Iran dismisses force threat over nuclear program
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Iran dismissed on Tuesday threats of force to make it back down over its nuclear program and said only negotiations -- without the precondition that it stop enriching uranium -- could resolve the dispute.
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TEHRAN Iran on Sunday rejected an order by the International Atomic Energy Agency to freeze its nuclear enrichment programs and warned that it would drop out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if its case was sent to the United Nations Security Council
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Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons but does not intend doing so, a senior Iranian official said here Wednesday. &quot;We do not intend making nuclear weapons,&quot; said Ali Akbar Soltan, deputy director
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Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said here on Saturday that Iran&#39;s latest demand of 20 centrifuges being exempt from the suspension did not violate the country&#39;s commitment to its nuclear program.
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Iran on Tuesday dismissed threats to make it drop its nuclear program and offered to guarantee in negotiations that it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Iran has dismissed a proposal by US presidential candidate John Kerry, that Tehran be provided nuclear fuel if it agrees to give up its fuel-making capabilities.
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Iran&#39;s foreign minister says that Tehran will never fully dismantle its nuclear capabilities, also voicing the country&#39;s concerns about the threat of a pre-emptive strike by Washington.
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Iran formally withdrew its demand to exempt sensitive research from a freeze of key parts of its nuclear program -- a last-minute bid to remove the threat of UN economic sanctions, Western diplomats said Sunday.
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Iran's defence minister says no country would dare launch an attack against it because of its deterrent capabilities.
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Iran Sunday rejected European demands it abandon sensitive nuclear activities but reiterated its readiness to provide assurances that its atomic ambitions are entirely peaceful.
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Iran has rejected demands by Europe&#39;s three major powers to abandon its uranium enrichment programme. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Riza Asifi said on Sunday Iran had already the technology required for
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Iran backed down on a demand to exempt sensitive equipment from a freeze on uranium enrichment that can make atomic weapons, in a move that should save it from possible UN sanctions, diplomats said.
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Iran on Monday suspended sensitive nuclear activities that could be used to make a bomb in a move likely to thwart US efforts to report the Islamic Republic to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
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IRAN said today it was still committed to suspending parts of its sensitive nuclear program and alarm over its last-minute uranium conversion activities was merely US &quot;propaganda&quot;.
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Iranâs chief nuclear negotiator on Friday dismissed the new sanctions announced by the Bush administration against the Revolutionary Guard in Iran as insignificant.
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Iran's parliament speaker has dismissed U.S. accusations that Iranian boats aggressively approached three U.S. Naval ships in the Gulf this week as part of a "propaganda campaign" against the Islamic state.
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Iran stepped back from its tough rhetoric of recent days on Thursday, saying there was a "not small" chance Tehran would reach a deal with European Union negotiators on its nuclear program.