Iran says won't rule out using oil as a weapon
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Iran will not rule out using oil as a weapon if the United States resorts to military action against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, an Iranian oil official said in remarks published on Tuesday.
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Iran Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said on Monday there is no shortage of crude oil in the market and OPEC has no plans to increase supplies.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a U.S. television interview on Sunday that Iran did not need nuclear weapons and his country was not heading for war with the United States.
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Iran will not back down in a nuclear dispute with the West and is not interested in talks with the United States, its president said on Tuesday ahead of a previously unannounced visit by Russia's foreign minister.
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Iran on Monday rejected U.S. accusations that the highest levels of Iranian leadership have armed Shiite militants in Iraq with armor-piercing roadside bombs
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Iran's president said on Wednesday his country would not surrender to pressure as world powers prepared to put the finishing touches to new United Nations sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear ambitions.
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Iran has been testing parts for machines  that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, despite a  promise to temporarily refrain from all such activities,  Western diplomats said on Thursday.
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Iran has the military might to deter  attacks against it, Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said, after  President Bush said he would not rule out military force  against Iran over its nuclear program.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday the country had "no reverse gear" on its way to mastering the technology to make nuclear fuel, Iran's student news agency ISNA reported.
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Iran on Sunday rejected European demands it halt its pursuit of nuclear technology but reiterated its readiness to provide assurances it would not use that technology to build atomic weapons.
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Iran has been testing parts for machines that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, despite a promise to temporarily refrain from all such activities, Western diplomats said on Thursday.
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Iran is ready to prove to the world it  is not producing atomic weapons if the West recognizes the  Islamic Republic's right to have peaceful nuclear technology,  President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday.
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IRAN said today it was not obliged to allow UN atomic energy agency inspectors to visit military sites alleged to be involved in secret nuclear weapons work, but that it was willing to discuss the issue.
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Iran has not diverted any of the nuclear  materials it declared to the U.N. nuclear watchdog to any  prohibited activities, the watchdog said on Monday, but it  could not rule out the existence of covert nuclear work.
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VIENNA  - Iran denied that it had carried out any nuclear-related activity at the Parchin military site which is the subject of US and UN concern.
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Iran is believed to be years away  from having a nuclear weapon and the United States has decided  to use diplomacy, not military action, in dealing with the  issue, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday.
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Iran said yesterday it would not abandon uranium enrichment, rejecting a key demand by three European powers which have threatened to intensify pressure if Tehran does not curb its nuclear program.