Iran Refuses to Give Up Nuclear Research-Diplomats
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Iran intends to use Monday's talks with  France, Britain and Germany to ensure it has the right to go on  carrying out research with equipment that could be used to  develop nuclear weapons, Western diplomats said.
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Iran will never dismantle its nuclear programmes but is ready to give assurances that its uranium enrichment activities will not be diverted for weapons technology, a senior Iranian negotiator told AFP on Wednesday.
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Iran is unlikely to accept European incentives aimed at getting it to suspend uranium enrichment, diplomats said Thursday, raising the prospect of a showdown next
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The European Union cannot force Iran to give up its right to enrich uranium, Iran's foreign minister said, dealing a blow to EU efforts to halt the process and ease fears Tehran is seeking a nuclear bomb.
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Iran turned away U.N. inspectors from an underground site meant to shelter its uranium enrichment program from attack, diplomats said Monday, while the country's supreme leader insisted Tehran will not give up its contentious nuclear technology.
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Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology despite the threat of more sanctions, it told France in a letter published on Monday, a day before talks to try to defuse its row with the West.
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Iran has requested that it be permitted to continue conducting &quot;research and development&quot; with centrifuges, machines that can be used to develop material for nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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Iran backs down on its demand to exempt some of its technology from a nuclear freeze, diplomats say.
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Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives.
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Diplomats say the EU has refused a request by Tehran to modify its agreement to freeze uranium enrichment.
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Iran rejects a new European bid to make it abandon nuclear work but insists it is not pursuing atomic weapons.
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Iran's decision to keep preparing raw uranium for enrichment, a step on the way to making nuclear weapons, breaks the spirit though not the letter of its pledge to freeze all such activity, diplomats said on 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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Iran has not agreed to an offer by the European Union to receive nuclear technology in exchange for abandoning its uranium enrichment program, but it will consider the proposal, an Iranian official said on Thursday.
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President Khatami says Iran will never give up nuclear technology, as US pressure on Tehran continues to rise.
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(Tehran, Iran-AP) Oct. 18, 2004 - Iranian diplomats will not negotiate Tehran&#39;s nuclear program if the goal is to stop enriching uranium.
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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.