U.S. Keeps Pressure on Iran But Decreases Saber Rattling
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates insisted again Friday that, despite persistent reports to the contrary circulating in Washington and around the world, the United States is not planning military action against Iran.
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The United States told Iran on Thursday  it must change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran  remained defiant as it held talks on its atomic program with  the European Union.
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The United States told Iran on Thursday it must change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant as it held talks on its atomic program with the European Union.
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OPEC was poised to keep production steady Thursday as Iran blamed the United States for high oil prices, saying threats against its nuclear program are behind much of the fear and speculation in the market.
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The pledge by Iran to stop uranium enrichment has reduced the possibility of military intervention by the United States or Israel to destroy Iran&#39; s growing nuclear weapons potential.
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The Bush administration failed on Friday to persuade them to increase diplomatic pressure on Iran, settling instead for another request that Tehran voluntarily drop its nuclear program.
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The United States, determined to prevent  Iran from building nuclear weapons, is piling pressure on  European firms to stop them doing business with Tehran,  diplomats say.
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After a series of tough statements about Iran from the Bush administration, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that U.S. still had "many diplomatic tools" to use in the showdown over Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program and other issues.
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SANTIAGO, NOVEMBER 21: US President George W. Bush increased the administrationâs pressure on Iran on Saturday, saying that there were indications that the country was speeding forward in the production of a key ingredient for nuclear weapons fuel, a
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Iranâs increasing economic and political isolation is helping leaders to hold back what they see as corrupting foreign influences.
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The United States told Iran on Thursday it must change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant despite the specter of harsher sanctions as it held talks on its atomic work with the European Union.
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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&#39;t yet won agreement to haul the country before the UN Security Council, a US official
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The United States wants world powers to agree to a moderate tightening of U.N. sanctions against Iran because of its continued work on its nuclear program, the State Department said Monday.
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Condoleezza Rice sought to keep the pressure on Iran yesterday as she raced around Europe and the Middle East on her inaugural tour as US Secretary of State, urging Russia to withhold fuel from Tehran to stop ...
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"To those who say that we should handle Iran with kid gloves, since it could destabilize the region, I say this: look at its adventurism today and imagine what it would be like if Tehran thought itself one day protected by a nuclear umbrella"  The United States and France agree on how to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.At a joint news conference Rice gave with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, both officials spoke of the need for new sanctions against Iran.'I think that there's, essentially, no difference in the way that we see the situation in Iran and what the international community must do,' Rice said.Warm words between the two foreign policy counterparts marked a narrowing of differences since the days that Kouchner's predecessor, Dominique de Villepin, helped block a United Nations resolution sought by the United States on Iraq. Read more
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The world's major powers will try to narrow their differences on tougher sanctions against Iran when they meet on Friday in New York, seeking to keep up pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear program.
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The United States is not planning for a war with Iran and instead is trying to stop them from contributing to the violence in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.