Middle East ; Iran still striving for centrifuge exemption
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Middle East News, Iran said yesterday that it was still discussing with Europe on its demand on the exemption of 20 centrifuges from the suspension, sniffing at the prospect of the referral of its nuclear case to the UN Security Council.
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Iran has not put into prohibited activities any nuclear materials it declared to the UN atomic watchdog, the watchdog said on Monday, but it could not rule out the existence of covert nuclear work.
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Iran says it has met its target to have 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium for its nuclear programme.
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WASHINGTON -- Despite the threat of new sanctions, Iran is advancing work at its largest nuclear facility and has informed international inspectors in writing that it will not comply with a United Nations order to suspend the program, according to US and European diplomats familiar with the inspectors' latest findings.
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SAGHAND, Iran - Iran's campaign to control the nuclear fuel cycle starts deep under this barren patch of desert, in a mine that engineers expect to start yielding uranium ore in less than two years.    Elsewhere in central Iran, the ore will be processed into yellowcake powder and then into uranium hexaflouride gas, and the gas injected into centrifuges to be enriched into fuel...
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Middle East News, Iran&#39;s suspension of uranium enrichment is not yet complete as Iran still wants to use 20 centrifuges for research, the UN&#39;s chief nuclear inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei has reported.
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Tehran requests EU allow it to conduct nuclear tests despite recently signed agreement to forgo them. The Islamic republic requested on Wednesday that it be allowed to operate dozens of centrifuges &quot;for research
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TEHRAN, Iran Iranian officials say the country&#39;s agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog agency doesn&#39;t mean it has given up its right to enrich uranium.
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Iran has slowed the installation of centrifuge machines that enrich uranium for its controversial nuclear program, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday.
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NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 24: Aware of Iranâs dependence on India to market its gas, New Delhi is dragging its feet even as Tehran pumped up the gas on the proposed Iran-India pipeline traversing through Pakistan.
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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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Iran will voluntarily &quot;continue and extend its suspension to include all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities,&quot; according to its 14 November agreement with the European Union&#39;s &quot;Big Three&quot; -- France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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Iran said on Sunday it was still committed to the suspension of uranium enrichment, but warned against referring its case to the UN Security Council, the officialIRNA news agency
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Iran toughened its position over its nuclear program Sunday, vowing to maintain its demand to exempt 20 centrifuges it says it wants for research despite international efforts to save a deal committing Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment and all related activities.
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Shrugging off the threat of tougher U.N. sanctions, Iran has set up more than 300 centrifuges in two uranium enrichment units at its underground Natanz complex, diplomats and officials said Monday.
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TEHRAN: Iran pledged yesterday it was still committed to suspending parts of its sensitive nuclear activities as of today and that alarm over its last minute uranium conversion activities was merely US &quot;propaganda&quot;.
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Iran says it will suspend all uranium enrichment today in line with an agreement reached with Britain, France and Germany. There are concerns that Tehran is still producing a gas which can be used to make nuclear weapons.