Iran says talks, not sanctions, only way in atom row
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator told major powers on Thursday that talks, not more sanctions, offered the only way forward for resolving an escalating standoff over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
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Iran's president said on Wednesday his country was not concerned about any further U.N. resolutions over Tehran's nuclear program and would not allow the West to block Iranian scientific progress.
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran does &quot;not need&quot; talks with the United States over its nuclear program because nothing would be gained, state television reported Tuesday.
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TEHRAN : Iran refused to give up on producing enriched uranium in defiance of the West and said dialogue was the only way to resolve the nuclear standoff, on the eve of talks with the EU&#39;s Big Three.
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On the eve of talks with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Iran's nuclear negotiator Wednesday rejected the possibility of Iran suspending its uranium enrichment program.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Iran wanted talks to continue to remove the West's concerns over its nuclear program but said Tehran would not abandon its right to make nuclear fuel.
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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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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Wednesday that sanctions will not stop Iran from enriching uranium after a European negotiator conceded "endless hours" of talks had made little progress and suggested the dispute could wind up at the U.N. soon.
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator said on  Monday talks, not threats, would resolve a standoff over a  nuclear program Washington says is a cover for developing  atomic weapons.
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Iran's president says he wants talks on his nation's nuclear programme, but rules out pre-conditions set by the UN.
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Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology despite the threat of more sanctions, Iran told France in a letter published on Monday, a day before talks to try to defuse the atomic row with the West.
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Iran says it will continue talks with Britain, Frances and Germany over their proposed package of incentives, but will not agree to an indefinite suspension of its nuclear enrichment activities.
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Iran has said that it is not obliged to accept the United Nation&#39;s demands that it freeze all activities related to uranium enrichment.
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TEHRAN -- Iran will never scrap its nuclear program, and talks with Europeans are intended to protect the country's atomic achievements, not negotiate an end to them, an Iranian official said yesterday.
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French President Jacques Chirac says talks, not UN sanctions, are the way to resolve the Iran nuclear crisis.
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Iran said on Monday it was willing to negotiate with European nations the length of its uranium enrichment suspension but will never renounce its right to carry out the process which can be used to make atom bombs.
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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.