Iran signals refusal of nuclear freeze: EU diplomat
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Iran has indicated to European Union  foreign policy chief Javier Solana it will not freeze its most  sensitive nuclear work and major powers will consult later this  week on sanctions, a European diplomat said on Wednesday.
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Iran on Sunday rejected a deadline set by the European Union for Iran to clear itself on the nuclear activities and said it would make no concession on its right ofpeaceful nuclear technology.
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Iran vowed not to cave in to international pressure over its nuclear plans, as the European Union lamented a lack of progress in talks on a Western offer to defuse the standoff.
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Iran announced last night that it was freezing all operations connected with uranium enrichment in a diplomatic victory for the European Union and a move that should spare Tehran being sent to the UN security council.
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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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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 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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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&#39;s answer on to a European Union (EU) demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear work such as uranium enrichment has been described as not too disappointing but not completely definitive by an EU diplomat familiar with the talks.
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Iran said on Saturday it would reject  any proposal to halt uranium enrichment, a step European Union  diplomats are proposing to end a row over whether Iran is  seeking atomic weapons.
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In the eyes of six world powers, Iran  has failed to meet a U.N. Security Council demand that it  suspend uranium enrichment, a senior European Union diplomat  said, in a move which could pave the way for sanctions.
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TEHRAN Iran on Sunday rejected an order by the International Atomic Energy Agency to freeze its nuclear enrichment programs and warned that it would drop out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if its case was sent to the United Nations Security Council
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The European Union believes Iran is unlikely to negotiate seriously on its nuclear programme and there is little the West can do to stop it developing an atomic bomb, according to an internal document.
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Talks between Iran and the European Union on a package of incentives designed to defuse the standoff over Tehran&#039;s atomic program will not be held as scheduled on Wednesday, an Iranian official said.
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Western diplomats said on Saturday they remained hopeful the European Union and Iran would reach a final accord on freezing key parts of Tehran's nuclear program, despite fresh remarks by Iran's foreign minister.
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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 on Wednesday.
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Iran has agreed to avoid setting a firm deadline for talks with the European Union on its nuclear programme and could maintain its freeze of uranium enrichment activities until at least mid-year.