Iran Wants to Amend Nuke Freeze, EU Says No
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Iran has requested that it be permitted to continue conducting &quot;research and development&quot; with centrifuges, machines that can be used to develop material for nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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Iran's senior nuclear negotiator said Sunday that "many misunderstandings were removed" in talks with the European Union about his country's refusal to meet U.N Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment.
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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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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 rejected Sunday a U.N. resolution  calling on it to freeze uranium enrichment activities and  threatened to stop snap checks of its atomic facilities if its  case were sent to the U.N. Security Council.
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Iran said it would meet the European Union&#39;s Monday deadline for suspending uranium enrichment and allay fears it was trying to make a nuclear bomb -- the freeze could spare it from UN sanctions.
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Iran announced last night that it was freezing all operations connected with uranium enrichment in a diplomatic victory for the European Union and a move that should spare Tehran being sent to the UN security council.
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European Union foreign ministers want more dialogue with Iran rather than immediate sanctions after Tehran defied a U.N. deadline to stop sensitive nuclear work, officials said on Friday.
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Iran has rejected UN demands that it freeze its uranium enrichment programme, and threatened to bar access for nuclear inspectors and renege on its international nuclear commitments if the issue is raised in the UN Security Council, report agencies.
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VIENNA/TEHRAN  - Iran failed on Thursday to give a  definitive answer to an EU demand 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's nuclear envoy reiterates his country's refusal to stop its nuclear programme after talks with EU officials.
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Iran insisted Thursday it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union committing it to freeze all parts of a program that can make nuclear weapons-grade uranium, a move that diplomats said
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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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Iran has asked the UN atomic agency to exempt several dozen centrifuges from an agreement with the European Union which went into effect two days ago freezing its nuclear fuel cycle, diplomats told AFP.
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VIENNA, Austria  - Iranian negotiators at the UN atomic watchdog agency sought their government's approval Friday for a compromise on implementing Iran's agreement with European powers to totally freeze a nuclear program that can produce weapons-grade uranium.
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Iran confirmed Wednesday it was holding talks with Europe on freezing some nuclear activities but said it won't give up its plan to control the whole nuclear fuel cycle, from mining uranium to enriching it.
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The European Union pressed Iran on Wednesday to scrap its uranium enrichment program in exchange for nuclear technology, but diplomats said it was unclear if Tehran would agree.