Iran Welcomes Showdown on Deadline Day
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Iran's president defiantly refused to compromise as a U.N. deadline for his country to stop enriching uranium arrived Thursday, saying Tehran would not be bullied into giving up its right to nuclear technology.
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TEHRAN -- Iran said yesterday a preliminary agreement reached between Iran and the European Union's three big powers may be finalized soon, but hard-liners criticized the deal and called on the government to ignore calls to keep suspending nuclear activities.
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Iran's supreme leader made clear on Thursday the time had not yet arrived to restore relations with the United States, the Islamic state's arch foe, but suggested it may happen one day.
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Iran on Tuesday dismissed threats to make it drop its nuclear program and offered to guarantee in negotiations that it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Iran's negotiations with the European Union over a deal which would spare Tehran from possible U.N. sanctions are in their final stages, Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Saturday.
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Iran said it would meet the European  Union's Monday deadline for suspending uranium enrichment and  allay fears it was trying to make a nuclear bomb -- the freeze  could spare it from U.N. sanctions.
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Iran said Sunday it was seriously considering incentives to halt its nuclear program and that the United States and other nations should be patient about getting a response.
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Iran said it would meet the European Union&#39;s Monday deadline for suspending uranium enrichment and allay fears it was trying to make a nuclear bomb -- the freeze could spare it from UN sanctions.
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran is ready to hold more talks with the United States over stabilizing Iraq, the state-run news agency reported.
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Iran dismissed on Tuesday threats of force to make it back down over its nuclear program and said only negotiations -- without the precondition that it stop enriching uranium -- could resolve the dispute.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (IPS) - After months of bickering over arbitrary deadlines,  the Iranian government delivered its long-awaited response to the  P5+1 package punctually on the eve of its self-imposed deadline  Tuesday.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator has expressed optimism after two days of talks with the European Union, saying he was hopeful of a positive result if discussions continued in the same vein.
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Iran yielded to western pressure yesterday to freeze its uranium enrichment programme, but only after several days of confrontation with the EU and after Britain, Germany, and France came up with a verbal formula much more generous to Tehran than
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should not show weakness over its nuclear program, a day after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says could to used for making bombs.
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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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Tehran - Iranian officials said on Wednesday they will not cede to international demands for the Islamic republic to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment activities, saying they were ready for confrontation or negotiation.
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Iran on Tuesday defied international calls for it to stop enriching uranium, a day before a U.N. deadline for it to back down.