Iran says nuclear freeze won&#39;t last
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Iran will only freeze its uranium enrichment activities for a few months and has no plans to permanently mothball facilities which could make atomic bombs.
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Iran has promised to meet Monday&#39;s deadline and suspend a uranium enrichment process that could be used for making nuclear weapons.
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Iran said on Friday it might extend its  partial freeze of 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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VIENNA -- Iran failed yesterday to give a definitive answer to an EU demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities or face referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, a diplomat familiar with the talks said.
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Iran stressed on Monday its decision to freeze sensitive nuclear work was a voluntary move to dispel concerns it was secretly building atomic arms and would last only for a short time.
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Iran said yesterday that demands from the UN atomic watchdog to freeze all uranium enrichment work that can be used for nuclear weapons were &quot;illegal,&quot; but left open the possibility it was ready to negotiate on the issue.
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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 has rejected a UN resolution calling on the country to freeze uranium enrichment activities. It has also threatened to stop snap checks of its atomic facilities if Iran&#39;s case is referred to the UN Security Council.
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TEHRAN  - Iran said it was freezing its controversial nuclear fuel work in a move welcomed hailed by the head of the UN&#39;s atomic watchdog as a step in the right direction to easing fears the Islamic regime is seeking the bomb.
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Iran's suspension of uranium enrichment,  promised to European Union states last year, will be "short and  temporary," an Iranian official said Monday.
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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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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, as demanded by the West, but is still holding talks about its nuclear program, the Iranian government spokesman said on Monday.
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Iran and its European partners struggled on Friday to salvage their agreement committing Tehran to freeze an important part of its nuclear program, European and Iranian officials said.
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Iran said Sunday its nuclear activities have not halted or slowed down, rejecting reports that it has not significantly expanded its uranium enrichment program this summer as planned.
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European Union foreign ministers are pushing Iran to maintain its temporary freeze on uranium enrichment, which the International Atomic Energy Agency says began Monday.
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Top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Wednesday Iran would not halt uranium enrichment, on the eve of talks with the EU foreign policy chief over Iran&#39;s controversial nuclear programme.
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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.