Threatened with UN sanctions, Iran bows to demands for nuclear suspension
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Iran agreed to suspend &quot;nearly all&quot; of its uranium enrichment-related activities as part of a deal with Britain, France and Germany in a step that eases the threat of possible UN sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme.
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Iran has agreed to a full suspension of uranium enrichment in line with an agreement worked out with the European Union, ending a deadlock over answering US charges that Tehran is secretly developing nuclear weapons, diplomats close to the talks told AFP.
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Iran has tentatively agreed to freeze some of its sensitive nuclear activities, diplomats said today. The news comes as the country attempts to head off US efforts to report its nuclear programme to the UN security council.
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Iran&#39;s supreme leader threatened yesterday to pull out of negotiations with European countries if they press their demand that Iran totally suspend uranium enrichment.
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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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VIENNA -- Facing fierce international pressure, Iran backed off yesterday from its demand to be allowed to continue operating some uranium enrichment equipment, salvaging a deal with the UN's atomic watchdog agency that nonproliferation officials hope would curb Tehran's alleged nuclear ambitions.
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Iran's president voiced defiance on Wednesday as world powers prepared to put the finishing touches to new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying his country would not surrender.
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VIENNA -- Iran's supreme leader threatened to pull out of negotiations if European countries press their demand for total suspension of uranium enrichment, as a new round of talks ended yesterday without an agreement to avert the possible threat of UN sanctions.
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Iran pledged Sunday to meet its deadline and suspend its uranium enrichment activities on Monday, in a sign of cooperation even as the United States has been stepping up pressure over the country&#39;s nuclear program.
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Iran on Thursday shrugged off the latest punitive U.N. action &#151; suspension of nearly two dozen nuclear aid programs &#151; and showed no signs it was cowed by the possibility of even tougher penalties in the form of new Security Council sanctions.
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The UN watchdog passes a resolution calling on Iran to suspend all activities related to uranium enrichment.
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After a week of delicate negotiations, the International Atomic Energy Agency&#39;s ruling body has adopted a resolution calling for Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities.
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Iran submitted a written statement to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN unclear watchdog, on 14 October stating that it would fully suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
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The U.N. atomic monitor on Friday suspended nearly half the technical aid it provides to Iran, a symbolically significant punishment for nuclear defiance that only North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq had faced in the past.
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Iran has suspended its uranium enrichment programs, Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said here Monday.
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Iran stressed Sunday its commitment to voluntary suspension of uranium enrichment, but warned against hauling Tehran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran backed down in the face of fierce international pressure on Friday and dropped a demand for changes to a key agreement designed to reassure the world that Tehran does not want nuclear weapons, Western diplomats said.