Iran defiant on nuclear freeze
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IRAN&#39;S top national security official said yesterday Tehran had agreed to only a temporary freeze of its controversial nuclear fuel activities and would never totally abandon its uranium enrichment work.
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Iran brushed off threats intended to make it freeze its nuclear program as a U.N. deadline to do so fell due on Wednesday, but offered to guarantee it would not seek atomic weapons.
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Iran vows to defend its nuclear activities to the end, as world powers prepare for talks on more sanctions.
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Iran reiterated Tuesday it was only  prepared to keep its uranium enrichment activities frozen for a  few months and would not, as the EU and Washington want,  permanently mothball facilities which could make atomic bombs.
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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 promised to meet Monday's deadline  for suspending a uranium enrichment process that could be used  for making nuclear weapons -- a freeze that could spare it U.N.  Security Council sanctions.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Iran would never yield to international pressure to suspend its uranium enrichment work.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad maintained Iran's right to nuclear technology Thursday -- the day of a U.N. deadline to roll back on its nuclear program or face sanctions.
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Iran will not suspend its uranium enrichment work as demanded by a U.N. sanctions resolution, the country's top nuclear official said on Sunday in the latest statement of defiance from Tehran as a U.N. deadline looms.
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TEHRAN  - Iran&#39;s top national security official said that Tehran had only agreed to a temporary freeze of its controversial nuclear fuel activities and would never totally abandon its uranium enrichment work.
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Iran rejected on Sunday a resolution  from the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it should freeze uranium  enrichment, its chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said.
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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, the key U.N. demand in a nuclear row with Tehran, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the day before talks with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
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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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Iran wants talks on its nuclear program but rejects preconditions demanding it freeze work that the West believes is being used to make atomic bombs, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
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Iran's hard-line president on Thursday again rejected demands that Tehran suspend uranium enrichment, even as top Iranian and European diplomats sounded somewhat optimistic about making progress toward starting negotiations.
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Iran reiterates that it will not give up uranium enrichment on the eve of talks with the European Union.
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Iran has said there was no reason to suspend its nuclear activities, maintaining a tough line despite talks with the European Union aimed at persuading Tehran to halt uranium enrichment.