Iran Freezes Nuclear Efforts
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Iran said it was freezing its controversial nuclear fuel work Monday after brokering a deal with Britain, France and Germany. The UN&#39;s atomic watchdog sees the move as easing fears the Islamic regime is seeking the bomb.
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Iran&#39;s chief negotiator to the United Nations nuclear agency says Tehran is committed to the freeze on uranium enrichment agreed earlier this month.
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Iran said Sunday that demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment &#151; technology that can be used for nuclear weapons &#151; were "illegal."
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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 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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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday that demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment - technology that can be used for nuclear weapons - were "illegal."   Hasan Rowhani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, said at a news conference that his country would nonetheless continue with its voluntary suspension of what he described as "actual enrichment" - the injection of uranium gas into centrifuges...
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Iran has agreed in principle to renew a  freeze of some sensitive nuclear activities in a move  apparently aimed at easing pressure ahead of a U.N. nuclear  watchdog meeting next week, diplomats said Tuesday.
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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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TEHRAN, Iran Iranian officials say it&#39;s &quot;illegal&quot; for the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency to make them freeze all of their uranium enrichment work.
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Iran has abandoned its demand to be allowed to continue some of its controversial nuclear activities, the BBC reported Sunday. UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy
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Iran has ignored a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment &#151; a possible pathway to nuclear arms &#151; and has instead expanded its program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday. The finding paves the way for new U.N. sanctions.
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VIENNA -- Iran said yesterday that it has frozen all uranium enrichment programs, an assertion welcomed by Europe even as it weakened a US push to refer Tehran's suspect nuclear activities to the UN Security Council. President Bush said he hoped the statement is true, but ''there must be verification.&quot;
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Iran has backed down on its demand to exempt some equipment from a freeze on its uranium-equipment program, diplomats reportedly said Sunday.
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Iran brushed off threats intended to make it freeze its nuclear program as a U.N. deadline to do so fell due on Wednesday, but offered to guarantee it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Iran and European negotiators have apparently salvaged a deal committing Tehran to freezing all parts of a program that can make nuclear-weapons grade uranium, diplomats said Friday.
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Backing down before a Monday deadline, Iran apparently has given up its demand to exempt some equipment from a deal freezing uranium enrichment programs that can make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Sunday.
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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.