French, Americans would back strike on Iran - poll
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Most French and Americans would   support military action against Iran as a last resort if other   means fail to stop it acquiring nuclear weapons, a major   transatlantic opinion survey showed on Wednesday.
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"We must negotiate right to the end"  The French government has asked the country's biggest companies not to invest in Iran, as the tension mounts over Tehran's nuclear ambitions ahead of a meeting this week of the world's big powers. via MSN Money
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The United States will use &quot;persuasive arguments&quot; over the weekend in hopes of winning European support for UN Security Council action to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, a top US official said Friday.
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More Europeans see the United States as a threat to global stability than Iran and North Korea combined, according to a poll published Monday.
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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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France, Britain and Germany have met a key US demand by drafting a UN nuclear resolution that sets a November deadline for Iran to dispel worries it has a covert atom bomb program, diplomats said on Saturday.
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Germany urged the United States on Saturday to back EU diplomacy on Iran to stop it acquiring nuclear weapons, while Tehran expressed optimism about reaching a deal with the Europeans.
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The United States on Thursday pressed Iran to respond to demands that it comply with the UN nuclear watchdog after three European nations made a last-chance proposal to entice Tehran into compliance.
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UNITED NATIONS, March 9 -- U.S., British, French and German diplomats agreed in a closed-door meeting Friday to drop a proposal to impose a mandatory travel ban on Iranian officials linked to the country's most sensitive nuclear activities, Security Council diplomats said.
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Iran has given a response to EU pressure for it to suspend uranium enrichment, the French foreign ministry has said. Iranian authorities delivered their reply late on Thursday to Britain, France and Germany
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The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree on Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said.
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The United States and Europe are   divided over negotiations with Iran, with the Bush   administration resisting a new European offer that includes a   proposal for a Middle East security "framework" for Iran if it   gives up its nuclear activities, The New York Times reported on   Saturday.
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France, Britain and Germany have met a  key U.S. demand by drafting a U.N. nuclear resolution that sets  a November deadline for Iran to dispel worries it has a covert  atom bomb program, diplomats said on Saturday.
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VIENNA, Austria - Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N...
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Most Americans and Europeans believe diplomacy is the key to resolving the nuclear dispute with Iran, according to a survey released Wednesday. But sizable groups of respondents back force if talks fail.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's recent tough talk on Iran likely will be a topic of discussion when he meets U.S. officials in Washington.
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The United States and Europe are  divided over negotiations with Iran, with the Bush  administration resisting a new European offer that includes a  proposal for a Middle East security &quot;framework&quot; for Iran if it  gives up its nuclear activities, The New York Times reported on  Saturday.