nuclear negotiator again signaled that Tehran would be willing to engage in "constructive and logical" negotiations with the United States.
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European countries trying to persuade Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program are losing patience with Tehran and may soon be ready to support U.S. demands for tougher action, diplomats say.
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The United States said on Friday it was   consulting European governments about possible sanctions   against Iran for intransigence over its nuclear program, but   the EU signaled it wanted to see more dialogue with Tehran.
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"Next week in New York there will be discussions to try to have a resolution. If in the framework of the U.N. things are not sufficient, we will act in the European framework."  France's foreign minister appeared Tuesday to soften his weekend warning of war with Iran if it develops nuclear weapons, emphasizing instead the need to 'negotiate, negotiate, negotiate without respite.'Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also had said that European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt the enrichment of uranium in its nuclear program.Kouchner, who is on his first trip to Moscow as France's top diplomat, on Sunday said 'we must prepare ourselves for the worst' if Iran obtains nuclear weapons, and he specified that could mean a war. Read more