Iran stepping up radioactive gas production: diplomats
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VIENNA - Western diplomats say Iran has been producing large quantities of radioactive gas that could be used in weapons - just days before a ban on the practice comes into effect.
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PARIS, SEPTEMBER 21: Iran defied the United Nations on Tuesday by announcing that it had begun converting tons of uranium into the gas needed to turn the radioactive element into nuclear fuel.
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Iran defied the United Nations on  Tuesday by announcing it would go on converting a large amount  of raw uranium to prepare it for enrichment, a process that can  be used to develop atomic bombs.
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Iran is testing an advanced centrifuge at its Natanz nuclear complex, diplomats said on Wednesday, a move that could lead to Tehran enriching uranium much faster and gaining ability to build atom bombs.
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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 weapons.    The White House, which has been pressuring its allies to punish Iran for its nuclear ambitions, again accused Tehran of trying to build nuclear weapons and urged it Wednesday to suspend all enrichment activities...
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Iran says it has met its target to have 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium for its nuclear programme.
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Iran has told UN nuclear inspectors that it is about to process dozens of tonnes of raw uranium into the gas which centrifuges can turn into nuclear bomb material, a disclosure certain to reinforce US arguments that Tehran has embarked on a secret atomic
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Defying UN agency orders, Iran starts to enrich uranium. Is it for energy or a weapon?
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has produced a few tonnes of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official indicated today, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons
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Iran has invited an International Atomic Energy Agency team to Tehran to draw up a concrete plan for clearing up suspicions about its nuclear program, an IAEA spokeswoman said Monday.
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Iran defied the  United Nations on Tuesday by announcing it has begun converting  a large amount of raw uranium to prepare it for enrichment, a  process that can be used to develop atomic bombs.
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Despite the threat of new sanctions, Iran is advancing work at its largest nuclear facility and has informed international inspectors in writing that it will not comply with a U.N. order to suspend the program, according to U.S. and European diplomats familiar with the inspectors' latest findings.
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A senior Iranian official said on Friday Iran had allowed the installation of surveillance cameras at a complex where it is set to begin expanding enrichment of nuclear fuel.
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Iran has requested that it be permitted  to continue conducting "research and development" with  centrifuges, machines that can be used to develop material for  nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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Iran's new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it has started converting uranium into the gas needed for enrichment purposes, a process that has sparked renewed concerns about a possible bomb program.
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Iranian officials have hinted in recent days that they sped up their enrichment of uranium in the past year to put Iran in a better position to negotiate with the West.