U.S. Says Iran Atom Bomb Years Away, Tehran Defiant
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WASHINGTON/TEHRAN  - The United States on Sunday  played down any suggestion of attacking Iran, which it said may  be years from making an atomic bomb, but Tehran vowed to press  on with a nuclear program it insists is peaceful.
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A senior Iranian military official said  Sunday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran  since it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest  missiles, news agencies reported.
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Iran is probably three to eight years away from producing a nuclear bomb if it so chooses, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog warned on Thursday.
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Iran could acquire a nuclear bomb in  the next one to four years and would become more willing to aid  terrorist groups once it has an atomic capability, according to  a U.S. study released on Tuesday.
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A senior Iranian military official said Sunday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest missiles, news agencies reported.
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The deadlines are all past, yet Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program.
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A hawkish U.S. official said on Tuesday that Iran has warned it could make enough bomb-grade material in a year to produce a nuclear weapon, a threat that may boost a U.S. push to report Tehran to the United Nations.
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Iran vowed defiantly on Thursday not to   bow to Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was   expected to report Tehran had failed to meet a deadline to halt   work which the West fears could help it build a nuclear bomb.
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Iran's nuclear work is almost at its "peak", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday while the head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog said Iran was probably at least three years from making a nuclear bomb if it so chooses.
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Iran will never suspend uranium enrichment as demanded by the West, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday after world powers agreed to work on a new U.N. resolution over Tehran's atomic plans.
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Iran said Saturday it would continue its nuclear program but provide ``guarantees&#39;&#39; not to build atomic weapons, and warned Washington it cannot stabilize neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehran&#39;s help.
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LONDON/TEHRAN  - Israel said on Wednesday Tehran  was just six months away from being able to build an atomic  bomb, as Iranian state television rattled markets by reporting  an explosion near Iran's only nuclear power plant.
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Iran's foreign minister reiterated Tuesday that his country would never again suspend uranium enrichment, a move the United States says is essential for Washington-Tehran negotiations
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TEHRAN/WASHINGTON  - Iran, in a renewed challenge  to U.S. and European efforts to prevent it from acquiring a  nuclear bomb, vowed on Wednesday it would never give up its  nuclear program.
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The U.S. military is operating on   the assumption that Tehran is five to eight years away from   being able to build a nuclear bomb, The Washington Times   reported in its Thursday edition.
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VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 14: After two years of investigating Iranâs atomic programme, the UN nuclear watchdog still cannot rule out that Tehran has a secret atom-bomb project as Washington insists, the agencyâs chief said on Tuesday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday it was time for Iran to change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant hours ahead of talks on the issue with the European Union.