Iran Won&#39;t Abandon Nuclear Fuel Program
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TEHRAN, Iran Sept. 12, 2004 - Iran said Sunday it would not abandon uranium enrichment, rejecting a key demand by three European powers that have threatened to intensify pressure if Tehran does not curb its nuclear program.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday that Iran will push on with its nuclear program even if it is forced to halt inspections by the UN nuclear watchdog.
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TEHRAN, Iran Iran says it is interested in buying nuclear fuel from the West, but that it won&#39;t give up its right to also develop its own nuclear technology.
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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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TEHRAN, Iran Iran says it won&#39;t be bullied into giving up its nuclear energy plans. State television quotes a government spokesman (Hamid Reza Asefi) who says Tehran only wants proposals that meet its national
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Iran has not abandoned its right to enrich uranium, as the suspension it agreed to with the UN nuclear agency is for several months, Iran&#39;s top nuclear official, Hassan Rowhani, said Tuesday.
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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 sent mixed messages Thursday about its nuclear agenda: The ruling cleric vowed not to give up the atomic program &amp;#151; calling it more important than oil revenues &amp;#151; but the president said Tehran is ready to negotiate on resolving the standoff.
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Iran has not offered to temporarily   suspend its uranium enrichment program as part of an effort to   launch nuclear negotiations with six major powers, despite   reports it had shown flexibility, the State Department said on   Tuesday.
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President Mohammad Khatami, in a rare news conference, said Saturday that Iran would not give up its right to have a nuclear program and that it was willing to guarantee it
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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 will not abandon its right to nuclear technology regardless of threats of more sanctions, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a letter to his French counterpart issued on Monday by an Iranian news agency.
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VIENNA -- Iran has steadily expanded its program to enrich uranium and defied a United Nations Security Council deadline for an immediate freeze of nuclear activities before it gains the capability to produce fuel for nuclear weapons, the UN nuclear watchdog agency said here yesterday.
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BEIJING: Iran will never dismantle its nuclear programs but is ready to give assurances that its uranium enrichment activities will not be diverted for weapons technology, a senior Iranian negotiator said on Wednesday.
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Iran reiterated Sunday that it won't accept any proposal depriving it of the right to enrich uranium, saying it can't be bullied into giving up its nuclear energy program, state media reported.
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Iran still refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment before the start of talks on its nuclear program &#151; a key demand by the six nations locked in a diplomatic standoff with the Islamic republic, officials said Tuesday.
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VIENNA  - Iran and Europe continued efforts to see whether Tehran could unconditionally respect a commitment to freeze any nuclear fuel cycle work that could be diverted to produce atomic weapons.