IranÂ´s nuclear stubbornness
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by RN Security and Defence editor Hans de Vreij, 24 September 2004. Iran and the United Nations remain on collision course as Tehran sticks by its refusal to end its uranium enrichment programme.
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Iran&#39;s new pledge to halt its advance toward a nuclear arsenal is at best a gamble, more likely a deception. But the awful truth of our predicament (and, by &quot;our,&quot; I mean the world&#39;s) is that
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VIENNA: Iran may be hiding the equipment its military bought and could be used to make nuclear-weapons-grade uranium, despite its agreement to freeze all such programmes and place them under UN supervision.
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Iran has not accepted a proposal of the European Union (EU) to trade nuclear technology with its uranium enrichment program. &quot;It is just at the initial stage.
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Iran says it will not give up its plans to build a heavy-water nuclear reactor.
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Iran on Thursday said it plans to press ahead with construction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor the U.S. and its allies fear could be used to produce plutonium to build atomic weapons hours after the U.N. nuclear watchdog denied Tehran help in building it.
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A defiant Iran faces the threat of U.N.   Security Council sanctions after the world body's atomic   watchdog said Tehran refused to stop work on its nuclear   program by a Thursday deadline.
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IranÂs president continued defiant pronouncements today, the U.N. deadline to halt production of nuclear fuel.
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Iran on Sunday has refused to accept a European nuclear proposal, terming it as &quot;unbalanced.&quot;. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday that the proposal asking Iran to stop uranium enrichment activities
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VIENNA -- Iran said yesterday that it would press ahead to build a nuclear reactor despite the decision by the UN's nuclear agency against giving technical assistance to the project.
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Iran is expanding its nuclear program in defiance of United Nationsâ resolutions, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday.
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Iran vowed not to cave in to international pressure over its nuclear plans, as the European Union lamented a lack of progress in talks on a Western offer to defuse the standoff.
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unable to reach an agreement with Iran on freezing the country&#39;s uranium enrichment program, because Iran refuses to retract its demand to continue operating 20 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, which it claims are for research and development purposes.
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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 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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TEHRAN  - Iran stuck by its demand that 20 centrifuges be excluded from its agreement to freeze nuclear fuel work, and complained a draft International Atomic Energy Agency resolution was &quot;not satisfactory&quot;.
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Two announcements today appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.