Despite compromise, Iran sanctions measure elusive
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In an effort to resolve Russia's objections, proposed European sanctions against the Iranian nuclear program would ease bans on goods and technology that Tehran could import but no deal is in sight, diplomats said on Friday.
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Iran is considering a deal offered by key EU nations that seeks to resolve the stalemate over Tehran&#39;s uranium enrichment programme.
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The major powers sought to overcome final differences on a proposed new package of sanctions against Iran on Tuesday amid optimism that they were moving closer to agreement on measures to pressure Iran to suspend uranium enrichment.
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A European deal with Iran is approved, but some see its demands as too ambiguous. By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Iran has said it has frozen all uranium enrichment programmes, in line with an agreement it made with European nations but still short of US and European demands that it scrap such activities permanently.
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Talks meant to give Tehran a last chance to avoid U.N. sanctions were in jeopardy on Wednesday, with diplomats and European officials saying Iran's chief nuclear negotiator had still not confirmed if he would meet with the European Union's foreign policy chief.
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A defiant Iran faces the threat of U.N.   Security Council sanctions after the world body's atomic   watchdog said Tehran refused to stop work on its nuclear   program by a Thursday deadline.
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Iran's top negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief failed to break a deadlock over Tehran's nuclear program on Thursday despite a threat of fresh international sanctions.
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Western powers are struggling to decide how to react to Iran&#39;s fledgling nuclear programme. Take a hard line, and the Iranian people may side with the hawks in their government, who want to develop nuclear weapons.
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The Bush administration may be on the verge of getting what it has long sought: United Nations sanctions on a defiant Iran over its accelerated nuclear program. That may not be much of a victory.
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The United States narrowed differences with European allies Friday on how to pressure Iran to renounce the development of nuclear weapons, but it hasn't yet won agreement to haul the country before the U.N. Security Council, a U.S. official said.
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Iran and its European partners struggled to salvage their agreement committing Tehran to freeze an important part of its nuclear program.
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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 has failed to meet a U.N. Security   Council demand that it suspend nuclear enrichment, six world   powers agreed on Thursday, but there was growing opposition to   U.S. calls for sanctions against Tehran.
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Six world powers failed on Tuesday to agree a draft U.N. resolution to slap sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, and after months of haggling France said several key differences remain between the West and Russia.
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Tehran has ignored deadlines and ultimatums, but as long as it offers a diplomatic way out of the standoff, there'll be little support for sanctions
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The U.S. and its closest Western allies may soon call a vote on U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran, even at the risk that Russia and China may abstain or veto the measures, officials said Sunday.