REGION: Iran sticks by its ârightâ to possess nuclear fuel ...
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TEHRAN: Iran repeated on Sunday it had a ârightâ to master the sensitive nuclear fuel cycle, ahead of an expected proposal from Europe calling for Tehran to abandon such work in exchange for diplomatic and trade incentives.
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Iran has persisted in enriching uranium despite the threat of U.N. sanctions and a looming deadline to freeze such operations, U.N. and European officials said Wednesday.
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TEHERAN - Iranâs top national security official said Tuesday that Teheran had only agreed to a temporary freeze of its controversial nuclear fuel activities and would never totally abandon its uranium enrichment work.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has produced a few tons of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official indicated Wednesday, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel - or nuclear
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TEHRAN -- The European Union warned yesterday that Iran was close to triggering sanctions by refusing to halt uranium enrichment, but Tehran again insisted that it would not give up its right to produce nuclear fuel.
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Iran still refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment before the start of talks on its nuclear program &#151; a key demand by the six nations locked in a diplomatic standoff with the Islamic republic, officials said Tuesday.
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Iran said Saturday it would continue its nuclear program but provide "guarantees" not to build atomic weapons, and warned Washington it cannot stabilize neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehran's help.
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Raising doubts about its commitment to dispel international distrust, Iran is producing significant quantities of a gas that can be used to make nuclear arms just days before it must stop all work related to uranium enrichment, diplomats said Friday.
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Iran vowed on Wednesday to press ahead with its nuclear program, in defiance of a U.N. deadline to freeze uranium enrichment, but offered to guarantee it would not try to develop atomic weapons.
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The question has become more urgent as Tehran resists the International Atomic Energy Agency&#39;s demand that it suspend the enrichment of uranium, part of a process that can lead either to electricity generation or a stockpile of atomic bombs.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- From this country's divisive political sphere to its disaffected streets, one thing binds Iranians of all ideologies: a fervent belief in the Islamic Republic's right to its nuclear program.
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Defying UN agency orders, Iran starts to enrich uranium. Is it for energy or a weapon?
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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, the key U.N. demand in a nuclear row with Tehran, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the day before talks with the EU's Javier Solana.
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VIENNA, Austria - Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.    Iran's president, Mohammad Khatami, vowed his country will press ahead with its nuclear program - which he insisted is peaceful - even if it means a rupture with the U.N...
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Iran vowed anew to continue enriching uranium, dealing a potential setback to a European plan to ease the nuclear standoff with Tehran by offering sales of nuclear fuel and a trade deal as incentives.
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Iran began processing uranium more than a week ago to prepare it for enrichment -- a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons -- in defiance of the United Nations
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SAGHAND, Iran - Iran's campaign to control the nuclear fuel cycle starts deep under this barren patch of desert, in a mine that engineers expect to start yielding uranium ore in less than two years.    Elsewhere in central Iran, the ore will be processed into yellowcake powder and then into uranium hexaflouride gas, and the gas injected into centrifuges to be enriched into fuel...