Diplomats: Iran Using Gas in New Centrifuges
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VIENNA, Feb. 13 -- Iran's new-generation advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats said Wednesday.
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VIENNA, Austria - Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday that it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.   "Tests are going on successfully" to make uranium hexafluoride gas, the feed stock for enrichment, said Iranian Vice President Reza Aghazadeh...
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TEHRAN - Iran's leaders issued dual defiant statements yesterday, with the president announcing that the nation had 3,000 active centrifuges to enrich uranium, and the top ayatollah appointing a new Islamic Revolutionary Guards commander who once advocated military force against students.
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VIENNA, Nov. 25. - Iran has exempted some centrifuges from an agreement to freeze uranium enrichment and related activities, the head of the UN atomic watchdog agency said today, suggesting that Teheran may go back on its commitments.
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Iran had sought to have 20 centrifuges exempted from its suspension of its nuclear program, arguing in talks at the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog agency that their use would be limited to research and development.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has produced a few tonnes of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official indicated today, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons
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Just a day before an international deadline, Iran agreed Sunday not to test any centrifuges as part of a total suspension of nuclear activities that can yield uranium for atomic weapons. Diplomats described the about-face as an effort to avoid possible U.N. sanctions.
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THE NEWS: Iran agreed Sunday not to test any centrifuges as part of a total suspension of nuclear activities that can yield uranium for atomic weapons.
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Shrugging off the threat of tougher U.N. sanctions, Iran has set up more than 300 centrifuges in two uranium enrichment units at its underground Natanz complex, diplomats and officials said Monday.
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Iran has requested that it be permitted to continue conducting &quot;research and development&quot; with centrifuges, machines that can be used to develop material for nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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Iran has made a last minute request to operate dozens of centrifuges, despite their plan to halt to all uranium enrichment activities.
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VIENNA -- Raising doubts about its commitment to dispel international distrust, Iran is producing significant quantities of a gas that can be used to make nuclear arms just days before it must stop all work related to uranium enrichment, diplomats said yesterday.
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VIENNA - The head of Iran&#39;s Atomic Energy Organization said Tuesday his nation has begun converting large amounts of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium and has successfully produced uranium hexafluoride, a feed material for enrichment centrifuges.
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It wants to be allowed to operate dozens of centrifuges &quot;for research purposes&quot; -- an activity banned under a uranium enrichment freeze Iran just agreed to.
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Iran says it has met its target to have 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium for its nuclear programme.
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Iran is producing  a gas that can be used to make nuclear arms ahead of a Monday deadline, Western diplomats say.
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Iran has set up two cascades of 164 centrifuges each in its underground nuclear plant, laying a basis for full-scale enrichment of uranium and upping the stakes in a standoff with the West, European diplomats said on Monday.