Iran threatens to boycott nuclear talks
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Iran&#39;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened to boycott nuclear negotiations if European states press Tehran to totally suspend the process of uranium enrichment, as a new round of talks ended Wednesday without reaching an agreement.
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Iran's foreign minister warned on Friday that the latest punitive move by the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency &#151; the suspension of nearly two dozen nuclear aid programs &#151; could affect Tehran's cooperation with the agency.
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Talks meant to give Tehran a last chance to avoid U.N. sanctions were in jeopardy on Wednesday, with diplomats and European officials saying Iran's chief nuclear negotiator had still not confirmed if he would meet with the European Union's foreign policy chief.
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Iran sought a compromise at talks on  Saturday with Britain, France and Germany to avoid a dispute  over its nuclear program being referred to the United Nations  Security Council and to avert the risk of sanctions.
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Top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Wednesday Iran would not halt uranium enrichment, on the eve of talks with the EU foreign policy chief over Iran&#39;s controversial nuclear programme.
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Talks between Iran and the European Union on a package of incentives designed to defuse the standoff over Tehran&#039;s atomic program will not be held as scheduled on Wednesday, an Iranian official said.
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Iran on Sunday rejected European demands that it halt all uranium enrichment activities and described a proposal aimed at ending Tehran&#39;s nuclear standoff with the international community as &quot;unbalanced.
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Iran yesterday stepped up its confrontation with European countries as its Supreme Leader threatened to break off negotiations over its suspect nuclear weapons programme.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator canceled on Friday a trip to a conference in Germany where U.N. officials had hoped talks with European policy makers would secure a "time out" in a row over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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Iran will not accept any preconditions   for talks on its nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry   spokesman said on Sunday, dismissing the idea Iran would accept   suspension of its atomic work.
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Iran's nuclear envoy reiterates his country's refusal to stop its nuclear programme after talks with EU officials.
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Iran said on Saturday it would reject  any proposal to halt uranium enrichment, a step European Union  diplomats are proposing to end a row over whether Iran is  seeking atomic weapons.
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Iran said on Monday it rejected any preconditions for talks with the United States, which suspects it wants an atomic bomb, and a member of parliament was quoted as saying Tehran planned 19 nuclear power plants.
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Iran will stop allowing U.N. snap checks  of nuclear sites if the atomic issue is sent to the Security  Council, its chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said on  Sunday.
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Iran rejected on Sunday a resolution  from the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium  enrichment, its chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said.
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IRAN insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union to freeze its uranium enrichment programme - a move diplomats said threatened to scuttle the deal.
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Iran state radio said Saturday the government would reject a proposed U.N. resolution to suspend uranium enrichment by Aug. 31 or face the threat of international sanctions.