Iran Wants to Change Conditions of Freeze
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Iran is seeking a last-minute exception to its commitment to stop all uranium enrichment activities by demanding the right to operate around two dozen centrifuges, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator acknowledged on Wednesday that Tehran was in talks to renew its freeze of some sensitive nuclear activities.
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VIENNA -- Iran insisted yesterday that it had a right to exempt some equipment from an agreement with the European Union committing it to freeze all parts of a program that can make nuclear weapons-grade uranium, a move that diplomats said threatened to scuttle the deal.
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Iran on Monday froze sensitive nuclear  work including uranium enrichment in a move likely to thwart  U.S. efforts to report the Islamic state to the UN Security  Council for possible sanctions.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency's  board of governors passed a resolution on Saturday demanding  that Iran freeze all activities related to uranium enrichment,  a diplomat present at closed-door meeting said.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday that demands from the U.N. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment - technology that can be used for nuclear weapons - were "illegal."   Hasan Rowhani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, said at a news conference that his country would nonetheless continue with its voluntary suspension of what he described as "actual enrichment" - the injection of uranium gas into centrifuges...
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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 has been seeking to exclude some uranium enrichment experiments from a nuclear freeze it agreed with three European governments this month, western diplomats said yesterday.
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Iran will announce its final decision later on Sunday on an EU proposal that it freeze sensitive nuclear work in return for avoiding referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, local news agencies reported.
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Iran on Monday froze sensitive nuclear work including uranium enrichment in a move likely to thwart US efforts to report the Islamic state to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
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Iran said on Friday it might extend its  partial freeze of uranium enrichment in order to ease Western  fears about its nuclear ambitions but a U.S. official dismissed  this as a ploy to fend off tough U.N. action.
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unable to reach an agreement with Iran on freezing the country&#39;s uranium enrichment program, because Iran refuses to retract its demand to continue operating 20 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, which it claims are for research and development purposes.
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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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VIENNA -- Iran failed yesterday to give a definitive answer to an EU demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities or face referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, a diplomat familiar with the talks said.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator  acknowledged on Wednesday that Tehran was in talks to renew its  freeze of some sensitive nuclear activities.
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Iran sought yesterday to partially roll back its commitment to freeze all uranium enrichment programs, demanding the right to run some equipment that can be used to produce nuclear arms.
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Iran has agreed in principle to renew a  freeze of some sensitive nuclear activities in a move  apparently aimed at easing pressure ahead of a U.N. nuclear  watchdog meeting next week, diplomats said Tuesday.