Iran signals refusal of nuclear freeze: EU diplomat
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Iran has indicated to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana it will not freeze its most sensitive nuclear work and major powers will consult later this week on sanctions, a European diplomat said on Wednesday.
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The European Union cannot force Iran to  give up its right to enrich uranium, Iran's foreign minister  said, dealing a blow to EU efforts to halt the process and ease  fears Tehran is seeking a nuclear bomb.
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Iran has been seeking to exclude some uranium enrichment experiments from a nuclear freeze it agreed with three European governments this month, western diplomats said on Wednesday.
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The European Union warned on Wednesday Iran was close to triggering sanctions by refusing to halt uranium enrichment, but Tehran again insisted it would not give up its right to make nuclear fuel.
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Iran has rejected a resolution from the UN nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium enrichment and threatened to end snap checks of atomic facilities if its case were sent to the UN Security Council.
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Iran will honour its pledge to the European Union and UN nuclear watchdog to freeze uranium enrichment and all related activities, Tehran&#39;s chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says.
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Iran's senior nuclear negotiator said Sunday that "many misunderstandings were removed" in talks with the European Union about his country's refusal to meet U.N Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment.
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Iran announced last night that it was freezing all operations connected with uranium enrichment in a diplomatic victory for the European Union and a move that should spare Tehran being sent to the UN security council.
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VIENNA -- Iran insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union committing it to freeze all parts of a program that can make nuclear weapons-grade uranium, a move that diplomats said threatened to scuttle the deal.
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Iran insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union that requires the country to freeze all parts of a program
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A senior Iranian envoy on Thursday called contacts between Tehran and the European Union a "step in the right direction" in resolving the standoff over his country's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment and ...
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The European Union presidency on Friday cautioned against an early decision to impose economic and other sanctions against Iran, saying that "for the EU, diplomacy remains the Number One way forward."
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Iran on Sunday rejected a deadline set by the European Union for Iran to clear itself on the nuclear activities and said it would make no concession on its right ofpeaceful nuclear technology.
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Iran appears to have frozen major nuclear activities in an effort to persuade the world that it does not intend to build nuclear bombs, the head of the United Nations&#39; nuclear watchdog agency said Monday.
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Iran will not accept any preconditions   for talks on its nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry   spokesman said on Sunday, and also dismissed the idea Iran   would accept suspension of its atomic work.
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Iran's top negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief failed to break a deadlock over Tehran's nuclear program on Thursday despite a threat of fresh international sanctions.
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Iran Sunday rejected a European Union proposal that it scrap uranium enrichment in return for nuclear technology, increasing the likelihood it will be reported to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.