Iran May Pre-Empt Any Attack on Nuke Program -TV
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Iran might launch pre-emptive strikes to  protect its nuclear facilities if they are threatened, Defense  Minister Ali Shamkhani said in remarks broadcast on Friday.
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Iran brushed off threats intended to make it freeze its nuclear program as a U.N. deadline to do so fell due on Wednesday, but offered to guarantee it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Iran may resume uranium enrichment "any moment," the nation's intelligence minister said on state television Monday, two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency demanded that Tehran halt all such activity.
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Iran assured the world again on Sunday  it had no immediate plans to resume uranium enrichment, a  process that can be used to develop nuclear weapons.
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TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday it will continue its nuclear program but provide &quot;guarantees&quot; not to seek atomic weapons, and warned Washington it canât stabilise Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehranâs help.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should not show weakness over its nuclear program, a day after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says could to used for making bombs.
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The United States is worried about reports that Iran is using the last few days before it is to curtail nuclear activity to produce a gas that can be used to make nuclear weapons, an official said Friday.
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Iran may resume uranium enrichment &quot;any moment,&quot; Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said on state television Monday. &quot;We suspended (enrichment) voluntarily and we may continue it voluntarily,&quot; Yunesi said.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog is likely to   report on Thursday that Iran has defied a deadline to halt   atomic fuel work, exposing it to possible sanctions over   Western fears Tehran may be secretly trying to build atom   bombs.
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Iranian television sent waves through  world financial markets on Wednesday when it reported an  explosion along the coast from Iran's only nuclear plant, but  officials calmed fears saying the blast was part of  construction work.
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BEIJING: Iran will never dismantle its nuclear programs but is ready to give assurances that its uranium enrichment activities will not be diverted for weapons technology, a senior Iranian negotiator said on Wednesday.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Saturday that it would continue its nuclear program but provide &quot;guarantees&quot; not to build atomic weapons, and warned Washington that the United States cannot stabilize neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehran&#39;s help.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's president said yesterday that his nation would continue its nuclear program but provide guarantees not to build atomic weapons, and it warned Washington that it cannot stabilize neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehran's help.
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Iranian officials vowed to carefully watch for any attempted espionage by international inspectors, who on Thursday were visiting a military complex that the United States alleges may be involved in nuclear weapons research.
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Iran said on Friday it might extend a partial freeze on uranium enrichment in order to ease Western fears about its nuclear ambitions, but a senior U.S. official dismissed this as a ploy to fend off tough U.N. action.
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Iran warned Wednesday that U.N. sanctions could "destroy" its willingness to cooperate with an investigation of past nuclear activities. Undeterred, the U.S. said it still would push for new penalties unless Tehran scraps technology that could make the bomb.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should not show weakness over its nuclear program, after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says will be used to make atom bombs.