Iran "digging a hole" in nuclear dispute
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A senior United States diplomat said on Friday that Iran is "digging a hole deeper and deeper for itself" in the international dispute over its atomic energy program.
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Iran on Thursday said it plans to press ahead with construction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor the U.S. and its allies fear could be used to produce plutonium to build atomic weapons hours after the U.N. nuclear watchdog denied Tehran help in building it.
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Iran's failure to clear up concerns about its nuclear activities after concealing them for almost 20 years sets it apart from all other nations, the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Monday.
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Iran's persistent failure to clear up concerns about its nuclear activities after concealing them for almost 20 years sets it apart from all other nations, the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Monday.
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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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Iran's government is conducting nuclear  activities linked to a covert atomic weapons program at a  military site unknown to U.N. inspectors, says an exiled  opposition group that has given accurate information before.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he considered the dispute over his countryâs nuclear program âclosed.â
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Iran appears to be encountering   technical difficulties with its uranium enrichment but this   does not diminish the fact that it has nuclear ambitions and is   acting on them, U.S. officials and experts said on Thursday.
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Iran will not back down in a nuclear dispute with the West and is not interested in talks with the United States, its president said on Tuesday ahead of a previously unannounced visit by Russia's foreign minister.
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Iran has resolved questions from the UN's nuclear watchdog about its plutonium experiments, Tehran says.
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Iran said Sunday it would work to settle disputes over its atomic program if its case went back to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency &#151; a stance far from Western demands that it suspend uranium enrichment.
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Itâs unclear whether Iran has withdrawn its demand that some of its technology be excluded from a freeze on nuclear enrichment activities.
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The United States is looking for a reason to act against Iran amid accusations Tehran is secretly developing atomic weapons, Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said in remarks published on Tuesday.
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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 has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to send a team to agree how to resolve questions about Tehran's contested atomic program, the U.N. watchdog said on Monday.
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Iran said on Tuesday it would let the U.N. nuclear watchdog take further environmental sampling of materials related to an academic center, where Washington fears work to make atomic bombs was conducted.
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TEHRAN/VIENNA  - Iran said Wednesday it has  cleared up all major outstanding ambiguities over its nuclear  program to reassure the world it was not trying to make an  atomic bomb, but diplomats at the U.N. disagreed.