Iranian leaders defend fuel rationing
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Iran's top leaders defended a new fuel rationing plan Saturday that sparked violence earlier this week, saying it will free up funding for development projects and make the country "invincible," state-run television reported.
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Iran faces the risk of sanctions after a   U.N. nuclear watchdog report on Thursday likely to find that   Tehran has ignored a deadline to halt an atomic fuel program   Western leaders say could lead to bombs.
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Iran's leaders apparently believe that the benefits of obtaining a nuclear bomb now outweigh the drawbacks.
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Iran criticises Russia for holding up shipping nuclear fuel, delaying completion of its first nuclear power station.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday denied reports that Iran had slowed down its atomic work, which the West fears is aimed at making nuclear bombs.
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Iran will halt gasoline imports from  September 23 and start rationing gasoline supplies to motorists  because of budget constraints, Iranian Oil Minister Kazem  Vaziri-Hamaneh said on Friday.
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Iran's supreme leader on Sunday denied his country had any plans to build atomic weapons, but the president insisted the nuclear program itself was not negotiable.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Mahmoud   Ahmadinejad shored up opposition to a U.S. drive to curb Iran's   nuclear program on a visit to Venezuela on Sunday that cemented   an anti-American front with President Hugo Chavez.
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Iran's top leader said Saturday the country's oil and gas reserves will eventually dry up and defended the drive to produce nuclear fuel, claiming it was the only way to avoid dependence on the West for energy.
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Iran on Sunday rejected reports that it has used Chinese uranium gas for enrichment, saying it used its own domestically produced high-quality gas.
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Iran's decision to raise gasoline prices has thrown new light on one of its most entrenched problems &#151; the danger a vulnerable, subsidized economy poses for a country under international pressure over its nuclear program.
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Iran will not back down "one iota" in its nuclear dispute with Western powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a huge rally marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution on Monday.
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Iran's president warns his government will not back down one iota in its nuclear dispute with the West.
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Iran says it will not give up its plans to build a heavy-water nuclear reactor.
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Iran's supreme leader says the US should not use the nuclear stand-off to bring Iran to its knees.
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TEHRAN  - Iran stuck by its demand that 20 centrifuges be excluded from its agreement to freeze nuclear fuel work, and complained a draft International Atomic Energy Agency resolution was &quot;not satisfactory&quot;.
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Iran's supreme leader on Thursday rejected reports of a power struggle within the Islamic Republic's leadership and praised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a fierce critic of the West.