Iran gives early date for reactor
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Iran says its Bushehr nuclear plant will start work in the summer - earlier than its Russian builders had said.
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Iran on Thursday said it plans to press ahead with construction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor the U.S. and its allies fear could be used to produce plutonium to build atomic weapons hours after the U.N. nuclear watchdog denied Tehran help in building it.
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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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Description: Diplomats say Iran is preparing large amounts of uranium for enrichment, just before the deadline it agreed on to freeze all such activities.
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Iran will not respond to incentives to halt its nuclear program before mid-July, at least two weeks past the date sought by the U.S. and its partners, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday after meeting Iran&#039;s foreign minister.
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Iran will delay the planned start-up of its first nuclear reactor until 2006, a year later than previously scheduled, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Iran will soon announce an international tender for building 19 nuclear power plants, an MP was quoted as saying, a week after Russia said it had begun fuel deliveries to the Islamic state's first such facility.
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Iran has announced a further substantial delay in the long overdue project to complete its first nuclear power plant, which Washington claims is being used to develop weapons.
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VIENNA, OCTOBER 6: Iran began processing uranium more than a week ago to prepare it for enrichment - a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons â-n defiance of the United Nationsâ nuclear watchdog, a diplomat said on Wednesday.
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The atomic reactor Russia is building   for Iran at Bushehr is scheduled to start up in September next   year, Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia's atomic energy agency,   said on Friday.
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No date has been fixed for completing Iran's first nuclear power plant but Russia is serious about finishing the long-delayed project, Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
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Iran is preparing large amounts of uranium for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons, days before its promise to freeze all such activities takes effect, Western diplomats said on Friday.
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TEHRAN, Iran  - A uranium conversion facility in Iran is nearing completion, a top official said Sunday, only days after European countries offered a deal in which Iran would reportedly have to give up all nuclear activities.
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Iran will press ahead with its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on the day of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment activities.
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Tehran is confident of reaching a  negotiated settlement over its nuclear program, a senior  Iranian diplomat said in Tokyo on Thursday, as the United  Nations nuclear watchdog seemed set to report that Iran had  defied a deadline to halt atomic fuel work.
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VIENNA (Austria): Iran is to decide within two or three days whether to honour a UN call to fully suspend enriching uranium or to resume this key part of the nuclear fuel cycle.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali   Khamenei said on Monday Iran would press ahead with its pursuit   of nuclear energy, indicating it will not heed a U.N. demand it   stop enriching uranium or face possible sanctions.