Iran Wants Guarantee of No 'Regime Change'-Diplomats
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Iran might be willing to give up its uranium enrichment capabilities but it wants many things in return -- above all a guarantee that no one will try to topple the Islamic regime, diplomats and analysts say.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked the 28th anniversary of Iran's revolution on Sunday pledging to maintain the country's nuclear program but saying he wanted to remain within international rules.
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Iran said on Sunday it was still committed to the suspension of uranium enrichment, but warned against referring its case to the UN Security Council, the officialIRNA news agency
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Iran vowed on Thursday not to bow to   Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was expected to   report Tehran had defied a deadline to halt work which the West   fears could help it build nuclear bombs.
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Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology despite the threat of more sanctions, Iran told France in a letter published on Monday, a day before talks to try to defuse the atomic row with the West.
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President Khatami offered guarantees that the Islamic government was not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. In a press conference on Saturday in Tehran, he said the US would not succeed in Iraq and Afghanistan without help from Iran.
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VIENNA, Austria Diplomats say Iran has apparently continued with a process that&#39;s used to enrich uranium -- but the Iranians may not be breaking any promises.
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Iran on Sunday said it was ready tohold negotiations on its nuclear program &quot;without any conditions&quot;,but Tehran could not be forced to do anything, the official IRNAnews agency reported.
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A senior Iranian official said Wednesday that Iran has no fear of being sent to the U.N. Security Council for violating the non-proliferation pact, though it would be a setback in its cooperation with the U.N.
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Western diplomats said on Saturday they remained hopeful the European Union and Iran would reach a final accord on freezing key parts of Tehran's nuclear program, despite fresh remarks by Iran's foreign minister.
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Iran is ready to consider complying &#151; at least temporarily &#151; with a U.N. Security Council demand that it freeze uranium enrichment, which can be used in developing atomic weapons, diplomats told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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Tehran - Iranian officials said on Wednesday they will not cede to international demands for the Islamic republic to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment activities, saying they were ready for confrontation or negotiation.
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Iran's hard-line president on Thursday again rejected demands that Tehran suspend uranium enrichment, even as top Iranian and European diplomats sounded somewhat optimistic about making progress toward starting negotiations.
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Iran has said that it is not obliged to accept the United Nation&#39;s demands that it freeze all activities related to uranium enrichment.
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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 president said on Wednesday his country was not concerned about any further U.N. resolutions over Tehran's nuclear program and would not allow the West to block Iranian scientific progress.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said his country would not beg world powers to allow Iran to have a nuclear program.