Iran refuses to budge on UN demands
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The United States and other world powers on Thursday worked on a response to Tehran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council ultimatum on mothballing its uranium enrichment program, while Iranian dissidents presented a list of alleged front companies they said were set up by the Islamic republic to evade U.N. sanctions.
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IranÂs president told the U.N. secretary general that he would not halt uranium enrichment before negotiations.
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Iran has failed to meet a U.N. Security   Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment, six world   powers agreed on Thursday, but there was growing opposition to   U.S. calls for sanctions.
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Iran on Tuesday refused to suspend uranium enrichment and asked the European Union (EU) to take confidence-building moves. &quot;Iran cannot be forced to discontinue enrichment process
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unable to reach an agreement with Iran on freezing the country&#39;s uranium enrichment program, because Iran refuses to retract its demand to continue operating 20 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, which it claims are for research and development purposes.
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Iran rejected on Sunday a resolution from the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium enrichment and threatened to end snap checks of atomic facilities if its case were sent to the U.N. Security Council.
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VIENNA -- Facing fierce international pressure, Iran backed off yesterday from its demand to be allowed to continue operating some uranium enrichment equipment, salvaging a deal with the UN's atomic watchdog agency that nonproliferation officials hope would curb Tehran's alleged nuclear ambitions.
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A defiant Iran faces the threat of U.N.   Security Council sanctions after the world body's atomic   watchdog said Tehran refused to stop work on its nuclear   program by a Thursday deadline.
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Iran has ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment or face the possibility of sanctions.
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Iran on Tuesday defied international calls for it to stop enriching uranium, a day before a U.N. deadline for it to back down.
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Iran remained defiant Thursday as a U.N. deadline arrived for it to halt uranium enrichment, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said unanimity among the Security Council was not needed to take action against Tehran.
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Iran will not comply with IAEA demands that it freeze all activities related to the enrichment of uranium and the Islamic republic is open for both confrontation and negotiations, Iranâs senior national security official said.
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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 vowed on Thursday never to shelve   its nuclear program, defying the threat of sanctions as a U.N.   deadline fell due for Tehran to stop work that the West fears   could lead to atomic bombs.
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Iran expects the United Nations to hold off on new sanctions while Tehran pursues new talks with the UN atomic agency about its disputed nuclear work, a senior Iranian official said Friday.
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IRAN is defying the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) while engaging in an &quot;unrelenting push toward nuclear weapons capability&quot;, the US said today.
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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.